This is a $95,461.28 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to support the NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Applications Program. The objective is to enhance linkages between CMS research and the carbon policy community, conducting applications research and facilitating engagement between CMS scientists and stakeholders who require innovative data products for decision-making. The grant aims to translate...
This is a $1,250,573.91 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop a Cropland Carbon Monitoring System (CCMS) prototype. The CCMS will use satellite remote sensing data and the EPIC agroecosystem model to estimate seasonal and annual carbon cycle components, including net primary production, net ecosystem productivity, and net ecosystem carbon balance, for major U.S. crops across the conterminous United States....
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to continue developing a framework for estimating high-resolution forest carbon stocks and dynamics using remote sensing and ecosystem modeling. The $1,229,573.24 grant aims to expand upon previous prototypes at the county/state-scale to cover the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) domain and ultimately the contiguous United States. Key objectives include...
This $1,040,595 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland, College Park will fund the development and testing of an Aquatic Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring System. The goal of the project is to integrate NASA remote sensing data, in situ measurements, and process-based modeling to monitor major organic carbon fluxes and stocks of inland waters through November 2024. The University of Maryland will serve as the prime...
This is a $1,720,555.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to continue developing and expanding their approach to high-resolution forest carbon monitoring and modeling. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Maryland, College Park, is a subcomponent of the larger University System of Maryland, which has received numerous federal contract and grant awards, including from the Department...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop accurate and precise monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems for biomass estimates and related change products. The $957,277.00 grant is for research and has an anticipated completion date of April 26, 2025. The University of Maryland, College Park is a U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college that has previously received...
This $106,465.61 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research on the impacts of sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, and other climate change effects on coastal wetland ecosystems. The research aims to develop remote sensing modeling techniques to assess the vulnerability of peat collapse and changes in blue carbon sequestration. UMD will leverage existing field observations in the Florida...
This is a $893,620.97 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on October 31, 2017 with a completion date of October 31, 2022. The grant aims to develop remote sensing-based and modeling tools to characterize, quantify, understand, and predict forest degradation in the tropical woodlands of the Miombo region of Southern Africa. The project has three key objectives: 1) Prototype a remote sensing-based approach to...
This is a $239,864.29 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park on August 19, 2015. The grant is part of the "Next Generation UAV Based Spectral Systems for Environmental Monitoring" major program, and the work will concentrate on utilizing project technology to examine the scaling in sub-pixel canopy cover estimates from polar orbiter satellite platforms. The grant will also fund the development of methods for...
This is a $239,886 grant awarded to the University of Maryland, College Park by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on linking forest biomass and carbon exchange using LiDAR-derived forest structure and airborne flux observations. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 11, 2026. The University of Maryland, College Park is a U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant institution of higher learning that has received various federal...
This $189,177.73 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park supports the development of a prototype system for monitoring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) regional-scale carbon stocks and fluxes under the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) program. The grant aims to expand the current scope of validation methods for CMS products by acquiring and analyzing airborne eddy covariance carbon flux observations over the Maryland Eastern Shore region. This will help characterize uncertainties in the high-resolution MRV system and assess the measurement requirements for airborne flux observations to quantify net carbon emissions and storage. The project is not associated with a set-aside designation and is part of a larger NASA effort to improve the evaluation of errors and uncertainties in CMS remote sensing-based approaches through the use of alternative validation methods.