SBIR/STTR Research Award
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Diode Laser Sensor for Methane
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-05-18
- Contract end date
- 2017-05-17
- UEI
- Y7BFRF1G8539
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.07
Research abstract
An aircraft system for detecting ambient methane will be developed in this project. The system will use a diode laser to perform a wavelength modulation absorption measurement of this greenhouse gas. The optical system will feature a open path system that is mounted outside the aircraft. The system will make measurements at a 10 Hz rate.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Low Power Sensor for Measurement of Multiple Trace Gases
- High speed measurements of velocity, temperature and water content in hypersonic flows
- Low Power Instrumentation for Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces
- Low Power Instrumentation for Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces
- Diode Laser Hygrometer and Thermometer for Aerial Vehicles
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Widely Tunable Semiconductor Laser at 1650nm for Greenhouse Gas LIDAR Detection
- Rugged Multigas Sensor for Planetary Missions
- Monolithic Chip-Integrated Absorption Spectrometer from 3-5 microns
- Coded Aperture Techniques for High-Throughput Imaging Spectroscopy
- Instrument for Airborne Measurement of Carbonyl Sulfide
Research funding history
258 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $60,611,964. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services