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Prescribed burns are a critical aspect of land management, but they require vegetation data that is hard to obtain at high resolution and on the timescale required. Our autonomous UAV collects critical fire modeling variables through subcanopy flight, enabling rapid surveys for faster and safer burn planning. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of mapping live fuel moisture content (LFMC) with s ...

Low level meteorological data over the world’s oceans is hard to collect, due to the cost and difficulty of sensor emplacement. Crewed aircraft are deployed when major weather events arise, but between those major weather events, in-situ data sources are very limited. Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) present a unique opportunity to inexpensively collect meteorological data from remote areas, but ...

"The Aerielle SONAR UAS Phase II proposal is in response to Topic 9.4.01, “Unmanned Aircraft System: Rapid Response for Natural Disaster” and proposes to improve and further develop the “Aerielle” with a Humminbird underwater sonar imaging commonly used by emergency responders. The goal of the Aerielle SONAR UAS was to perform SONAR scanning of underwater structures for hazardous debris id ...

The vision of a Weather-Ready Nation is achieved through the synthesis of the large number of NOAA products and services into meaningful and actionable information for community stakeholders and individual populations. Many community stakeholders such as school administrators find themselves in high-stakes weather-related decision-making situations where they are left to their self-interpretation ...

Alphacore will develop an Intermediate Frequency (IF) Conversion System for High-Bandwidth Multiplexed Sensors Arrays for Phase II of NIST's 2018 soliciation for Exploratory Measurement Science Topic 9.04.02.68.The proposing team has already successfully developed and evaluated a prototype board in Phase I.The goal in Phase II is therefore to achieve three primary objectives:1) Optimize the design ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: The Hybrid Quadrotor concept, developed by Latitude Engineering, combines the high power density of electric motors and propellers with the high energy density of a piston engine and liquid fuel. Together, each technology enables maximum performance in HQ's two regimes of flight: the electric system is responsible for lift while hovering (high power, short endurance), and the g ...

Capro-X, Inc. is a biotechnology company that was founded in 2017 with the goal of decreasing the expense and environmental impact associated with the handling of dairy production wastes and byproducts. Using a novel fermentation process, called the WheyAway, Capro-X converts lactose-containing dairy industry process streams into treated water and a mixture of valuable fatty acid chemicals. The Wh ...

Lightning impacts many aspects of our daily lives and is responsible for billions of dollars in property and industry losses every year. This Phase II effort proposes the development of a lightning services API using data from the GOES-R Series Geostationary Lighting Mapper (GLM) and the development of short-term lightning prediction products including lightning initiation and lightning cessation. ...

The product to be delivered based on this innovation is a neutron scattering sample environment that enables efficient neutron scattering measurements of biopolymer solutions at high pressure. The proposed high-throughput, high-pressure small-angle neutron scattering (HTHP-SANS) sample environment addresses key customer needs and provides substantial advantages to both the scientific user ...

How Glass SCMs Solve the Market Need. The process of producing cement has remained unchanged since the industrial revolution. Concrete producers need a new high performing cement alternative to lower their concrete products' cost and embodied carbon. Otherwise, we will be building our future communities using a process with the environmental and financial costs of 1820s technology. This project wi ...