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...
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 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 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 federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The $131,043.37 training grant supports the development of an integrated observation and modeling framework to monitor the long-term sustainability of global rangelands. This research aims to address a key knowledge gap by leveraging remote sensing data from NASA to quantify the sensitivity of rangelands to...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The $521,806.90 grant is intended to support research aimed at developing a synthetic, flexible, and extensible approach to monitoring, reporting, and verifying the terrestrial carbon cycle. This effort seeks to integrate data from a variety of remote sensing sources, including optical, lidar, and radar...
This is a $103,053.97 federal contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is a training grant to explore long-term and seasonal trends in optical and radar time series data to develop indicators of forest degradation, with the goal of improving the ability to detect subtle changes in land cover...
This federal contract award, with identification number NNX16AP26G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract, valued at $828,715.00, is for a research project titled "Tracking Carbon Emissions and Removals by Time Series Analysis of the Land Surface: Prototype Application in Tropical MRV Systems Compliant with IPCC Tier 3." The goal is to improve modeling...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been granted to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract, awarded on September 1, 2015, is valued at $396,212.00 and has a completion date of August 31, 2019. The objective of this research contract is to develop a theoretical basis for retrieving leaf biochemical constituents, canopy geometric structures, foliage surface characteristics, and...
This is a federal contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, a civilian agency, to Trustees of Boston University. The Landsat Science Team Contract has a ceiling value of $337,843.85 and was awarded on October 5, 2012 with an ultimate completion date of October 4, 2014. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type. As a leading research university, Boston University has a history of receiving federal contracts and grants from agencies such as the National...
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 land surface phenology data products, which have applications in ecosystem and agro-ecosystem modeling, monitoring terrestrial ecosystem response to climate, crop mapping, and land cover change detection. The contract is not designated as a set-aside, and the original solicitation is not provided. The contract is a grant for research, with a period of performance ending on January 7, 2020.