This federal contract award, valued at $75,926.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Conservation International Foundation (CI). The contract tasks CI with developing an approach to calculate Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 11.3.1, the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate, and implementing it in CI's existing Trends.Earth tool. Trends.Earth leverages Google Earth Engine to allow users to process and use Earth...
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 is a four-year grant award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for an applications project titled "Remote Sensing as a Catalyst for Large-Scale Conservation". The grant was made in response to NASA's 2016 Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) solicitation, under the Ecological Monitoring topic. The project aims to develop web-based tools that use Google Earth Engine to produce...
This is a $80,684.55 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Stockholm Environment Institute U.S., Inc., a non-profit research organization. The grant is for a project titled "CAN REMOTE DATA CONNECT US TO THE LAND? A LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS FOR BRAIDING SATELLITE-BASED INFORMATION AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN CALIFORNIA". The grant does not have a set-aside designation and the period of performance runs through March 29, 2024. The grant will...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $575,281.18 grant to Yale University on February 14, 2018 to advance the use of remote sensing data for species distribution and abundance modeling. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The work will leverage existing projects and partnerships to improve inventory datasets, enhance modeling methods, and deliver spatial and spatio-temporal Essential Biodiversity Variable (EBV) products for species in North America,...
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 $850,647.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montana State University to develop and implement a decision support system (DSS) for scenario planning, forecasting, policy development, and reporting related to Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) - Life on Land. The project aims to assist Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in meeting the Convention on Biodiversity 2020 targets by integrating Earth observation data and biological data to produce...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $59,530 cooperative agreement to the Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Inc. (ESIP), a non-profit organization, to support artificial intelligence and machine learning research in Earth science. The award, which runs through November 2024, is intended to build an open-source platform called GeoWeaver for enabling ad hoc management, open sharing, and robust reuse of NASA Earth data-driven...
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...
This is a $647,307.52 grant award from NASA to the Indigenous Education Institute (IEI), a minority-owned and Native American-owned non-profit organization. The grant is for a project focused on advancing national education goals in underrepresented and underserved populations of Native American students in formal and informal education. The project aims to incorporate relevant Native American sciences, including Native astronomy and perspectives regarding the Sun. This grant award is not...
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 decisions and data infrastructure utilizing EO data. The grant will fund a three-part effort: 1) conducting a participatory needs assessment to understand how indigenous groups currently approach sustainable land management decisions, 2) designing and delivering targeted training on using EO data and tools for land management, and 3) facilitating knowledge exchange on EO applications within indigenous communities. This work aims to enable progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the societal benefit objectives of NASA's Earth Science Division. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.