Delivery Order AG3A75C090027-AG3A75D100050

Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), a Santa Rosa, California-based satellite data processing firm, received a $1.45 million Cooperative Agreement from NASA's Shared Services Center, with performance completion targeted for December 31, 2024. The contract addresses the Access Technology Focus Area 2.1.1.2 requirement for creation of training data by converting a 32-year historical record of satellite microwave observations into datasets compatible with machine learning applications. The project tackles...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a delivery order valued at $1.34 million to SES Inc. for grazing land data collection activities supporting the National Resources Inventory (NRI) program in the Northeast region. This order, which exercised the second option year of an existing contract, runs through March 2029 and will be performed in Lincoln, Nebraska. SES Inc., a Subchapter S corporation based in Lenexa, Kansas, specializes in...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to support climate services in East Africa and Southern Africa. The overarching objective is to enhance the capacity of the Regional Center for Mapping and Resource Development (RCMRD) to provide improved early warning, agricultural yield assessments, and climate scenarios to local and national stakeholders. The $599,894.55 grant aims to increase access to...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for $614,676.00. The purpose of the grant is to develop educational materials, webinars, and on-site trainings that build capacity in the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based earth observation data for decision-making, specifically related to the four main AmeriGEOSS initiatives in Central and South America. The project will also develop innovative cloud-based...

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $750,000.00 Cooperative Agreement to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines) for a project titled "HIGH SPATIAL-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING DEEP LEARNING FUSION OF MULTIMODAL SATELLITE DATASTREAMS". This research and development effort, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to improve soil moisture measurement capabilities by leveraging deep learning techniques...

This is a $200,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) and its partner South Dakota State University (SDSU). The project is focused on the development of a multi-spectral imaging device for crop observation, intended for use on a tethered aerostat platform provided by Raven Industries Aerostar Inc. The project aims to improve upon, calibrate, and harden a prototype...

This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC24M0010, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), a for-profit subchapter S corporation located in Santa Rosa, California. The $3,000,843 cooperative agreement is for extending the air/sea essential climate variable record using observations from two new satellite microwave sensors, MWI and AMSR-3. The award does not have a set-aside designation. RSS is known for processing and analyzing...

This $1,124,355 cooperative agreement was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to South Dakota State University (SDSU) on July 1, 2015 for the "Radiometric Calibration Advances for Next Generation Pushbroom Sensors" program. The contract supports SDSU's Image Processing Laboratory in advancing the state-of-the-art in radiometric calibration for the Landsat 8, Landsat 9, and Sentinel-2 Earth remote sensing satellite missions over the next five years. The...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to South Dakota State University (SDSU) for a project titled "Monitoring and Projecting Environmental Change in Fragmented Tropical Forest Landscapes". The $337,744.42 award is intended to develop a workflow for using Landsat satellite imagery to monitor tropical forest dynamics in the Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa, and to create a land change simulation model to project future forest...

This federal contract award is to South Dakota State University (SDSU) for the development of software tools to support the geometric registration of data from the Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellite sensors. The $100,012 grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is focused on addressing misregistration issues between the two sensor systems, which have limited the ability to meaningfully combine their data for land monitoring applications. The award is not...