Purchase Order NNG15HC03P

This is a $406,034.47 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research on the relationship between satellite measurements of solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) and vegetation reflectance, and their link to gross primary productivity (GPP) in northern boreal forests. The research aims to improve understanding of the ecophysiological mechanisms driving seasonal changes in plant photosynthesis and carbon cycling within these ecosystems....

This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). The $329,727 grant is for research to expand the geographic and temporal scope of the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) calibration and validation database. This database contains field and airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data that is used to calibrate GEDI's biomass algorithms, which could also support validation...

This is a delivery order awarded by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service to Management & Engineering Technologies International Inc. (Meti), a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business. The $114,880.28 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is to provide expert biomass quantification and estimation services in support of the SilvaCarbon program, which focuses on tropical forest measurement, monitoring, and management in Latin America. Meti will leverage its experience in...

This is a $580,649 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to evaluate biomass estimates from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar instrument. The project aims to leverage detailed ground-based forest data collected by NAU in the Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo, and the coniferous forests of western North America to improve GEDI's ability to estimate forest biomass, a critical component of the global carbon...

Management & Engineering Technologies International Inc. (Meti) has been awarded a $29,305.98 delivery order against the Silvacarbon Biomass Measurement Expert contract by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee order has a completion date of December 31, 2022 and was awarded on June 16, 2022 with no set-aside designation specified. Under the order, Meti will provide expert services to support the Forest Service's biomass...

This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for research related to quantifying the relationship between biomass density and expected error from three future NASA missions: GEDI, NISAR, and ICESat-2. The key objectives of the research are to identify sources of error in high biomass forests, assess data fusion techniques to increase accuracy of aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation, and...

This federal contract award to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) supports research to convert measurements from the NASA ICESat-2 satellite into estimates of aboveground vegetation structure and biomass, combining the satellite data with L-band radar measurements. The $309,637.55 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will develop a methodology to map forest biomass density across diverse global ecosystems with...

This federal contract award to Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University) is for a research project focused on using NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite data to monitor agricultural productivity. The contract, worth $464,576.99, aims to develop a new satellite product that can quantify above-ground biomass and net primary production in major agricultural regions. The project will also determine the relationship between SMAP measurements and...

This is a delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service International Programs to Management & Engineering Technologies International Inc. (Meti), a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business. The $148,080.32 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract requires Meti to provide carbon modeling and projection advisory services to support the Forest Service's international forestry programs, which focus on sustainable forest management and natural resource...

This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan Technological University is a $729,288 grant for research to assess the utility of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite data for monitoring organic soil moisture in boreal and arctic ecosystems. The goal is to improve models for fire danger prediction by comparing the SMAP data to ground-based measurements, weather-based indices, and other soil moisture data sources. The research...