Purchase Order 80NSSC18P2104
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- This is a $149,616.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Geovisual Technologies Inc., a small business focused on agricultural AI and remote sensing. The contract is for research and development services related to applying deep learning techniques to analyze Earth observation data and map land use and land cover changes. This work supports NASA's SBIR program, which provides funding for small...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lynntech, Inc., a small business, in collaboration with Southern Methodist University (SMU) Earth Sciences. The contract has a potential value of $125,000.00 and is for the development of a new deep learning-based toolkit to enhance the fidelity of results derived from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) interferograms....
- This is a $599,223 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to evaluate the integrated use of Landsat and Sentinel 2 satellite data in identifying and mapping the extent of major commodity crops like wheat, corn, and soybean. The goal is to improve the accuracy of crop type identification and areal extent estimation across diverse cropping systems. The project will use higher temporal resolution MODIS data as a...
- This is a $124,955 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Geovisual Technologies Inc., a small business artificial intelligence company specializing in agriculture. The contract was awarded under Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a total small business set aside. The contract is for multi-resolution deep learning research for land use applications. Geovisual Technologies Inc. has...
- This federal contract award (NNX17AH48G) was granted to the University of Maryland, College Park by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a global agricultural monitoring tool focused on providing early warning of vegetation stress. The $149,835.97 grant aims to leverage NASA's Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) and integrate additional data sources like microwave land surface temperature retrievals to enhance drought monitoring capabilities. The tool will serve...
- This is a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Geovisual Technologies Inc., a for-profit artificial intelligence company specializing in agriculture. The $749,317.00 firm fixed price contract is for developing an operational capability to deliver high-resolution, accurate, and up-to-date land cover classifications and forecasts of agricultural and ecological changes. This...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $616,741 research grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) to develop new crop mapping and yield estimation products using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Sentinel satellite systems. The grant aims to prototype a generalized approach for monitoring major crops like wheat, corn, and soybeans across large agricultural regions globally. It will leverage multi-temporal optical and microwave satellite data,...
- This is a $101,618 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning and Cloud Computing for Predicting Dynamics of Global Vegetation Structure from Active Satellite Sensors". The award has a period of performance through November 2, 2023 and does not utilize a set-aside. UMD, a state-controlled institution of higher learning, will provide...
- This is a $100,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The award is intended to provide in-season information about crop conditions and production prospects in major grain export countries like the United States and Russia, using earth observation data and machine learning analysis. This will help stabilize agricultural markets impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited government access to collect...
- This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23K0246, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). The $718,015.00 grant is for a research project titled "EO-ENABLED REGIONAL AND NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL MONITORING IN WEST AFRICA" and has a period of performance through December 31, 2025. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, is known for its...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Kitware Inc., a for-profit software company, with a subcontract to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $124,983 contract supports the development of an open-source deep learning platform called DEEPRES, which will leverage multi-temporal, multi-source satellite data (including Sentinel-1/2 and Landsat-8) and state-of-the-art techniques in computer vision and data fusion to perform crop type classification and characterization. This capability aims to benefit stakeholders in the environmental and agricultural domains by providing access to advanced analytics tools. The University of Maryland will likely contribute domain expertise and data management capabilities to support the project. As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract represents an early-stage research and development effort to demonstrate technical feasibility before potential further investment.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00001 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 2/12/19 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $125.0k | 7/27/18 |