This is a $840,079.86 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for a study titled "Towards Near Daily Monitoring of Inundated Areas over North America through Multi-Source Fusion of Optical and SAR Data." The goal is to develop automated algorithms to monitor terrestrial inundation using Landsat-8, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 satellite data. The algorithms will be calibrated and tested across different biomes...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop a global database of tree and water cover using multi-source satellite imagery. The $749,960 grant will refine existing Landsat-based maps of tree and water cover for 2000, 2005, and 2010, and then estimate annual tree and water cover from 2010 to 2015 across North and South America. The research will be partnered with the European Space Agency's...
This is a $265,351.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to assess the hydrological and ecological status and future sustainability of terminal lakes in the Great Basin of the western United States in consideration of ongoing and predicted climate change. The grant is part of UMD's broad portfolio of federal research contracts and grants, which includes work for agencies such as the Department of Defense,...
This is a $284,733.14 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for the "Improved Global Flood Monitoring and Forecasting with GPM Precipitation and Hydrological Models" project. The grant will focus on adapting the university's existing Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) to take advantage of improvements in the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for...
This is a $22,529.12 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for research on tracking freshwater resources from space for water management and decision-making in the Congo River basin. The award has a completion date of May 1, 2024 and does not have a set-aside designation. UMD is a U.S. state-controlled institution of higher education that has received numerous federal contract and grant...
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 $254,498.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research related to quantifying hydrologic and cryospheric changes and associated mechanisms. The scope of work includes constructing databases of ground-based snow depth and satellite-based passive microwave measurements, designing numerical experiments, analyzing model outputs, and supervising a Ph.D. student. The grant is part of a larger...
This $667,172.97 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to enhance agricultural monitoring capabilities in Tanzania and Uganda. The project aims to develop remote sensing monitoring systems, mobile data collection tools, and collaborative internet technologies to provide timely and accurate information on crop conditions. It will establish a GEOGLAM Crop Monitor system, facilitate use of satellite...
This $748,369.00 grant for research was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). The award is not set aside for any specific business type. The grant is for "Earth Observation-Based Monitoring and Forecasting of Rangeland Water Resources", which aligns with UMD's broad research capabilities in areas like environmental studies, climate change, and advanced computational methods. As a prominent research...
This is a $256,160.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to improve coupled atmosphere-ocean Earth system analyses and weather forecasts by directly assimilating data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The primary goal is to enhance understanding of the air-sea interface through advanced data assimilation techniques. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. UMD is a...
This is a $554,875.00 federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The purpose of the grant is to enhance and expand the G-REALM (Global Reservoir and Lake Monitoring) program, which provides near real-time water level data from satellite radar altimeters to stakeholders in the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. The key objectives are to increase the number of lakes and reservoirs monitored, extend the historical data record, improve product delivery time, and assess integrating inland fisheries data. This work will leverage new satellite data sets from missions like Jason-3, Sentinel-3A, and Sentinel-3B. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and runs through September 30, 2019.