The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $864,006.00 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan, for the development and demonstration of a wideband autocorrelation radiometer receiver to directly measure terrestrial snow and ice accumulation. This technology is intended to improve upon existing passive microwave methods for quantifying global snow pack, which can be...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AI13G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The $97,853.15 award supports research to improve forward physical radiative transfer models and retrieval algorithms for radar remote sensing of terrestrial snow, which is critical for effective management of water resources. The research aims to address gaps in the current baseline algorithms for the European Space Agency's...
This is a $250,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for research related to improving the quantification of surface scattering in radar snow retrievals. The research will be conducted at low (L-band), medium (C-band), and high (X/Ku bands) frequencies, using data from satellite and airborne radar observations as well as ground truth from field campaigns. The expected outcome is an improved understanding of...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, a prominent U.S. state government-owned educational institution. The contract is for research to leverage assets from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission to evaluate atmospheric river snowfall properties. The award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan has an...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $235,000.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan). The grant is for a research project focused on the densification of snow into solid ice, a process known as firn. The contract has a completion date of May 31, 2025 and was awarded on June 1, 2021. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The University...
This federal contract is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects. The $149,642.76 grant is for research to improve surface elevation retrievals from the ICESat-2 satellite, which uses green photon time-of-flight to measure snow and ice elevations. The University of Michigan, a leading research institution, will conduct this work to address...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, doing business as the University of Michigan. The award, valued at $9,673.84, is for a hydrological test bed scoping study for snow albedo under Contract Number 80NSSC21K0975. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan is a highly regarded public research university that has...
This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Michigan, doing business as the University of Michigan, is for $287,548 to conduct studies on physical models of microwave radar scattering at X-band and Ku-band frequencies for terrestrial snow. The research aims to (1) develop forward physical dense media radiative transfer models, (2) validate the models with data from the SNOWSAR and SNOWSCAT aircraft and ground-based measurement programs, (3) develop and test retrieval...
This is a $361,995 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Michigan for research related to "LEVERAGING ENHANCED IMAGING WITH GROUND VALIDATION OBSERVATIONS TO AID GLOBAL SNOW REMOTE SENSING". The grant is for a period of approximately 4 years, with a completion date of May 23, 2026. The University of Michigan, a prominent public research institution, will be conducting this cutting-edge scientific research without any set-aside designation....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a far-infrared and mid-infrared based phase discrimination algorithm to study how clouds exert an influence on the changing Arctic surface climate through radiative...