This is a $284,753 federal grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for research to constrain forest net ecosystem production using lidar remote sensing observations and mechanistic ecosystem modeling. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2027. UMD is a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and state-controlled institution of higher learning with extensive capabilities in...
This is a $1,184,995.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "PANTROPICAL STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS MAPPING USING THE FUSION OF GEDI AND TANDEM-X DATA - PHASE II: EXPANSION TO NEW REGIONS AND ESTIMATING CHANGE". The grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and state-controlled institution of...
This is a $107,972 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "EARTH OBSERVATION-BASED RESTORATION AND MONITORING IN COASTAL AND FORESTED PROTECTED AREAS OF WEST AFRICA". The grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and research-intensive university, has demonstrated extensive capabilities in developing advanced...
This is a $687,078 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "Mapping Boreal Forest Biomass Recovery Rates Across Gradients of Vegetation Structure and Environmental Change." The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund research to study boreal forest recovery and the impacts of environmental changes. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and research...
This is a $429,145 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research on understanding post-fire disturbance forest recovery in Mediterranean ecosystems using the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument. The grant has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2028 and was awarded on May 1, 2024. UMD, as a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and...
This is a $673,660.00 grant awarded to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to conduct research on "HARMONIZING GLOBAL LAND-USE DATASETS WITH REMOTE-SENSING OBSERVATIONS OF FOREST-BASED LAND-USE CHANGES". The award is not a set-aside contract. UMD, a U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, will leverage its extensive academic and research capabilities to support this scientific research effort, which has a...
This is a $893,620.97 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on October 31, 2017 with a completion date of October 31, 2022. The grant aims to develop remote sensing-based and modeling tools to characterize, quantify, understand, and predict forest degradation in the tropical woodlands of the Miombo region of Southern Africa. The project has three key objectives: 1) Prototype a remote sensing-based approach to...
This is a $505,246 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant is for the research project "Analyzing Patterns of Forest Growth, Loss and Degradation in Global Protected Areas with GEDI", with a period of performance ending on February 28, 2028. The University of Maryland is a state-controlled institution of higher learning that has received numerous prime federal contract...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project titled "Analyzing Spatial Co-Benefits of Carbon and Structural Diversity in South East Asia with GEDI". The project will run from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027 and is not a set-aside contract. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, has a history of conducting scientific...
This federal award is a research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), a state-controlled institution of higher learning. The $649,256.99 grant aims to study the impacts of recent agricultural land use changes, such as the conversion from rice to sugarcane cultivation, on ecosystem services, soil quality, and the socioeconomic well-being of rural communities in central and northeast Thailand. The...