Purchase Order AG9AD6P140101

This is a $96,500.00 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station to Geospatial Measurement Solutions, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the delivery of a science paper regarding the need for a data-based approach to large outdoor fires for fire modeling validation. The contract has no set-aside designation, indicating Geospatial Measurement Solutions, LLC competes for these specialized services in an open...

This is a $7,200.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Pacific Southwest Research Station, a civilian agency within the U.S. government. The contract was awarded to Lynn Wolden, a woman-owned small business, on July 15, 2015, with a due date of December 10, 2015. The contract requires the vendor to provide a finalized database of imagery and associated vegetation and environmental data layers with metadata for the 2006 Esperanza Fire, including areas of the North Mountain...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Pacific Northwest Research Station awarded a $142,952.04 firm fixed-price contract to Geospatial Measurement Solutions, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to write and submit a journal article detailing the methods and results of mapping vegetation and deriving spread rate from aerial imagery at the 2014 Camp Swift Fire Experiment and the 2012 RxCADRE effort. This contract was awarded on a sole source basis and did not...

This delivery order, valued at $35,020.32 under a cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangement, was awarded to Management & Engineering Technologies International Inc. (Meti) on May 2, 2024, for Brazil fire consultant services supporting the U.S. Forest Service International Programs. The order was terminated effective January 30, 2025. Meti, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in El Paso, Texas, was selected without a set-aside designation. The work was performed in Washington,...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop a Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) burned area product that will continue the 17-year Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) record into the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) era. The $345,163 grant will fund the completion of the existing prototype VNP64A1 production code,...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Research Service Pacific Northwest Research Station has awarded a $79,893.55 firm-fixed price contract to Geospatial Measurement Solutions, LLC to provide consultation services on strategies for archiving integrated datasets for fire model evaluation. The contract requires the integration of data from 2012 RxCADRE research burns into geospatial databases and an ArcGIS Online website, as well as conducting a workshop on data integration...

The University of Maryland, College Park received a $110,000 research grant from the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to support maintenance of the MODIS Global Active Fire and Burned Area Product. The contract, awarded on October 1, 2024, runs through September 30, 2026, and represents a non-set-aside award made directly to the university's Office of Research Administration & Advancement. MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data products are critical...

The National Park Service's National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call to Planet Labs PBC for fire incident remote sensing satellite imagery subscription services. The contract, valued at $46,482.38 on a firm fixed-price basis, was awarded on July 10, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of July 9, 2024. Planet Labs PBC, a San Francisco-based commercial provider of high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial data solutions, will deliver...

This is a $1,212,457.17 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to the University Corporation at Monterey Bay (UCMB), a non-profit organization affiliated with California State University, Monterey Bay. The contract is for the "Integration of NASA Earth Science Information into a Wildfire Collaborative Decision Environment (W-CDE)". The objective is to enhance the existing W-CDE capabilities to support pre-, active-, and post-fire assessments. This will be achieved...

This is a $455,920.57 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to develop a physically-based global satellite precipitation climate data record (CDR) extending back to the launch of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) satellite in 1987. The goal is to leverage work done for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to create a homogeneous long-term precipitation dataset that eliminates the need for empirical...