IMPROVING AVIATION LLC — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: 9.2
IMPROVING AVIATION LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $149,834
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 9.2
- Solicitation
- NOAA-OAR-OAR-TPO-2022-2007117
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2022-09-01 → 2023-02-28
Description
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.