This $30,000.00 federal grant contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to George Washington University for a project titled "ACTIVE PASSIVE L BAND SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE BY COMRAD". The contract, which is not set-aside, has a performance period ending on January 19, 2026. George Washington University, the prime contractor, is a private research university located in Washington, D.C. that regularly supports various federal agencies through its...
This is a $280,415.69 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to George Mason University for research to improve estimates of hyperresolution root zone soil moisture. The research aims to develop a high-resolution hydrological modeling system to better characterize soil moisture and its impact on local weather, climate, and water resources management. The project will leverage data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite, as well as...
This $266,328 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington to develop a data assimilation approach that integrates precipitation accumulation data from the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) with surface soil moisture retrievals from the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) mission. The goal is to enhance the utility of these satellite-based products for improved hydrologic modeling and water...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to George Washington University (The) Student Accounts Office / Third Party Division, a private university located in Washington, D.C. The $54,032.71 grant is for completing an initial set of P band (700 MHz) dielectric measurements of seawater. This award represents an augmentation to a previous no-cost extension for this research project. George Washington University has a history of...
This is a $98,382.37 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to George Washington University (The) to conduct research on modeling P and L band soundings of the Martian regolith. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023. George Washington University (The) is the prime grantee, and the award was made on September 1, 2021. This research effort aims to improve our understanding of the physical...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to George Mason University, a large public research university located in Fairfax, Virginia. The grant, valued at $456,029.97, aims to integrate satellite soil moisture data, primarily from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, into weather, emission, and air quality modeling. The goal is to evaluate weather fields, improve weather-dependent emissions, and assess the role of modeled weather fields in...
This is a federal grant award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education associated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The $397,649.43 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is for research to develop a joint data assimilation system that can simultaneously incorporate precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and soil moisture data from the Soil...
This is a $50,550 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The George Washington University (GWU), a private research university located in Washington, D.C. The contract is for research on P-band dielectric constant for low and high salinity, with a period of performance through February 2026. The contract is not set-aside. GWU has a long history of serving as a prime contractor and grant recipient for numerous federal agencies, including NASA,...
This is a $522,289.60 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to support the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) science mission. The SMAP mission was originally intended to provide soil moisture estimates at a 10 km spatial resolution with a 3-day revisit interval, but the mission's radar malfunctioned in 2015, leading to the...
The George Washington University received a $294,767.81 research grant from a Civilian federal agency through its Shared Services Center to advance understanding and modeling of large-scale evapotranspiration and recharge flux. The project, which commenced on August 15, 2019 with an ultimate completion date of September 1, 2024, focuses on coupled estimation of evapotranspiration and recharge utilizing remotely sensed land surface moisture and temperature data. This research addresses two...
This is a $81,514.07 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The George Washington University (GWU) Student Accounts Office / Third Party Division for a project titled "Multi-Frequency Soil Moisture Measurements and Analysis". The project consists of two parts: (1) data analysis for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 2 soil moisture passive-only products, and (2) integrating a P-band GNSS receiver into the COMRAD (Combined Radar/Radiometer) system. The work aims to assess the accuracy of SMAP soil moisture retrievals over moderate to densely vegetated terrain, evaluate the spatial and temporal consistency of the data, and support field demonstrations integrating the COMRAD system. This grant does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on April 1, 2016 with a completion date of July 26, 2018.