The University of Houston System was awarded a $661,443 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue a SERVIR-Mekong project focused on developing water management tools and services for the lower Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. This builds on the previous SERVIR-2 project led by the University that developed real-time virtual stream gauging, hydrologic modeling, and forecasting capabilities for the Mekong region. The new grant will fund the development...
This federal contract award, with identification number 80NSSC18K0423, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Houston System. The $421,065 grant is for a research project focused on developing satellite-based water management products and applications, including monitoring and forecasting of water levels, inundated extents, and water volume changes over the Mekong River floodplains and delta region. The project aims to reach Technology Readiness Levels...
This is a $109,897 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Houston System to evaluate the use of Umbra high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for sustainable water management practices and flood inundation forecasts. The grant has a completion date of January 29, 2026 and is not associated with a set-aside program. The University of Houston System is a public university system that has...
This federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Miami University, a non-profit educational institution, to conduct research on land cover/land use change (LCLUC) in the Mekong Delta region of Southern Vietnam. The $420,780.15 grant will map agricultural, forest, and urban LCLUC using Landsat and very high resolution satellite data, and incorporate a sociocultural framework to model future LCLUC trajectories. The research will focus on the Nghe Tinh...
This $97,000.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to support the "Monitoring and Forecasting Drought and Crop Yield for the Lower Mekong Basin" project as part of the SERVIR Mekong program. The project aims to develop a modeling framework to provide the SERVIR Mekong region with linked drought and rice yield nowcasts and forecasts. This will involve implementing a hydrologic model coupled with a crop...
This $76,474 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of South Carolina (USC) to support research and capacity building related to water resources management in developing countries. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, is focused on two main components: 1) assessing the risk of inadequate water quantity and quality in the Ganga-Brahmaputra river basin in India using satellite data and hydrological modeling, and 2)...
The University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston, has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center. The grant is for a research project to evaluate high-resolution data collected by Capella Space satellites for applications in coastal monitoring and sustainable water management practices. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The period of performance is scheduled to run from March 6, 2023...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23K0184, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Houston System (the University of Houston) as the prime contractor. The contract is a grant for research valued at $623,169.00, with a performance period ending on December 31, 2025. The contract is to provide services for "STRENGTHENING REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CAPACITY FOR OPERATIONAL FLOOD AND DROUGHT MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR LOWER MEKONG NATIONS VIA MEKONG...
This is a $577,947 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a research and engineering organization that is part of the Texas A&M University System. The grant is for the development of a long-term, comprehensive, and validated global reservoir monitoring product using satellite data from NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Suomi NPP missions. The project aims to address key knowledge gaps in understanding...
This federal contract award, valued at $675,814.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Houston System, a state-controlled institution of higher learning. The contract is for a research grant titled "EO14042 NEW OBSERVING STRATEGIES FOR BEACH AND DUNE TOPOGRAPHY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR COASTAL FLOOD RISK" and has a period of performance through June 14, 2026. The contract was not set aside for any specific business type. The...
This federal grant award to the University of Houston System (UHS) is for a project titled "Building Lasting Capacity for Water Management in Vulnerable Deltas of Indochina". The $598,435.23 grant is funded by NASA to develop a comprehensive system for monitoring and forecasting water resources in the Mekong, Red, and Chao Phraya river basins in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. The project aims to reach Application Readiness Level (ARL) 7-9 by 2019 for products and applications using satellite data for virtual stream gauging, groundwater storage monitoring, precipitation and runoff forecasting, reservoir outflow estimation, land subsidence monitoring, and coastal sea level change tracking. This aligns with NASA's goal to support the needs of the SERVIR-Mekong program. The grant does not have a set-aside designation.