This is a $345,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for a research project titled "VALIDATION AND USER-FRIENDLY PRODUCT ANALYSIS FOR NISAR TIME SERIES OF DEFORMATION, WITH APPLICATION TO PERMAFROST AND SOIL MOISTURE EXAMPLES". The grant is for validating and analyzing deformation data from the NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, with a...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University, to participate in the development of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission as a member of the NISAR Science Team. The award has a ceiling value of $348,964.16 and a period of performance through August 12, 2023. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. Stanford University, a private research...
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...
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 was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The NISAR mission will use radar to study changes in polar ice sheets and sea ice, measure Earth's surface deformation, and characterize global ecosystems. This grant, valued at $345,775.36, supports MIT's role as the Applications Lead for the NISAR Science Definition Team. The contract...
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 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...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The $281,033 grant will support research and development activities related to the NISAR mission, which aims to facilitate significant advances in targeted science disciplines and promote synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology to new application areas. UAF, a public research university, is the prime...
This is a $260,849 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Earth Big Data LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to support the development of ecosystem disturbance monitoring algorithms for the upcoming NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant funds Earth Big Data's continued participation on the NISAR Science Definition Team, including tasks such as refining science requirements, developing...
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...
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 methods.
The research will also demonstrate how NISAR's InSAR capabilities can be used for groundwater management, an example of applying the technology to address pressing societal needs. This award is not a set-aside contract. Stanford University will serve as the prime contractor, leveraging its expertise across diverse scientific and technical domains to support the NISAR mission's objectives.