SBIR/STTR Research Award
Glidersonde, a Meteorological Optical Profiling Sensor
Award amount
$124,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- YANKEE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-02-13
- Contract end date
- 2012-08-13
- UEI
- U54KJSNGEQN1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S3.08
Research abstract
The "Glidersonde"is a UAV-deployed environmental sensor suite that is air-deployed and glides into denied or hazardous areas including volcanoes or nuclear emergency, wildland fire or HAZMAT release areas. It can either be released by hand or used with Yankee's commercial Automated Dropsonde Dispenser (ADD) which we tested in the Navy Twin Otter P256, and is and is currently undergoing integration with NASA's Global Hawk for a 2012 test. It measures local scattering, cloud optical depth, ground/sea surface temperatures, SOx, nuclear radiation, aerosol optical depth, as well as in-situ pressure/temperature/humidity/winds like a NCAR RD-94 dropsonde.
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.
- Smokesonde: Low cost in-situ sampling of smoke and convective storm intensity supporting fire weather and incident meteorology
- Guidesonde: Targeting Meteorological Dropsonde with Optical and In-Situ Sensors
- Atmospheric Characterization for Directed Energy Applications
- STTR Phase I: Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum for Learning, NSF11-561
- Miniature Air Launched Rawinsonde and Dropsonde (MALRD)
Awards with the same topic code
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- Miniaturized Spacecraft Platform for Command, Data Handling and Electronics
- Rad-Hard Embedded Processing SIP
- Fast Light Enhanced Active Gyroscopes, Accelerometers and Fiber- Optic Sensors
- Ultra-Compact Slow-Light Enhanced Multiband Spectral Interferometer
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2023). Reported award amounts total $12,837,256. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration