Blockware Technologies Ltd.

$122,000.00 CAD

≈ 19 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2021-2022
Agreement period
June 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2021-2022-Q1-972914

Published purpose

The proposed project targets the quantification of nutrients in soil using newly available mobile near infrared (NIR) sensors coupled with cloud-based support in the form of data processing, machine learning and spectral matching algorithms/libraries. Development work includes integration of NIR sensors from multiple hardware vendors into a common platform that supports location, soil type and device-specific calibrations/analysis. Field testing with partners includes two pilots that are located at (1) a Northern Alberta wellsite being reclaimed and (2) numerous cropland locations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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