This federal contract award to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division, worth $382,501.00, supports research on processing and modeling large volumes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to study the aftermath of major earthquakes in the Tibetan Plateau region. The research aims to improve understanding of earthquake cycle mechanisms, deformation processes, and seismic hazards. This contract is not set aside and is funded by the National...
The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $665,939 grant award from NASA on March 9, 2023, for research titled "Strain Rate and Moment Rate in Western North America from InSAR and GNSS." The project, led by David Sandwell at UCSD in collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Hawaii, and CICESE in Mexico, addresses two critical surface deformation science questions from NASA's 2016 Earth Science...
This is a $345,760.51 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to continue support for the definition of science goals, requirements, measurement requirements, product definition, and science algorithm development, as well as data distribution and calibration/validation planning for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The work will be done in collaboration with other key NASA missions focused...
This federal contract award, NNX16AK58G, was granted to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue Caltech's participation on the NASA/ISRO SAR (NISAR) Science Definition Team (NSDT) and serve as the Solid Earth Science Co-Lead. NISAR is a joint Earth observation mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that will use L- and S-band radar to measure surface deformation, study changes in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 training grant to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to characterize surface displacements and the effects of changing soil moisture. The research will leverage data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) to assess the impact...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stanford University for research on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant, valued at $322,552.91, aims to help ensure NISAR provides data that supports a wide range of scientific investigations and societal applications, with a focus on maximizing the mission's ability to observe surface deformation even in challenging environments through the use of persistent scatterer InSAR...
This is a $339,644.46 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant supports a 3-year research project to measure the seismic moment accumulation rate and crustal strain rate along the San Andreas Fault System using a combination of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The project aims to improve processing methods for...
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) was awarded a $415,548 research grant on October 26, 2022, for NISAR Products, Calibration/Validation, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. This non-set-aside grant, managed through a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center, supports research activities to be conducted at UCI's Irvine, California campus with an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2026. The NASA Imaging Radar (NISAR) mission represents a collaborative...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $352,684.99 grant is for the recipient to contribute to the development of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission through supporting the Science Definition Team (SDT). The work will focus on using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques to monitor changes in permafrost and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000 training grant contract to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to use NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) data to improve understanding of land subsidence and levee seepage in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California. This supports NASA's Disasters Applications objectives to use earth observations to predict, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural and...
This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) aims to improve the accuracy of earthquake source models and Earth velocity models by reconciling data from InSAR and seismic methods. The $103,384.62 award, granted by the NASA Shared Services Center, supports research to better constrain earthquake locations and source mechanisms, which is critical for hazard assessment and forecasting. The project leverages upcoming satellite missions like Sentinel-1, ALOS-2, and NISAR to enhance the use of InSAR data in this effort. The award is not associated with a set-aside program, and there are no major subcontractors mentioned. This work aligns with NASA's broader goals in Earth science research and natural disaster response.