SBIR/STTR Research Award
A SUBVISIBLE VOLCANIC DUST CLOUD IMAGER
Award amount
$75,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A DESIGN FOR A PROTOTYPE AIRBORNE, REMOTE, SUBVISIBLE VOLCANIC DUST CLOUD SENSOR. THIS INNOVATIVE, COMPACT INSTRUMENT IS BASED ON A PASSIVE, TUNEABLE, INFRARED, IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER. THE SENSOR EXPLOITS DIFFERENCES IN THE PARTICLE ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS BETWEEN SILICON DIOXIDE (SIO2) AND WATER IN THE 8 TO 12 MUM REGION TO SENSITIVELY DETECT AND DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN HAZARDOUS DUST CLOUDS AND NONHAZARDOUS NATURAL WATER CLOUDS BY THEIR THERMAL SELF-EMISSION. THIS INSTRUMENT WILL HAVE THE SENSITIVITY TO PROVIDE THIS DISCRIMINATION AT DISTANCES OF OVER 15 MILES. THE PHASE I EFFORT INCLUDES AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT DESIGN AND LABORATORY VALIDATION EXPERIMENTS.
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.
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency