This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AK60G, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for $739,101.70 to develop algorithms that will use a combination of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite data to monitor land surface phenology at moderate (30 meter) spatial resolution. This research aims to provide the foundation for operational production of multi-sensor...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC21K1974, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The $751,731 grant will fund research on how climate change is impacting the timing and duration of vegetation phenology, with a focus on linking observed changes in land surface phenology to climate forcing, carbon fluxes, and land surface temperature. The research aims to provide a...
This $428,395 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University for a research project titled "LEVERAGING GEDI AND OTHER SATELLITE PRODUCTS, GROUND OBSERVATIONS AND DYNAMIC PROCESS BASED MODELLING FOR MITIGATION ORIENTED FOREST RESTORATION AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION PLANNING AND EVALUATION". The grant, which has a period of performance through March 31, 2028, will leverage satellite data and dynamic modeling to...
This is a $951,747.90 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is for a project titled "A PANTROPICAL MONITORING SYSTEM OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND REMOVALS FROM FOREST DEGRADATION, DEFORESTATION, AND FOREST EXPANSION AND GROWTH." The grant is not associated with a set-aside program and has an ultimate completion date of October 6, 2023. Boston University...
The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a $661,755 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to provide landscape monitoring capacity building in West African countries. Specifically, the prime contractor will deliver techniques and data required for production of comparable area estimates of forest degradation and deforestation using time series of Landsat observations. This will include comprehensive support for sample-based estimation of...
This federal contract award is for the development of data products that characterize disturbance, seasonal greening and browning trends, and growing season length using Landsat satellite imagery. The $299,843.13 cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract aims to leverage the long-term, well-calibrated Landsat data archive to address the need for...
This is a $581,114 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University to maintain and refine the algorithm for generating operational vegetation green leaf area index (LAI) and absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) data products from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) sensor series. The objective is to ensure continuity and consistency with the prior Moderate...
This is a $499,847 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is for a research project with three main objectives: (1) nowcasting and near-term forecasting, (2) disturbance assimilation, and (3) multisensor assimilation. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and has a period of performance ending on May 31, 2025. As a prominent research university, Boston...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university, to advance the understanding of boreal/arctic vegetation dynamics using multi-scale ground and remote sensing observations. The $119,999.98 training grant aims to study the spatial and temporal evolution of circumpolar boreal/arctic vegetation dynamics, including growing season and productivity, and the contribution of individual growing...
This is a $663,941 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is for the university to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The university will participate as a key partner and enabler in NASA's exploration initiative,...
Trustees of Boston University was awarded a $1,047,509.46 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create an operational land surface phenology product. The goal is to combine imagery from the Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 satellite missions to monitor and map land surface properties at an unprecedented level of spatial detail and temporal frequency. The product will provide data on the timing of vegetation phenophase transitions, as well as identify near real-time anomalies, to support a range of applications including ecosystem and agricultural modeling, monitoring ecosystem response to climate, and land cover/use change mapping. The award has no set-aside designation, and the grant was issued on January 15, 2018 with a completion date of November 16, 2022. Boston University will collaborate with researchers at Lund University in Sweden on the development and validation of the phenology algorithms.