← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of Mass At Boston
$20,977,421
Total funding
51
Grants
Funding over time
peak $4.5M · FY2008–24$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$10,034,763 · 27
DOD$7,907,914 · 18
DOE$3,034,744 · 6
By mechanism
—$20,977,421 · 51
Investigators at University Of Mass At Boston
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
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Largest grants
EXAMINING THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF GULF WAR VETERANS AND THE SUBSEQUENT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN CORRECTION MADE DUE TO TRANSFER OF AWARD WITH MODIFICATION P00001.$964,228
· FY2022 · Defense Health Agency
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BOSTON ENVIRONMENTAL AREA COASTAL OBSERVATION NETWORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON$941,429
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FORKHEAD-DOMAIN MISSENSE MUTATIONS OF FOXA1 IN DRIVING PROSTATE CANCER PROGRESSION$900,773
· FY2019 · Defense Health Agency
IN FLOATING FORESTS WE SEEK TO HARNESS TO POWER OF LANDSAT DATA AND CITIZEN SCIENCE TO UNDERSTAND HOW AND WHY GIANT KELP FORESTS HAVE CHANGED AROUND THE PLANET OVER THE PAST THIRTY YEARS. MOREOVER WE HOPE TO USE OUR CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT AS A TEST CASE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE FOR THE CREATION OF ONLINE LANDSAT-BASED CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS AT THE ZOONIVERSE (HTTP:// ZOONIVERSE.ORG). LAST WE SEEK TO ENHANCE ENGAGEMENT FOR THIS AND FUTURE PROJECTS VIA THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACCESSIBLE VISUALIZATION TOOLS AND CURRICULA FOR UNIVERSITY AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. DURING THE PROTOTYPE PHASE WE COMPLETED A TOTAL OVERHAUL OF OUR LANDSAT IMAGE PROCESSING PIPELINE FOR CREATING IMAGERY FOR CITIZEN SCIENCE CLASSIFICATION. WE CONDUCTED A BETA AND COMPLETE RELAUNCH OF OUR PLATFORM AT HTTP://FLOATINGFORESTS.ORG WHICH INCLUDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SMARTPHONE APP. THIS HAS SEEN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CLASSIFICATIONS AND OVER ONE THOUSAND UNIQUE USERS SINCE THE LAUNCH ON DECEMBER 13 2017. WE DEVELOPED AND TESTED A UNIVERSITY LEVEL SET OF LAB EXERCISES WITH FLOATING FORESTS AT ITS CORE AT A PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE AND MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTION. WE MADE AVAILABLE ALL OF THE DATA FROM VERSION 1.0 OF OUR PLATFORM WHICH CONSISTED OF ~750 000 CLASSIFICATIONS. LAST WE USED THIS DATA TO VALIDATE OUR CITIZEN SCIENCE BASED APPROACH TO LANDSAT CLASSIFICATION AND FOUND THAT OUR CONSENSUS BASED CLASSIFICATION APPROACH AGREED VERY WELL WITH EXPERT CLASSIFICATIONS. IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE WE WILL EXPAND FLOATING FORESTS TO MAP CHANGE IN GLOBAL KELP COVER FROM THE 1980S TO THE PRESENT. WE WILL IDENTIFY TRENDS IN GLOBAL KELP COVER EXAMINE WHETHER KELP RANGE LIMITS HAVE SHIFTED AND ASSESS THE DEGREE TO WHICH THESE SHIFTS ARE RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE. WE WILL BUILD AND DEPLOY A USER FRIENDLY GENERALIZED INTERFACE FOR CREATING A LANDSAT- BASED CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT AND DEMONSTRATE IT AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TO FACILITATE ITS ADOPTION. WE WILL BUILD ADDITIONAL VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR LANDSAT-BASED PROJECTS TO ALLOW CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO QUICKLY AND EASILY WORK WITH OUR DATA. WE WILL COUPLE THIS WITH ITERATED VERSIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY-LEVEL CURRICULA THAT GROW WITH THESE TOOLS. LAST WE WILL MAINTAIN A CONSISTENT DATA PIPELINE SO THAT KELP FOREST CITIZEN AND PROFESSIONAL SCIENTISTS HAVE EASY DIRECT ACCESS TO OUR DATA.$804,443
