Fernandez, Steven — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: 8.5.1

Description

Public and commercial application of NOAA developed products such as climate observations, weather products, and datasets are underutilized by public decision makers, infrastructure asset owners, or the public. Communities realize the risk posed by increases in storm intensity, flooding, and heat waves. However, communities lack understandable models targets to stakeholder questions that are affordable, on-demand, interactive, and understandable. Almeria Analytics’ (AA) in partnership with Street Legal Industries (SLI) propose a system based on the Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system. AA principals are inventors of VERDE (developed over the last decade at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and AA is obtaining licenses for the VERDE patents to be available early in the Phase I period of performance. VERDE combines situation awareness and modeling to provide a web-streaming platform based on open geospatial standards and issues look-ahead forecasts and analysis. Phase I deliverables include establishing the feasibility of the service simultaneously to workstations, smartphones and tablets. The Website in Phase I will gather requirements from user focus groups and demonstrate technical feasibility. Phase II objectives will include communication of critical analytic data to University of Tennessee partners and identified new desirable functions for the Phase II deliverable.