This federal contract award is for a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) for the Operation IceBridge (OIB) program. The primary goal of OIB is to extend the altimetry record of the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) until the launch of ICESat-2, with the ultimate goal of generating continuous height-change time series over key regions of the ice sheets and sea ice.
The $431,300.00 grant will fund work by Scripps to identify and quantify any limitations of the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) swath altimetry data used in OIB, as well as design an OIB survey of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia to provide a common reference for comparing data across altimetry missions. Scripps will then use the ATM swath observations to cross-calibrate data from multiple satellite altimetry missions, including ICESat, ICESat-2, and CryoSat-2, to generate consistent long-duration time series over dynamic features like ice-shelf channels and grounding zones.
This contract does not have a set-aside designation. Scripps is the prime contractor, and the parent organization is the State of California Controller's Office.
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