SBIR/STTR Research Award
AN AIRBORNE IMAGING RADIOMETER FOR THE DETECTION OF NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS
Award amount
$499,900Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Ophir Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- KBW8KJC952H4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
AN AIRBORNE IMAGING RADIOMETER IS NEEDED TO DETECT, MONITOR, AND QUANTITATIVELY ANALYZE GREENHOUSE GASES AND NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS. BY PROJECTING FALSE COLOR IMAGES (INDICATING NATURAL GAS CONCENTRATION) ONTO STANDARD VIDEO IMAGES OF THE OBSERVED TERRAIN, THIS RADIOMETER PINPOINTS THE LOCATION OF GAS EMISSION SOURCES, THE EXTENT OF GAS DISTRIBUTION THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE, AND THE TOTAL EMITTED GAS QUANTITY. PHASE I OF THIS PROJECT INCLUDES MODELING OF THE OPTICAL RADIATION GENERATION, ITS PROPAGATION THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE, AND ITS PROPAGATION THROUGH THE PROPOSED SENSOR COMPONENTS. THIS MODELING WILL BE USED TO SELECT AN OPTIMAL SENSOR DESIGN AND TO ESTIMATE SENSOR PERFORMANCE UNDER ACTUAL FIELD CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION, A PRELIMINARY PROTOTYPE SENSOR DESIGN WILL BE PERFORMED FOR PHASE II CONSTRUCTION AND FIELD TESTING.
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 LIDAR for Mapping Dense Aerosols
- Multifunction Lidar for Air Data and Kinetic Air Hazard Measurement
- Multifunction Lidar for Air Data and Kinetic Air Hazard Measurement
- Low Cost, Compact, Direct Detection Wind and Temperature Lidar for Measurements in the Boundary Layer
- Low-Cost, Compact, Multi Directional Low Airspeed Indicator for Rotary Wing Aircraft
Research funding history
66 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2014). Reported award amounts total $11,986,589. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Commerce