This $850,647.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montana State University to develop and implement a decision support system (DSS) for scenario planning, forecasting, policy development, and reporting related to Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) - Life on Land. The project aims to assist Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in meeting the Convention on Biodiversity 2020 targets by integrating Earth observation data and biological data to produce...
This $689,631 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education (Temple University) aims to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) for biodiversity conservation and management in Colombia. The DSS will integrate and analyze Earth observation data to inform biodiversity decision-making. The project includes case studies, stakeholder workshops, and capacity building to support the implementation of the...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Montana for a research project focused on modeling the likelihood of recruitment failure in semi-arid forests of the western United States. The $688,998.06 grant will support the integration of earth observation data, in-situ data, and a coupled ecohydrologic/plant hydraulics model to simulate indicators of seedling mortality, such as loss of hydraulic...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to develop a Dynamic Decision Support System (DSS) to monitor and forecast the health of chimpanzee habitats in Africa. The project, valued at $146,519.00, started on December 5, 2013 and will end on June 30, 2018. The DSS integrates 15 years of Earth observation data from Landsat with a chimpanzee habitat suitability model and a land use change forecasting model, enhanced by...
This federal contract award to Michigan State University (MSU) focuses on improving biodiversity modeling and forecasting by better incorporating geophysical and biological drivers across spatial and temporal scales. The $150,441 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will fund a series of workshops to review existing biodiversity modeling approaches, identify relevant data sets, and determine optimal derived remote sensing data products for use by the biodiversity...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to South Dakota State University (SDSU) for a project titled "Monitoring and Projecting Environmental Change in Fragmented Tropical Forest Landscapes". The $337,744.42 award is intended to develop a workflow for using Landsat satellite imagery to monitor tropical forest dynamics in the Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa, and to create a land change simulation model to project future forest...
This federal contract award is for a grant from the NASA Shared Services Center to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - United States (IUCN-US) for the project "From Eyes in the Sky to Boots on the Ground: Applying NASA Earth Observations to Protect Critical Forests in Mesoamerica through the IUCN STAR Program". The $998,456.00 award is for a research project that will run from January 1, 2024 to February 29, 2028. The project aims to utilize NASA Earth observation data...
This federal contract award, valued at $732,078.70, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to study wood biomass distributions and carbon cycle dynamics in the drought-seasonal savannas and woodlands of Africa. The award aims to develop improved remote sensing products, analyze current biomass distributions, project future biomass distributions under climate and land use change scenarios, investigate the presence and nature...
This is a $142,127.35 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montclair State University. The purpose of the project is to use semi-automated interpretation of high-resolution satellite imagery to assess changes in shrub cover and aboveground biomass in the Arctic tundra over a 10-15 year period. The goal is to provide data that can be used to validate lower spatial resolution remote sensing data products, initiate and calibrate ecological...
This federal contract award, valued at $103,278.86, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Montana to conduct research on the impacts of climate change on carbon release from forest disturbances in the western United States. The research project, which runs from September 1, 2015 to August 31, 2018, aims to investigate the resistance and resilience of forests to changes in disturbance regimes, such as fire, drought, and insects, and how these...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to Montana State University to develop a remote-sensing based decision support system (DSS) to enhance the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) geospatial portal. The goal is to produce ecological vital signs in support of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) and provide tools to enable decision-making on forest fragmentation and connectivity by countries implementing National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plans (NBSAPs). The $840,004 grant will fund the development of satellite-based products for mapping forest condition, human pressure, and forest integrity, as well as analyses of habitat fragmentation and connectivity. The DSS will be incorporated into the UNDP geospatial portal and demonstrated in 8 countries, with training and support provided to up to 135 countries. This award does not have a set-aside designation.