This federal contract award to The Ohio State University, with a ceiling value of $714,403.44, supports the comprehensive validation of algorithms for estimating river discharge across different river types. The goal is to develop accurate discharge estimation capabilities in support of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, a key transformational capability for terrestrial hydrology. The work will leverage various data sources, including AirSWOT measurements, field data, SWOT...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University (OSU) is for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, which will measure river height, width, and slope globally for rivers wider than 100 meters. The $520,659.44 grant-funded research contract was awarded on July 23, 2020 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, with a performance period through July 22, 2024. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime...
The Ohio State University's Office of Sponsored Programs has been awarded a $942,218 research grant (23-SWOTST23-0069) by a civilian federal agency to advance the accuracy of discharge measurements for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. The project, titled "Enabling Exploration of Earth's Water Cycle: Moving the Needle on SWOT Discharge Accuracy Through Ground-Breaking Advances," will be performed in Columbus, Ohio, with a completion date of August 1, 2028. This...
This is a grant award to The Ohio State University from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to improving discharge estimates from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The research objectives are to: 1) integrate lateral inflows into a SWOT discharge algorithm, 2) integrate lake/reservoir dynamics into a SWOT discharge algorithm, 3) develop a SWOT modeling application for community water resources planning and flood...
This is a $409,679.64 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University (OSU) to support the development and validation of algorithms for estimating river discharge in the Arctic using data from the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission and existing ArcticDEM elevation data. The grant will fund work to characterize the accuracy of river height, width, and slope measurements from ArcticDEM, evaluate flow law models...
This is a $79,943.84 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University. The grant is for research to use satellite observations to independently validate and explore the spatial and temporal patterns of cloud water storage (CWS) in global rivers. The award has no set-aside designation and was made on September 1, 2019, with a completion date of August 31, 2021. The Ohio State University, a public research...
This federal contract award, valued at $150,000.00, was granted to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "REVEALING THE HYDROSPHERE: MAPPING WIDTHS AND HEIGHTS OF NARROW RIVERS WITH SWOT" project. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UMass, as the prime contractor, will utilize its expertise in areas such as engineering, computer science, and environmental studies to conduct...
This is a $224,972.75 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University to conduct research on remote sensing of the ocean. The grant has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2023 and is not designated as a set-aside contract. The Ohio State University is the prime contractor on this grant, which is part of NASA's efforts to better understand the processes shaping the ocean and air-sea interface through satellite and other remote...
This is a $80,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University (OSU) to develop methods for estimating floodplain topography using remote sensing data. The goal is to improve flood modeling and hazard mapping by addressing the limitations of existing global digital elevation models (DEMs), which often lack the detailed terrain information needed for accurate flood inundation predictions. OSU will explore three approaches: data...
This federal contract award is a $498,019 grant for research from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Ohio State University (OSU) for a project titled "TOWARDS IMPROVED SIMULATION OF COMPOUND FLOODING EVENTS USING CYGNSS AND OTHER NASA METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS." The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2027. OSU is the prime contractor, and there are no set-aside designations for this grant. The Ohio State University is a prominent public research...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University, with a ceiling value of $104,871.57, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to analyze the impacts of the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission on understanding global runoff patterns. The project aims to determine how current in-situ and remote sensing data can explain variability in runoff characteristics across global watersheds, and how the SWOT mission's river discharge measurements will improve understanding of the macroscopic drivers of land surface runoff. The contract supports NASA's Earth Science focus area of quantifying key water cycle reservoirs and fluxes to improve models of water availability. This is a training grant with no set-aside designation, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2018.