The University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) has been awarded a $148,810 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a global land and vegetation gridded product (ATL18) based on data from the ICESat-2 satellite. This research effort aims to provide the terrestrial science community with accurate terrain and canopy height data at 1-kilometer resolution or better, which is critical for understanding land surface...
This is a $728,693 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for ICESAT-2 Bathymetric Studies, Product Development and Data Validation. This research grant supports the development of capabilities related to the ICESat-2 satellite mission, which uses laser altimetry to measure changes in the elevation of Earth's ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice. UT Austin, as a major public research university, has an extensive...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $228,855.36 grant award (22-NUP2022-0087) from a Civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center for research support related to ICESat-2 ATL08 and ATL18 data products. The award was made on November 2, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of November 1, 2024, and was not designated as a set-aside contract. UT Austin, a leading public research university with extensive federal contracting experience across advanced technological and scientific...
This is a $218,922.36 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Applied Research Laboratories Division. The grant will fund a project to standardize and automate the processing of data from the ICESat-2 satellite in order to produce accurate global-scale bathymetry (seafloor depth) measurements, with a focus on characterizing coastal benthic (seafloor) environments. The award is not set...
This federal contract award, NNX17AB50G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) to support the creation of the ICESat-2 ATL18 algorithm theoretical basis. The key objective is to develop accurate global products of terrain heights, canopy heights, and canopy cover at moderate spatial resolution to support terrestrial and climate studies. The $149,904.21 grant will leverage data...
This federal contract award, valued at $3,568,871.00, was granted to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on January 27, 2020. The contract supports the ICESat-2 mission, which was successfully launched in September 2018 and is using state-of-the-art laser altimeter technology to study the Earth's surfaces. UT Austin ARL, a division of the University of Texas System, is a leading research...
This is a $176,920.18 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories Division to develop biomass estimation methodologies for the boreal forest using ICESat-2 data and produce a boreal-wide biomass product. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on April 20, 2020 and has a completion date of March 27, 2022. The University of Texas at Austin Applied...
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has been awarded a $73,559.85 firm-fixed-price grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct ground-based validation of data products and measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. As the prime contractor, UT Austin will leverage its expertise in earth science research to validate satellite laser altimetry data collected by ICESat-2 and produce...
This federal contract award is a $204,207.56 grant to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant supports continued development of coupling efforts between ice sheet models and NASA's GEOS-5 and GISS ModelE climate models. The goal is to gain insights into the effects of dynamic ice sheets and associated feedbacks on the global climate system. Specifically, the research will focus on improving...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories Division (UT Austin ARL) to support continued development of the ATL08 algorithm for NASA's ICESat-2 satellite mission. The $149,809.56 grant aims to ensure continuity of personnel working on the ATL08 algorithm and build confidence that it is ready to process the large volume of data once ICESat-2 begins collecting data. The ATL08 algorithm...
This $148,038.31 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Applied Research Laboratories (ARL) Division. The purpose of the grant is to develop a methodology for producing a gridded global terrain and canopy height product from the data collected by the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. The objectives include analyzing and visualizing the ICESat-2 data across a 1-kilometer global grid, determining the best gridding approach, and characterizing the uncertainty of the final gridded products. This work will support the development of the ICESat-2 Land/Vegetation Gridded Products (ATL18) and is intended to benefit land surface models and global climate models. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and runs through April 3, 2021. UT Austin ARL is a subsidiary of the University of Texas System and has a long history of providing research, development, testing, and evaluation services to federal agencies like the Department of Defense and NASA.