Cooperative Agreement NR195C16XXXXC002

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817) provides $410,000.00 to the New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to collect high-quality Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data covering Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York. The project will update the existing elevation dataset, which is from 2014 and has a point spacing of 0.7 meters, to meet at minimum Quality Level 2...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreement (CFDA 15.674 National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance) provides $676,991 in funding to explore two applications of high-density LiDAR technology: Applying LiDAR vegetation data as inputs to the QUICFIRE fire behavior model to evaluate fuel treatment prescriptions and monitor model performance at management scales across priority landscapes in the U.S., including Alaska. Developing a LiDAR feature detection...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $712,258 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to acquire an integrated LiDAR and hyperspectral sensing system. The goal is to capture and integrate visible and invisible data using this new sensing system, which will be mounted on drones, robots, and ground vehicles to gather information in both indoor and outdoor environments. The rapid collection of these datasets...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $114,998 Cooperative Agreement to Northern Arizona University under the USGS Research and Data Collection Program (CFDA 15.808) to test the utility of terrestrial LiDAR scanning (TLS) in estimating key wildfire fuels variables. The 2-year project will develop methods to estimate fuel load, vegetation cover, and vertical plant density from TLS data combined with other remote sensing sources. The researchers will establish field plots across different...

This $299,937 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to Northern Arizona University aims to develop an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system capable of navigating dense forest environments to collect high-resolution 3D data on forest structure and biomass. The project, titled "Project Clearwing," will leverage previous terrestrial LiDAR scanning data as a...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $100,000 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) supports a project led by Wageningen University in the Netherlands to enhance forest monitoring capabilities through advanced satellite technology. The key activities include: Adapting deforestation alert methods to meet specific country needs and implementing them in open-source platforms like R, SEPAL, and Google Earth Engine to facilitate broader adoption...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) will fund a $499,999 research project at Arizona State University (ASU) to explore the dynamics of knowledge development and utilization in the field of biodiversity conservation. The project will compare the conservation knowledge referenced in Endangered Species Act recovery plans and delisting determinations to determine whether the "best available...

This $642,640.14 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management (CFDA 15.247) program supports a project at Montana State University (MSU) to improve area-based strategies for prioritizing conservation of biodiversity across BLM-managed lands. The project aims to develop more objective and effective methods for identifying important areas for maintaining functional habitats and conserving endemic...

The US Geological Survey, through its National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817), awarded a $197,452 cooperative agreement to the Commonwealth Office Of Technology on March 26, 2021 to complete by March 25, 2023. Under this award, the Commonwealth Office Of Technology will acquire LIDAR data for Kentucky from 2020-2021. The National Geospatial Program promotes the use of space-based land remote sensing data and technologies through collaborative state and local...

This $1,599,825 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The award aims to advance scientific theories and models of land use forecasting by integrating diverse, multi-scale data into dynamic prediction models to inform sustainable land use plans and prevent biodiversity and ecosystem service loss. The research will co-design decision support tools with scientists and policymakers in...