Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$250,000.00
Mar 25, 2014
13STFAYO08: This project entitled «A Balloon-based Demonstrator for the PHEOS- Weather, Climate and Air Quality Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (IFTS)» has the objective(s) :
New instrument for the measurement of Arctic temperature and pressure profiles: The Canadian government is considering the development of a polar, highly elliptical satellite mission (Polar Communications and Weather, or PCW) to provide communications and weather information in the Arctic. A potential augmentation to this mission complement is the addition of a science package that would provide information about the composition of the atmosphere, temperature and pressure profiles, and measurements related to air quality in the Arctic. In addition, carbon dioxide and methane, important greenhouse gases, would also be measured. This project is intended to fund the development and increase the technical readiness level of the instruments that would provide these measurements on PCW.
$69,718.00
Jan 22, 2014
13SSTGHGSA: This project entitled «GHGSat-D ADCS Panning Mode» has the objective(s) :
The primary objective of the project is the development of the ADCS Panning Mode of the GHGSat-D satellite with a planned launch date in the second half of 2015. ""Panning mode"" is a spacecraft attitude control mode that is required for GHGSat-D payload observations. Panning mode is similar to a ground target tracking mode in that both modes aim to control the spacecraft attitude with respect to fixed locations on the Earth's surface. In target tracking mode the aim is to keep the ground target stationary in the instrument field of view (“FOV”), ideally at the centre of the image. In Panning mode, the goal is to have the target pass through the FOV within a predefined duration, passing from one side of the image to the other while passing as close as possible to the centre of the FOV in the process. The University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies – Space Flight Laboratory (“UTIAS-SFL”) will design and develop the panning mode; the design will then be simulated in a lab environment by UTIAS-SFL and Xiphos Systems Corporation (“Xiphos”) to attain TRL 4.
$50,000.00
Feb 24, 2014
The purpose of this Project is to build on the work done by the proponent to document the history of JWST ‘as it happens' with the goal of raising awareness of the JWST project to ensure the memory of key decisions taken by key actors (project managers, scientists, and engineers) throughout the development of the project.
$50,000.00
Jun 27, 2014
This project entitled IGARSS 2014 (International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium) and 35th Canadian Symposium of Remote Sensing was submitted under the ""Research"" component of the overall program of grants and contributions. This project responds to CSA priorities concerning Earth Observation offering networking opportunities in Canada with renowned international researchers, representatives of other space agencies (NASA and JAXA) and the participation of numerous researchers and Canadian students in geosciences, remote sensing and geomatics. The event offers opportunity for the Canadian university and private sector representatives to show their expertise and to develop new research opportunities or markets with international actors.
$98,915.00
Jun 4, 2014
This project will integrate the use of radar data at an active open mine site to monitor soil displacement. The objective is to generate rapid delivery products for operational decision making. Products will be verified against traditional long-term radar products and evaluated by end-users.
$99,558.00
Jun 4, 2014
This project presents novel technology using radar and optical images to improve the estimation of crop growth stages. Data from multiple satellites will be studied and integrated in the estimation process by utilizing complementary information from different satellite images.
$78,076.00
Jun 16, 2014
This project is linked to ship detection. Although dark ships do not transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS), they can still be detected by satellites. However, precious time is wasted between the time of acquiring an image and establishing a correlation between the dark ship and the radar image captured. This project will evaluate how radar and optical images can be combined to detect and track dark ships more rapidly.
$99,999.00
Aug 7, 2014
This project aims at improving the quality and quantity of satellite-derived ice information. It is specifically intended to identify ice cover, monitor its movement and know its characteristics. This R&D project will combine the use of radar and optical data to develop a new tool and improve the mapping of ice cover on Canadian waters.
$81,326.85
Jul 11, 2014
This project serves to develop an innovative image-processing algorithm, which would allow the combination of RADARSAT-2 and WorldView-2 satellite data to enhance the mapping and monitoring of rivers (e.g. detection of water bodies, riverbed material and riverine infrastructure).
$99,999.00
Jul 24, 2014
The proposed software development for this project will extend the ability to determine the merit and validity of a new set of data (to become available on the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, and called compact polarimetry), for virtually any sensor or application using the compact polarimetry mode. By making this software available to the general user community, significant advances in the development of processing techniques of this new set of data can be expected.