Grants and Contributions

This project encourages the development of new engineering and environmental tools and calculators for use in the industry.

The availability of high-speed Internet, including in the underserved areas of Canada's northern and rural regions, will be greatly improved with proposed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellites. These satellites will use wider bandwidth radio signals than existing geosynchronous satellites, in a challenging environment that includes additive white noise, time-varying path delay, loss and Doppler frequency shift, and other propagation effects.

The objective of the project is to design and implement a platform that simulates LEO satellite channel impairments, as seen by a terminal frequently switching between satellites in order to maintain a communications path. By emulating the effects on the wideband radio signals, the satellite radio test system will allow developers to test their technologies under realistic conditions in a controlled lab environment before launch. The test platform will ensure that solutions providing broadband services to a large number of users are reliable, and capable of meeting the demanding requirements for applications such as remote backhaul, secure low latency end-to-end communications, and high-speed Internet access.

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are used for many types of missions that involve science, Earth observation, communication, and more. An important part of a satellite's data management system is the Payload Control Unit (PCU). Used by commercial, government, and space agency customers, the market for low-cost, high-performance satellite technology is growing.

This project will test the ability of a new type of low-cost PCU based on a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product to stand up to the harsh environment of space on long missions in high-LEO (in the exosphere). The result will be a component that can be produced quickly and scaled to meet large customer demands. Producing low-cost, high-performance, space-ready PCUs will allow Canadian industry to meet the needs of new markets and retain experts in small satellite technology. It will also lead to a better understanding of environmental issues and improved security and monitoring of our coastlines and waters.

Lidar systems use lasers to measure range and are useful for everything from guiding cars on city streets to surveying asteroids in space.

This project will study how to combine smaller, lighter components in a new way to develop a more powerful, compact 3D imaging system for use in future space exploration missions. The smaller, more efficient design will help spacecraft dock with each other, guide autonomous rovers on other planets, help drones create 3D maps, and prevent collisions in marine locks. This project will allow Canadian industry to pursue market opportunities in mobile mapping, security, and automotive markets. This innovation will also provide more accurate environmental data and benefit the mining and forestry industries.

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

The purpose of this CanExport Associations contribution agreement is to support organizations and ultimately aims to increase the competitiveness of Canadian companies, in the international marketplace, on a sectoral basis, thereby contributing to Canadian prosperity and the growth of the Canadian economy. This financial support enables the recipient to undertake new or expanded international business development promotion activities, in a given sector, for the benefit of its entire industry (member and non-member firms).

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

The objective of the Technology Acceleration Program (TAP) is to help SMEs determine the optimal path forward, to transform their ideas and concepts into real products that solve a customer validated problem, and achieve revenue in a shorter period of time.

Our Field Service Technicians provide world-class services in the areas of regulatory performance testing and maintenance of air monitoring systems. The New Instrumentation Technologist will be responsible for helping to build, integrate, and test emissions monitoring systems and related products at various client facilities, providing client support on technical matters as it relates to existing systems and products, as well as emerging technologies wrapping up development.

In order to assist the upstream oil & gas sector (UOG) in reducing greenhouse gas emissions a project has been launched where Process Ecology will develop a software tool that will apply high level rules and industry knowledge to create an emissions profile for the UOG such that individual emissions sources can be identified and quantified. The emissions profile for all the sources involved would then be the basis to perform techno economic analyses for various mitigation strategies. The tool would facilitate the determination of the technical and economic feasibility of implementation of these strategies and generate marginal abatement cost curves for the various strategies.