This $353,116 federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for a research project titled "USING HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION COMMERCIAL IMAGERY TO MAP SHRUB COVER IN THE TUNDRA BIOME." The contract does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by October 4, 2025. As a prime contractor, Boston University has a...
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 federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0161, was granted to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, to conduct research on solar-induced fluorescence (SIF), a promising satellite measurement of ecosystem productivity. The $263,349 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), does not have a set-aside designation. The research responsibilities under this contract include surface measurements and landscape-scale analysis...
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 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for the continued maintenance and assessment of Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Vegetation-Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) products generated from Terra and Aqua MODIS instrument data. These products characterize vegetation functioning and have broad...
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...
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 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 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 is a $951,747.90 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is for a project titled "A PANTROPICAL MONITORING SYSTEM OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND REMOVALS FROM FOREST DEGRADATION, DEFORESTATION, AND FOREST EXPANSION AND GROWTH." The grant is not associated with a set-aside program and has an ultimate completion date of October 6, 2023. Boston University...