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING OF DISSIPATION FROM MICROSCOPY OF CHEMICALLY ACTIVE MATERIALS$749,999
· FY2023 · Department of Energy
USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF WARMING ON NEW ENGLAND KELP FORESTS.$742,226
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE PRESENT MODIS STANDARD PRODUCTS FOR THE OCEANS INCLUDE THE ABOVE-SURFACE PHOTOSYNTHETIC AVAILABLE RADIATION (PAR(0+)) AND THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION$721,455
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A CHROMOPHORIC DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER (CDOM) OBSERVATORY$692,402
· FY2009 · Department of the Navy
LAND SURFACE ALBEDO AND THE RELATED SURFACE REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY (AS DESCRIBED BY THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION OR BRDF) IS A$644,253
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TARGETING FOXA1 METHYLATION IN CASTRATION-RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER.$610,000
· FY2021 · Defense Health Agency
TAS::89 0222::TAS; NEW; ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NORTHEAST COASTAL WATERSHED GEOSPATIAL DATA NETWORK; ZONG-GUO XIA, PI$583,009
· FY2010 · Department of Energy
IDENTIFICATION OF EARLY CONTRIBUTORS TO BRCA1-MUTATION-DRIVEN BREAST CANCER$571,849
· FY2017 · Department of the Army
INHIBITING LYSINE-SPECIFIC DEMETHYLASE 1 ACTIVITY AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT FOR CASTRATION-RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER$571,801
· FY2019 · Defense Health Agency
LAND ALBEDO PLAYS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET BY DETERMINING THE PROPORTION OF INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION WHICH IS AVAILABLE TO DRIVE PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND SURFACE HEATING AND THAT WHICH IS REFLECTED DIRECTLY BACK TO SPACE. IN NORTHERN HIGH LATITUDE REGIONS THE ALBEDO OF SNOW COVERED VEGETATION EVEN DECIDUOUS FORESTS THAT ARE LEAFLESS IN WINTER IS QUITE HIGH (BRIGHT) WHILE THE ALBEDO OF BOREAL EVERGREEN CONIFERS CAN EITHER BE QUITE LOW (DARK) (EVEN WITH EXTENSIVE SNOW LYING UNDER THE CANOPY) OR RATHER BRIGHT DEPENDING ON THE STRUCTURE AND DENSITY OF THE CANOPY. AS A RESULT SURFACE ALBEDO IS AN ESSENTIAL VARIABLE FOR WEATHER CLIMATE HYDROLOGIC AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING PARTICULARLY IN SEASONALLY SNOW COVERED REGIONS. HOWEVER SURFACE ALBEDO AN INTRINSIC QUALITY OF THE EARTH S SURFACE VARIES BOTH TEMPORALLY AND SPATIALLY AS A FUNCTION OF SURFACE TYPE SURFACE STRUCTURE/COVER AND ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS WITH DRAMATIC AND RAPID ALTERATIONS OCCURRING IN RESPONSE TO SEASONAL SNOW FALL AND MELT WATER FLUCTUATIONS AND FLOODING AND VEGETATION PHENOLOGY AS WELL AS NATURAL DISTURBANCES SUCH AS STORM DAMAGE WILDFIRES AND INSECT INFESTATION AND LAND USE SUCH AS AGRICULTURE GRAZING FORESTRY AND URBAN EXPANSION. THESE CHANGES MAY BE QUITE HETEROGENEOUS IN EXTENT YET CONTRIBUTE GREATLY TO THE LOCAL SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET AND ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY. SUCH GLOBAL VARIABILITY CAN ONLY BE CAPTURED WITH FREQUENT AND DETAILED REMOTE SENSING ACQUISITIONS YET NO SINGLE CURRENT SPACE-BASED SENSOR PROVIDES BOTH THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION REQUIRED. CLOUD-FREE NEAR-NADIR IMAGERY SUCH AS FROM THE LANDSAT-8 OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER (OLI) AND THE SENTINEL-2A/ B MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERS (MSI) PROVIDES EXCELLENT INFORMATION ON THE SURFACE HETEROGENEITY AND VEGETATION STATUS OVER LAND AND IN COMBINATION OFFER A GREATLY IMPROVED TEMPORAL RESOLUTION (ESPECIALLY AT HIGHER LATITUDES). HOWEVER NEAR-NADIR DIRECTIONAL SURFACE REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS ARE NOT A SATISFACTORY PROXY FOR ALBEDO OFTEN