SBIR/STTR Research Award
Automatic Detection of Hydrothermal Vents
Award amount
$124,977Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- White River Technologies Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2018-01-09
- UEI
- YXJZN4BVTC86
- Solicitation number
- 2017.0
- Topic code
- N17A-T028
Research abstract
White River Technologies (WRT) propose this effort to develop and demonstrate an automated sensor system for the detection and discrimination of undersea hydrothermal vents. The Navy is interested in utilizing the energy from hydrothermal vents. Prior to being able to exploit this potential energy source, the hydrothermal vents must be located and mapped. Currently detection and mapping of vents is performed from surface ships. We propose an integrated, automated sensing solution for detecting, discriminating, and mapping hydrothermal vents utilizing a UUV platform.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Magnetometer Data Processing for Subsea Noise Mitigation and Object Detection
- Remotely Operated Vehicle Non-acoustic Sensing Array For Obscured Littoral Seabed Threats
- Remotely Operated Vehicle Non-acoustic Sensing Array For Obscured Littoral Seabed Threats
- Low Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWAP-C) Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) System
- Scalable Geophysical Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
27 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2014–2025). Reported award amounts total $13,193,337. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Transportation