The University of Wisconsin System has been awarded a $316,856 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on "Advance Spaceborne Mapping of Plant Functional Traits with High-Resolution and Hyperspectral Data over Sparse Vegetation Canopies". This grant, with a period of performance ending March 22, 2026, will leverage remote sensing data to map plant characteristics. The University of Wisconsin System, a U.S. state government entity and 1862...
The U.S. government has awarded a $100,000.00 grant for research to the University of Wisconsin System for a project titled "DYNAMIC BIODIVERSITY: LEVERAGING COMMUNITY SCIENCE AND EARTH OBSERVATIONS TO UNCOVER SEASONAL SHIFTS IN FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY". This grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is intended to leverage community science and Earth observation data to study seasonal changes in biodiversity. The project will be conducted by the...
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...
This is a $96,781 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison, operating as Research and Sponsored Programs under the University of Wisconsin System. The grant is for a research project titled "Characterizing Field-Scale Water Use, Phenology and Productivity in Agricultural Landscapes Using Multi Sensor Data Fusion". There is no set-aside designation for this award. The University of Wisconsin System has a history...
The University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, was awarded a $135,362.91 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "Development of Tools and Data Download" project. This grant, with a completion date of February 7, 2024, will be used to refine the pre-processing tools for a frequency residual series analysis. The project does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime contractor, the University of...
The U.S. government has awarded a $203,012 grant for research to the University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division operating as Research and Sponsored Programs. The grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is to assess the impact of future and current spaceborne missions in order to improve estimates of nitrogen export and freshwater flux. The research will exploit various airborne and spaceborne remote sensing data to...
The University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division operating as Research and Sponsored Programs, has been awarded a $605,520 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the development of a spaceborne imaging spectrometer. This instrument is intended to advance the study of surface biology and geology globally, as prioritized in NASA's 2017-2027 Decadal Survey. The award does not utilize any set-aside designations and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $349,999 fixed-price grant to the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) through its University of Wisconsin-Madison division. The grant has a completion date of January 31, 2025 and supports the goal of using vegetation remote sensing to provide spatially resolved information to simulate the terrestrial biosphere's photosynthesis rate. No set-aside designation was used for this award. As the prime contractor, UWS will leverage its...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1.158 million grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through January 2020 to August 2022. The research grant will utilize decades of broad-scale remote sensing datasets to detect changes on Earth over time. As one of the largest public university systems, the University of Wisconsin acts as prime contractor and will perform the research. No subcontractors or set-aside designations were specified. This research aligns...
The University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, has been awarded a $155,026 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop algorithms for key cloud products to satisfy the agency's mission requirements. This grant does not have a set-aside designation, and the expected completion date is August 31, 2023. The University of Wisconsin System is the prime contractor on this research and development effort, which aligns...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $458,250.00 grant to the University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, for a two-year project. The project aims to develop open-source software tools and a data repository to enable broader use of hyperspectral data analysis for applications in agriculture, ecosystem monitoring, and biodiversity assessment. The project will expand the functionality of the existing ECOSIS.ORG platform, create complementary tools like the Ecological Spectral Model Library (ECOSML.ORG) and the Spectroscopy Data Abstraction Library (SPECDAL), and develop a hyperspectral image processing toolbox called HYTOOLS. All software developed will be open-source and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. This grant is not associated with any set-aside program.