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Space based and In-situ measurement of pre-season soil moisture and land surface temperature to estimate wildfire extent and risk

Awardee

VEGA MX INC.

17 Chapel Hill Ct
Sparta, NJ, 07871-2743
USA

Award Year: 2024

UEI: VMASRMVXA3J3

HUBZone Owned: Yes

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes

Congressional District: 11

Tagged as:

SBIR

Phase I

Seal of the Agency: DOC

Awarding Agency

DOC

Branch: NOAA

Total Award Amount: $174,790

Contract Number: NA24OARX021G0005

Agency Tracking Number: 3217188

Solicitation Topic Code: 9.1

Solicitation Number: NOAA-OAR-TPO-2024-2008184

Abstract

Understanding the coupling among drought, water content of the soil, and forest fires is essential in the fire risk study framework. In this context, improved wildfires prediction tools, such as risk, severity, burnt area, are urgently needed and in this work, the use of remotely sensed and in-situ sensed Soil Moisture (SM) data, as well as Land Surface Temperature (LST) as key variables in the climate-wildfires relationship is explored. Therefore a vital need is to increase the quantity and quality of available information at relevant spatiotemporal scales, which will be accomplished through an integrated Space and Ground Sensing grid for estimating SM, LST, and other climate variables. Space data will consist of commercial data spanning Superspectral, Thermal IR, hyperspectral, SAR (microwave radar) as well as data provided by NASA Use of Funding: 1.Understand the relationship between soil moisture and land surface temperature on wildfire risk and burnt area through statistical and AI / Deep learning methods 2. Determine stakeholder information requirements 3. Develop a real-time simulation window to disseminate ensembled model results to the users. Deliverables: Analytical Software, Report & Training to Fire Agencies Target Markets : Power and Utilities, Insurance and Banking, Wildfire Agencies, Space Agencies, Government & Land Management. There are adjacent markets such as Agriculture, Meteorology, Military Mobility that will gain from the development of this subject.

Award Schedule

  1. 2024
    Solicitation Year

  2. 2024
    Award Year

  3. August 1, 2024
    Award Start Date

  4. January 31, 2025
    Award End Date

Principal Investigator

Name: Vivek Mital
Phone: 3477021659
Email: vivekmital180@gmail.com

Business Contact

Name: Vivek Mital
Phone: 3477021659
Email: vivekmital180@gmail.com

Research Institution

Name: N/A