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Federal Grant Award Summary Remote Sensing Systems received a $395,809 Project Grant from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2027. Under this award, the company will execute a balanced science program aligned with guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, while supporting the agency's strategic priorities and congressional direction. As a key partner in NASA's science initiatives, Remote...

Remote Sensing Systems received a $149,885 Project Grant award from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) on May 14, 2025, to enhance the accessibility of NASA-sponsored datasets for climate modeling through the Observations for Model Intercomparison Projects (OBS4MIPS) initiative. The project, to be completed by May 13, 2026, focuses on making observational data more available and useful for climate model evaluation and research by aligning datasets with the standards of the...

CAREER: AI for the Digital Planet – Advancing Machine Learning for Satellite Remote Sensing Arizona State University received a $344,819 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE Program, CFDA 47.070) beginning July 1, 2025, and concluding June 30, 2030. This CAREER award supports fundamental machine learning research designed to advance the analysis and application of satellite remote sensing data. The project will deliver four...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) received a $135,709 project grant from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) awarded on March 1, 2025, with a completion date of February 28, 2030. The award supports RSS in providing calibration and validation services for the MetOp-SG Microwave Imager (MWI) instrument on behalf of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). This work leverages RSS's core expertise in...

This two-year, $255,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a new remote sensing technique for measuring seismic waves at Michigan Technological University. The researchers will enhance the Moiré technique, which images patterns from differential motion between grids, by placing one grid on a remote location using an unmanned aerial vehicle and the other within a base telescope. This will enable measurement of...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $730,524 will fund the development of new statistical methods for computer-assisted inversion to improve analysis of global remote sensing data from July 2022 to June 2025. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Trustees of Boston University will receive funding to advance the transformation of satellite-based remotely sensed data into useful climate and geophysical information. Specifically, the grantee will...

Under a $717,310 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will conduct research on using satellite imagery to study internal gravity waves in the atmosphere. The project aims to develop and automate image processing algorithms to measure and characterize the properties of these waves, which can modulate cloud formation and impact Earth's heat budget....

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $460,747 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop innovative remote sensing technologies and methodologies for precision agriculture. The 4-year project, running from October 2023 to May 2027, aims to recycle existing radio frequency (RF) communication and navigation signals to enable new remote sensing capabilities in microwave spectrum...

Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded $681,265 to the Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on July 1, 2025, for a three-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program focused on satellite and ground-based remote sensing. The award supports a year-long research program engaging undergraduate students from two- and four-year...

This $599,801 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a robust scientific community and accompanying cyberinfrastructure (CI) for using ground-based imagery to study environmental processes. The key deliverables include: Open-source software (GaugeCam, GRIME-AI) that streamlines and documents reproducible workflows for capturing and analyzing ground-based imagery. Benchmark data products, including data from PhenoCam...