SBIR/STTR Research Award
Soil profile water content sensing system based on TDR
Award amount
$450,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Acclima, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NMMBC7FHARJ7
- Solicitation number
- USDA-NIFA-SBIR-003621
- Topic code
- 8.4
Research abstract
Researchers who develop high water use efficiency plants are in great need of precisely monitoring the uptake of water by their prototype plants at various segments of its root zone. They need to know how each plant variation utilizes water in producing food and from where the water is drawn. Currently they have no accurate options for getting this data. This device will provide a new, accurate tool for studying the water use efficiency and zone of water consumption of various developing plant types. This will increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of developing high water use efficient plants. In other uses the device can provide accurate soil water monitoring for controlling crop irrigation - thus conserving large amounts of irrigation water.
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.
- A Novel Thermo-Time Domain Reflectometer for Unprecedented Soil Property Determination
- SBIR Phase I: Low-cost Time-domain Reflectometer for Soil Water Content Reporting in Precision Agriculture
- Soil profile water content sensing system based on TDR
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Flow-cell Assisted Ion Removal and Recovery (FAIR2) Technology for Efficient Nutrient Management of Hydroponic Wastewater
- In situ, radio frequency detection and analysis of microplastics in environmental water
- Reimagining Water Resources for Agriculture with a Targeted Salinity Reduction Device
- Utilizing Recyclable Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (RMNPs) for PFAS Removal from Agricultural Systems
- An innovative biobased, biodegradable fertilizer encapsulation for improved water quality, better soil health, and nutrient use efficiency
Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2011–2018). Reported award amounts total $799,395. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation