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.
$74,250.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Artificial Intelligence for Canadian Ground Motion Service (C-GMS)
999254
The proposed IRAP project will create a Machine Learning (ML) Model (MLM) which can be applied to the very large set of C-GMS ground movement data to detect patterns of ground motion relevant to potentially damaging events, in particular for infrastructure.
$500,000.00
Nov 17, 2021
For-profit organization
Canadian Ground Motion Service (C-GMS) for Transportation Infrastructure Monitoring
22A02-KEPL
Kepler Space has created a product for wide area monitoring of ground deformation using time series of ESA Sentinel-1 data, applying the Persistent Scatterer Interferometry technique and detecting and mapping ground displacements. The proposed work streamlines and validates such data for use in railway and bridge infrastructure monitoring systems. Innovation is provided primarily by the wide-area coverage capability, able to provide regional, provincial or national coverage. This is made possible by Sentinel-1 data and by streamlined big data analytics. An Artificial Intelligence component able of predictive modelling of infrastructure health based on data will be added to the service.
$149,848.00
Mar 27, 2018
A Remote Sensing Virtual Machine incorporating multiple space-based data and M2M connections in a cloud-compatible environment
Kepler has evolved monitoring techniques which use satellite radar data to monitor water extent, water level and water flow, with a focus on wetlands. In this project, improvements will be made via:
- The integration of multiple sources of earth observation data and ancillary data to improve of accuracy of monitoring results;
- State-of-the-art computing technologies preparing Kepler's techniques for expanded use in terms of access by user groups and expanded geographic coverage.
$99,875.30
Jul 24, 2014
This project will use data from RADARSAT-2 and data simulated from other satellites (Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2) for rapid and precise water extent and flood monitoring and mapping.