ARETE ASSOCIATES — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: 8.3.2D
ARETE ASSOCIATES — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $94,952
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 8.3.2D
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2015-09-13 → 2016-03-13
Description
Areté Associates proposes the Coastal Eyes, a multi-mission sensor system to respond to NOAA’s core mission objectives for coastal emergency management measurements to map land and surface water topography over coastal, waterways and fresh water regions; surface (fresh and oceans) currents, debris detections and storm surges. Areté will develop a responsive, cost-effective sensor solution, which will sue enabling algorithms developed by Areté to meet this need. Coastal Eyes includes an innovative 3D SAR processor that uses a COTS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for topographic measurements over wide-swaths; the current retrieval capability of Areté’s RiverEye and the commercial Remote Ocean Current Imaging System (ROCIS). Coastal Eyes also integrates the Pushbroom Imaging Littoral LIDAR (PILLS), a compact LIDAR developed by Areté, witch a Standard SAR, and with a real-time processor to produce a responsive solution to quickly provide actionable results to the user.