Training Grant NNX16AO65H
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- 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...
- The Trustees of Boston University received a $354,982.50 research grant from NASA's Shared Services Center, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2024. This grant supports research focused on large-scale and continuous patterns of forest carbon monitoring, which aligns with NASA's Carbon Monitoring Program and Terrestrial Ecology Program objectives. The project utilizes Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) remote sensing technology to capture vertical forest structure on a wall-to-wall...
- 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 Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The $131,043.37 training grant supports the development of an integrated observation and modeling framework to monitor the long-term sustainability of global rangelands. This research aims to address a key knowledge gap by leveraging remote sensing data from NASA to quantify the sensitivity of rangelands to...
- 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 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 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...
- The federal contract award, valued at $443,606.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for a research project that will combine remote sensing and social science methods to measure and predict the relative effectiveness of conservation instruments, such as protected areas, land acquisitions for conservation, and payments for environmental services, in...
- This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been granted to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract, awarded on September 1, 2015, is valued at $396,212.00 and has a completion date of August 31, 2019. The objective of this research contract is to develop a theoretical basis for retrieving leaf biochemical constituents, canopy geometric structures, foliage surface characteristics, and...
- 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 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 and reduce uncertainty in the role of forest degradation in anthropogenic carbon emissions. The research will be conducted in collaboration with the Department of National Parks of Thailand. This contract is part of NASA's broader program to improve activity data for carbon emissions from forest degradation through multi-sensor time series.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($17k) | 4/21/20 | ||
| 4 | Funding Only Action | ($17k) | 4/21/20 | |
| Not listed | $45.0k | 8/7/18 | ||
| 3 | Funding Only Action | $45.0k | 8/7/18 | |
| 2 | Funding Only Action | $45.0k | 6/1/17 |