MISREPRESENTING LAND ALBEDO VALUES BY SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGES; ADDITIONAL MULTI-ANGLE REFLECTANCE INFORMATION IS REQUIRED TO ACCURATELY CAPTURE THE FULL EFFECTS OF SURFACE REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY AND TO PRODUCE REALISTIC BIHEMISPHERICAL ALBEDO QUANTITIES. THEREFORE DAILY ESTIMATES OF SURFACE ANISOTROPY FROM MULTI-ANGLE OBSERVATIONS ACQUIRED BY WIDE-SWATH SENSORS SUCH AS THE MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) OR THE VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) CAN BE COUPLED WITH THE HIGH QUALITY NEAR-NADIR REFLECTANCE IMAGES OF HIGHER RESOLUTION AS PRODUCED BY LANDSAT 8 AND SENTINEL-2A/B TO PRODUCE IMPROVED TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION ESTIMATES OF THE TRUE LAND SURFACE ALBEDO PARTICULARLY IN RESPONSE TO SEASONAL VARIATION SNOW COVER AND ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE. THE IMPROVED COMBINED FREQUENCY OF ACQUISITION AT HIGHER LATITUDES AND THE HIGH RADIOMETRIC FIDELITY OFFERED BY LANDSAT-8 AND SENTINEL-2A/B (WHICH GREATLY EXCEEDS THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE EARLIER LANDSAT SENSORS) OFFER A MUCH-IMPROVED ABILITY TO QUANTIFY THE ALBEDO EFFECTS OF SNOW COVERED LAND SURFACES. OUR TEAM HAS CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH MODIS VIIRS LANDSAT AND NOW SENTINEL 2 DATA (AMONG OTHER SATELLITE IMAGERS) AS WELL AS FAMILIARITY WITH THE HARMONIZED LANDSAT- SENTINEL-2 (HLS) DATASET CURRENTLY BEING PREPARED BY THE MUSLI TEAM. THEREFORE WE ARE UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO ADDRESS THE DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL ANGULAR SPECTRAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION INHERENT IN THIS MULTISOURCE EFFORT. THE PRODUCTION OF HIGHER RESOLUTION ALBEDOS AT INCREASED TEMPORAL FREQUENCIES IN THESE HIGHLY DYNAMIC AND HETEROGENEOUS HIGH LATITUDE ECOSYSTEMS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ONGOING CLIMATE AND ENERGY BUDGET MODELLING EFFORTS AND WILL ALLOW GREATER INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE AND CHANGE AND THE RESULTANT DRIVERS ON THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET AND RADIATIVE FORCING.$560,720
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
OUR OVERARCHING GOAL IS TO DEVELOP ROBUST ALGORITHMS TO RETRIEVE WATER QUALITY PROPERTIES FROM SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR DATA MEASURED OVER OPTICALLY SHA$557,952
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
LAND SURFACE ALBEDO IS AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE (ECV) REQUIRED TO INITIALIZE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET MODELS AND ESTIMATE SURFACE RADIATIVE FORCING FROM BOTH SNOW COVERED AND SNOW FREE EARTH SURFACES. ALBEDO IS GOVERNED BY THE LAND SURFACE REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY (WHICH IS DESCRIBED BY THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION OR BRDF). THEREFORE SATELLITE-DERIVED BRDF RETRIEVALS CAPTURE AN INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THE STRUCTURE AND CONDITION OF THE SURFACE COVER. DAILY VIEW ANGLE CORRECTED NADIR BRDF-ADJUSTED REFLECTANCE (NBAR) VALUES ARE INCREASINGLY BEING USED TO DRIVE LAND COVER AND VEGETATION PHENOLOGY ESTIMATES MONITOR FORESTS RANGE LANDS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND HEALTH AND ASSESS THE IMPACT OF NATURAL AND MANMADE DISTURBANCES. THUS THE DAILY GLOBAL MODIS BRDF ALBEDO AND NBAR PRODUCTS (ACCOMPANIED BY EXTENSIVE QUALITY AND UNCERTAINTY INFORMATION) HAVE BEEN EMBRACED BY THE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL MODELING AND MONITORING COMMUNITIES NECESSITATING A CONTINUITY OF PRODUCTION INTO THE SUOMI-NPP ERA. WHILE THE ALGORITHM FOR THE DAILY BRDF/ALBEDO/NBAR PRODUCTS RELIES ON CLOUD-FREE MULTI-DATE MULTI-ANGLE SURFACE REFLECTANCE DATA TO ESTABLISH APPROPRIATE GRIDDED