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.
$999,916.00
Jun 5, 2020
For-profit organization
UrthePlatform Analytics Engine
20STDPK15
(20STDPK15) This R&D project will develop the UrthePlatform, a key element of the UrthePlatform Analytics Engine, which will support UrtheCast's UrtheDaily mission -a constellation of satellites that will sweep almost all of the world's land daily, with high precision images and rapid image delivery.
The development will enable Urthecast to:
· Distribute enormous quantities of EO data from UrtheDaily to the global public cost-effectively
· Provide a purpose-built platform for scientific EO applications
UrtheDaily data can facilitate many new information products& services that can have impact on Canadian public, for example:
With UrtheDaily data it is possible to build a water management service at a national scale that can provide daily watering & Irrigation schedules, which can lead to a significant reduction in wasted water usage.
$528,528.00
Apr 1, 2020
For-profit organization
Innovation Assistance Program
949461
The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.
$4,850.00
Mar 5, 2020
For-profit organization
CIIP PDA - UrtheCast Corporation - 19/20
7420015 P009296001
The purpose of this Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) contribution agreement is to support organizations and to identify specific projects or partnerships between the Recipient and international partners in CIIP target countries that could lead to industrial research and development cooperation with potential for commercialization.
$1,000,000.00
Apr 18, 2019
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites are used to scan vast areas of ocean to reliably detect any ships that are there. These wide area scans produce low-resolution images, but high-resolution images are needed to identify illegal activities like unregulated fishing.
A new satellite called SAR-XL has two independent radars—one that takes wide angle, low-resolution images, and another than produces high-resolution ones. This project will develop software and systems to allow both of the satellite's radars to work together to first detect the presence of objects like ships and sea ice, and then zoom in to identify them. These updates to SAR satellite technology will improve maritime surveillance activities by providing accurate, timely information about everything happening in Canada's maritime zones. This work supports important activities, such as monitoring the Artic, identifying ships in distress, maintaining Canadian sovereignty in the North, and protecting the border against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and trafficking.
$997,342.00
Apr 18, 2019
A new set of six Earth-observation satellites will provide a very precise snapshot of most of Earth's surface on a daily basis so that changes can be tracked over time. The data must be accurately calibrated, which is normally a time-consuming, manual task.
This project will provide three system components to cost-effectively automate this process. One system will automatically calibrate the many images produced by the six satellites. A validation system will assess the images as they are transmitted to Earth. An integration system will improve the quality of the images. This project will provide the ability to detect changes on Earth over time that can be used to identify crop damage, improve environmental monitoring, manage irrigation, and increase crop yields. It will also establish a world-class team of Canadian experts in optical systems, space-based imaging, and high-throughput software development.
$80,000.00
Oct 15, 2018
For-profit organization
Space qualification testing and analysis of commercial FPGA RF system on a chip
914407
The project objective is to test and analyze the radiation performance of an FPGA.
$25,000.00
Mar 7, 2018
Development of deep segmentation methods applied to satellite imagery
EGP
$17,559,200.00
Apr 13, 2016
For-profit organization
511089
511089
Next Generation Space and Ground Processing System for Web-Based Distribution of Earth Observation Data Products from Dual Band SAR and Optical Sensor Payloads
$2,000,000.00
Jan 27, 2016
This technology would be the core element of UrtheCast's planned 16 satellite constellation.
$600,000.00
Dec 9, 2014
This project entitled ""On-Board Autonomous Cross-Cueing of EO Sensor Systems for Maritime Domain Awareness and Tasking Optimization"" has the objective to develop a unique space-borne on-board autonomous cross-cueing and collection tasking system, allowing for optimized high-resolution optical image acquisition yields and downlink capacity utilizations. The operational applications for such a system would be low-latency ship detection and identification reporting, and cloud-free target imaging.