SBIR/STTR Research Award
Nowcasting wildfire ember risk in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) with WindTL
Award amount
$149,834Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Recipient company
- IMPROVING AVIATION LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-09-01
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-28
- UEI
- XET9LF1AYMD9
- Solicitation number
- NOAA-OAR-OAR-TPO-2022-2007117
- Topic code
- 9.2
Research abstract
Atmospheric processes in the atmospheric boundary layer significantly influence the behavior of wildfires. Temporal and spatial variability of fine-scale winds at fire fronts play a key role in controlling the rate of fi re spread. Available wind information from satellites and numerical weather prediction models does not meet the need for the temporal and spatial resolution for precise modeling of wildfires, especially the fi re spread through ember dispersal within wildland-urban interfaces (WUI). We propose a fully automated wind observing system, "WindTL", that allows measurements of local velocity components and their statistics close to the fire front.
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.
- Target Acquisition and Guidance System (TAGS) for Wildfire Response
- Target Acquisition and Guidance System (TAGS) for Wildfire Response
- Nowcasting wildfire ember risk in the WUI with WindTL
- Portable Traffic Management Tool for Wildfire Operations
- Analysis and Reporting Tool to Semi-Automate Product Generation and Mission Reporting & Assessment
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Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2022–2025). Reported award amounts total $2,996,477. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce