SBIR/STTR Research Award
Compact System for Long-Range Localization of Lightning Events, With Identification of Fire-Igniting Continuing Current Strikes
Award amount
$79,962Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- QUANTUM APPLIED SCIENCE & RESEARCH INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- GWGDBN4PE928
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Most lightning-caused wildfires are ignited by continuing current lightning. The National Lightning Detection Network is currently unable to distinguish between continuing current and conventional lightning events. The purpose of this project will be to design a prototype that can determine the magnitude of the current in order to set a threshold for events strong enough to be a fire hazard. The determing of the continuing current lightning with new technology will enable year-round identification of lightning events likely to cause a fire.
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.
- Cognitive Health Impact and Physiological Sensors (CHIPS) Helmet, Phase II
- Cognitive Health Impact and Physiological Sensors (CHIPS) Helmet
- Dry Electrode Flight helmet Integrated Eeg System (DEFIES), Phase II
- A Dry Electrode for Universal Accessibility to EEG
- Neonatal EEG MOnitor (NEMO) Phase IIb
Research funding history
68 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $29,034,619. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture