This is a $350,683 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD), specifically its Scripps Institution of Oceanography division. The grant is for a project titled "Multimodal Observations of Climate-Forced Surface Deformation and Change Using NISAR and ICESat-2", which aligns with NASA's focus on Earth science research and climate monitoring. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. UCSD, a...
The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $665,939 grant award from NASA on March 9, 2023, for research titled "Strain Rate and Moment Rate in Western North America from InSAR and GNSS." The project, led by David Sandwell at UCSD in collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Hawaii, and CICESE in Mexico, addresses two critical surface deformation science questions from NASA's 2016 Earth Science...
This is a $339,644.46 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant supports a 3-year research project to measure the seismic moment accumulation rate and crustal strain rate along the San Andreas Fault System using a combination of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The project aims to improve processing methods for...
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...
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 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...
This is a $468,288.56 grant awarded by NASA to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography to measure tectonic crustal strain rates along the San Andreas Fault system using a combination of InSAR and GNSS data. The goal is to accurately forecast large-scale geological hazards in a socially relevant timeframe by achieving an average velocity accuracy of 0.5 mm/yr over 10 km. This will require applying several corrections to the InSAR data, including solid...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC19K1640, was granted to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division for continued membership on the NISAR Science Definition Team. The $370,715.00 grant will support Scripps' efforts over a three-year period to guide the NISAR mission through its anticipated launch in 2020. Scripps Oceanography is a renowned center for ocean and earth science research, and this award leverages the institution's...
This federal contract award to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division, worth $382,501.00, supports research on processing and modeling large volumes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to study the aftermath of major earthquakes in the Tibetan Plateau region. The research aims to improve understanding of earthquake cycle mechanisms, deformation processes, and seismic hazards. This contract is not set aside and is funded by the National...
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) was awarded a $415,548 research grant on October 26, 2022, for NISAR Products, Calibration/Validation, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. This non-set-aside grant, managed through a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center, supports research activities to be conducted at UCI's Irvine, California campus with an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2026. The NASA Imaging Radar (NISAR) mission represents a collaborative...
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 groundwater systems, which align with the mission's science and application goals. The grant recipient has extensive experience in these research areas and will provide input on algorithm and data product development. This grant does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Scripps' status as a large educational institution. The parent organization of the prime contractor, UCSD, is the State of California Controller's Office, which has a history of participating in federal contracts and grants, including defense-related projects.