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Project SummaryAccumulated snowpack is a major source of water throughout the United States. Accuratelymonitoring snow on the northern plains is a significant need for streamflow forecasting andreservoir management. This has been demonstrated by the US Army Corp of Engineersestablishment of the Upper Missouri River Basin Plains Snow and Soil Moisture MonitoringNetwork. The availability of a low-co ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. An ever present and fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping to quickly locate and correctly identify targets from vast quantities of image data. Despi ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. A fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. De ...

Topic 8.6 Rural Development Subtopic 2: Development of New Services November 3 2021Proposal: "Mobile PET Plastic Ocean Waste Recycler (POWER) Module" PIN 21-06FIELD 7. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACTThe Opportunity.Alaska's beaches are covered with hundreds of tons of Plastic Ocean Waste (POW)that has been deposited into the water from a myriad of counties including Russia Japan Korea Chinaand the United ...

The project's goal is to enable machine learning ("AI") enabled pollinator ID and behavior detectionon agricultural producer lands where detection units send insect IDs and behavior counts back tothe producer. Our objective is to build on an existing USDA open-source automated insectidentification device that can already send machine vision results back to the farmer.All camera-based computer visi ...

Satellite and airborne platforms provide timely, detailed, and readily available still and full-motion imagery to support U.S. national security. A constant requirement for this type of data is automated object detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. This requirement is made more challenging when a ...

The goal of this project is to develop a business to produce and sell Deep Ocean Water (DOW)as a nutraceutical beverage in one or more coastal Alaska communities.DOW is seawater atobtained ocean depths of 250-1500 meters.It has these characteristics: low temperature highpurity and high concentrations (relative to surface seawater and to most mineral waters) ofbeneficial mineral nutrients.This appl ...

Broilers (birds produced for poultry meat) provide a very significant percentageof the global food supply.In 2018 the worldwide production of broilers was 98.4 million tons.The U.S.produced around 19 million tons of total broiler production with 3.3 million tons of this being sold asfood export(s).Export demands are growing due to population increases and loss of broilers overseasfrom Highly Patho ...

In this proposal we will take an interdisciplinary approach combining expertise in wheat geneticsand genomics with expertise in fungal insect pathogens to demonstrate feasibility of selectingendophytic entomopathogenic fungal strains effective for controlling both wheat stem sawfly andFusarium head blight. The project builds on previous research isolating endophytic fungalpathogens from infected s ...

The goal of our Phase I USDA-NIFA research contract was to develop a prototype Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) sensor and companion techniques that provide high-resolution snow property estimates to improve forecasting of water resources for agriculture and public consumption mountain weather avalanches floods and hydropower. Our measurement techniques involved the use of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar t ...