This NASA Shared Services Center contract was awarded to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to develop a dynamic decision support system to enhance the USGS SPARROW water quality model for the Southeastern United States. The $503,610.64 project will leverage remotely-sensed data and NASA Land Information System products to create a dynamic version of the SPARROW model that can provide seasonal estimates of nutrients and suspended sediment. The model outputs will support water...
This federal contract award is a grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The contract has a total potential value of $129,185.96 and a completion date of June 30, 2024. The purpose of the grant is to leverage existing projects to disseminate global surface water mapping from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data to global stakeholders. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. UAH...
This is a $206,786 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to create a prototype hardware and software infrastructure to improve water management in the San Joaquin River watershed in California. The project aims to integrate NASA's Earth science data products and models to address water management challenges in the region. Specifically, UAH will deliver two distinct elements under this agreement: (1) generating a...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AN58H, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a public research university. The $105,000.00 training grant is focused on utilizing microwave (MW) and thermal infrared (TIR) satellite data to estimate soil moisture (SM) and apply these estimates to a crop model. The goal is to enhance an agricultural decision support system, particularly in remote areas lacking...
This federal contract award of $286,490.89 was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a public research university. The contract is a grant for research focused on "ADVANCING ACCESS TO GLOBAL FLOOD MODELING AND ALERTING USING THE PDC DISASTERAWARE PLATFORM AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES". The contract is not set aside for any specific business classification. UAH is a non-profit organization, educational...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alabama Office For Sponsored Programs Division, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The $184,520.87 grant is for research aimed at improving the integration of remote sensing data into terrestrial hydrology models. Key aspects include developing a machine learning-based data assimilation approach to address issues with model and retrieval biases, as well as providing a pathway from data...
This federal contract award (Award ID: 80NSSC17K0370) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop the capabilities and methodology to assimilate synthetic data from the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Water Model (NWM). The goal is to enable the use of SWOT data to improve streamflow forecasting and flood prediction...
This federal contract award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is for a project to improve the representation of the physical atmosphere in air quality management decision support tools (DSTs) used for emissions control strategy development under State Implementation Plans (SIPs) to meet Clean Air Act health effects standards. The $1,046,854 grant will allow UAH to incorporate NASA satellite products such as surface skin temperature, insolation, and albedo into the Weather Research...
This federal contract award, valued at $402,026.00, was granted to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a public research university registered as a non-profit educational institution and state-controlled institution of higher learning. The contract, which is not set aside for a specific business classification, is for a research grant titled "LINKING CONVECTIVE PROCESSES AND SATELLITE LIGHTNING MEASUREMENTS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM MODERN ANALYSIS OF CLOUD, PRECIPITATION, AND LIGHTNING...
This is a $109,897 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Houston System to evaluate the use of Umbra high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for sustainable water management practices and flood inundation forecasts. The grant has a completion date of January 29, 2026 and is not associated with a set-aside program. The University of Houston System is a public university system that has...
This federal contract award is to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) for the development of a dynamic decision support system to enhance the USGS SPARROW water quality model for the Southeastern United States. The project aims to leverage remotely-sensed data and NASA Land Information System (LIS) products to create a dynamic version of the SPARROW model that can provide seasonal estimates of nutrients and suspended sediment. The $399,975 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center on March 23, 2017 with a completion date of December 31, 2021. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. UAH, as a public research university, will collaborate with the U.S. Geological Survey and other regional stakeholders to deliver this system that will help water managers in the Southeastern U.S. with decision-making related to aquatic habitat protection, harmful algal bloom planning, and ecosystem restoration.