This is a $770,500 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Start International, Inc., a non-profit organization, for the Land Cover/Land Use Change (LC/LUC) program from 2019 to 2021. The grant will fund the organization of meetings, trainings, and symposia to enhance LC/LUC science through improved access to Earth observation data and products, as well as fostering collaborations. The focus areas include forestry, fire disturbance, agriculture, and carbon...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $180,238 grant to the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Inc. (IGES), a non-profit organization, to assess and improve NASA Earth observations applications in the U.S. business sector, with a focus on the agriculture, financial services, water, and health sectors. The grant, titled "Seeing Green," supports the convening of workshops with private and public sector stakeholders,...
This federal contract award is a grant for research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Conservation International Foundation, a non-profit organization. The grant, worth $429,582.00, is to develop state-space models that connect satellite time series data across different sensors to a network of forest inventory plots in order to quantify forest carbon dynamics across time and space. The research aims to pioneer this approach to enhance...
This $120,509.00 federal grant award to Lumenus Scientific, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, is for research to assess drivers of tropical carbon flux variability across spatial and temporal scales using space-based observations. The award is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, and is classified as a grant for research. The project is set to run until August 30, 2025. Lumenus Scientific, LLC is a technology...
This is a $120,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the International Space University Organization, Inc., a private non-profit educational institution. The grant is to fund an Advanced Concepts and Innovation via Interdisciplinary Research Team Projects program, which involves intense, original research activities conducted by multidisciplinary, international groups of postgraduate students and professionals. The program focuses on identifying...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $550,144.25 grant to the Conservation International Foundation, a non-profit organization, to strengthen the technical capacities of indigenous organizations in the Americas to utilize earth observation (EO) data for enhanced sustainable land management across indigenous lands. The project aligns with the ongoing Group on Earth Observations (GEO) AmeriGEOSS initiative to increase regional capacity for sustainable land use...
This is a $1,920,660.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the National Space Grant Foundation Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. The agreement provides support for the distribution of space grant internship stipends. This award is not set-aside and is expected to be completed by May 31, 2023. The National Space Grant Foundation Inc. has previously supported NASA's Exploration Systems and Habitation...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - United States (IUCN-US) for the project "FROM EYES IN THE SKY TO BOOTS ON THE GROUND: APPLYING NASA EARTH OBSERVATIONS TO PROTECT CRITICAL FORESTS IN MESOAMERICA THROUGH THE IUCN STAR PROGRAM". The $998,456.00 award is for a research project that will utilize NASA Earth observation data to support forest conservation efforts in Mesoamerica...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $78,016 grant for research to the non-profit organization Science Friday Initiative, Inc. on June 16, 2021. The grant funding is to be used to increase public access to science and scientific information, which aligns with the organization's mission. The grant has a period of performance through December 23, 2022, and was not set aside for any specific business type. Science Friday Initiative, Inc. has also...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $647,487.00 grant to the University of Wisconsin System's University of Wisconsin - Madison division, operating as Research and Sponsored Programs, to develop algorithms and prototype products, and to analyze combined Landsat and Sentinel-2 data, to monitor abandoned agriculture, fallow fields, and grasslands. This work is directly relevant to the scope of the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (NASA-LCLUC) program and NASA's...