PIXEL LEVEL BRDF ESTIMATES A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE SINGLE DAY OF INTEREST ENSURES THAT THESE RETRIEVALS ARE ABLE TO CAPTURE RAPID DAILY VARIATIONS IN ALBEDO AND NBAR. THESE DAILY ALBEDO AND NBAR VALUES ARE CURRENTLY PROVIDING IMPROVED MONITORING OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS AND RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH VEGETATION GROWTH AND SENESCENCE SNOW FALL AND SNOW MELT RIVERINE AND COASTAL VARIATIONS AND LAND COVER DISTURBANCE. A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS OF THIS PRESENT EFFORT WILL BE ON THE PRODUCTION OF IMPROVED ESTIMATES OF HIGH LATITUDE SNOW AND ICE ALBEDO. ROBUST MEASURES OF UNCERTAINTY EXTENSIVE QUALITY FLAGS AND DETAILED DOCUMENTATION WILL CONTINUE TO BE PRODUCED TO ENSURE LONG TERM SCIENCE QUALITY GLOBAL SUOMI- NPP VIIRS BRDF ALBEDO AND NBAR PRODUCTS.$533,619
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE PROPOSE TO 1) COMPILE A HYPERSPECTRAL RRS-IOPS DATASET FROM FIELD MEASUREMENTS; 2) IMPROVE THE ESTIMATION OF SSIOP FROM OCEAN COLOR; 3) REVISE THE$523,268
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE SUOMI-NPP AND JPSS ALBEDO BRDF AND NBAR PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM CLIMATE-QUALITY CONTINUITY WITH THE MORE THAN TWO DECADES OF MODIS PRODUCTS PROVIDED BY THE TERRA AND AQUA MISSIONS. LAND SURFACE ALBEDO IS AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE (ECV) REQUIRED BY CLIMATE WEATHER HYDROLOGIC AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELERS TO QUANTIFY THE REFLECTIVE CHARACTER OF LAND SURFACES AND THUS ESTIMATE THE SURFACE RADIATIVE FORCING. LAND SURFACE ALBEDO VARIES WIDELY IN SPACE AND TIME AND IS DEPENDENT ON THE LAND COVER VEGETATION STRUCTURE SEASONAL PHENOLOGY VEGETATION CONDITION AND HEALTH SNOW COVER AND DISTURBANCE. THE VIIRS PRODUCTS FROM THE SUOMI-NPP AND THE JPSS (CURRENTLY NOAA-20) MISSIONS PROVIDE DAILY GRIDDED GLOBAL ESTIMATES OF THIS SURFACE VARIABILITY AS BOTH STANDARD PRODUCTS AND AS LANCE NRT PRODUCTS. IN COMPARISONS WITH TOWER ALBEDO DATA FROM SPATIALLY REPRESENTATIVE SITES THEY HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO CAPTURE THE RAPID DAILY VARIATIONS IN ALBEDO CAUSED BY EPHEMERAL SNOWFALL AND MELT SEASONAL PHENOLOGICAL CHANGES AND DISTURBANCE. THE INTRINSIC SURFACE REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY IS DETERMINED BY FITTING BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF) MODELS TO MULTI-ANGLE CLOUD-FREE SATELLITE REFLECTANCE OBSERVATIONS OF EACH GRID LOCATION. THESE BRDF ESTIMATES ARE THEN INTEGRATED HEMISPHERICALLY OVER ALL VIEW AND ILLUMINATION GEOMETRIES TO GENERATE INTRINSIC WHITE SKY ALBEDO (BIHEMISPHERICAL REFLECTANCE) AND OVER ALL VIEW ANGLES AT A PARTICULAR SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE TO GENERATE BLACK SKY ALBEDO (DIRECTIONAL-HEMISPHERICAL REFLECTANCE AT LOCAL SOLAR NOON). THE BRDF QUANTITIES ARE ALSO USED TO CORRECT DIRECTIONAL SURFACE REFLECTANCES TO A COMMON VIEW ANGLE (E.G. THE NADIR BRDF-ADJUSTED SURFACE REFLECTANCES (NBAR) PRODUCT) AND TO ESTIMATE MEASURES OF SURFACE CANOPY CLUMPING AND STRUCTURE. THE STANDARD VIIRS VIEW-ANGLE-CORRECTED NBAR PRODUCT (PROVIDED AT LOCAL SOLAR NOON) ARE ALSO USED TO GENERATE DOWNSTREAM VIIRS PHENOLOGY PRODUCTS AS WELL AS TO MONITOR THE CONDITION OF FORESTS RANGE LANDS AGRICULTURAL FIELDS AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISTURBANCES (HARVEST DEVELOPMENT FIRE DROUGHT FLOODING STORM DAMAGE ETC.). THE MATURE AND WELL DOCUMENTED DAILY GLOBAL VIIRS ALBEDO BRDF AND NBAR PRODUCTS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY EXTENSIVE QUALITY AND UNCERTAINTY INFORMATION AND THESE HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS ARE BEING EMBRACED BY GLOBAL AND REGIONAL MODELING AND MONITORING COMMUNITIES TO EXTEND THE LONG TERM RECORD BEGUN WITH THE MODIS INSTRUMENTS INTO THE FUTURE. THUS THIS EFFORT IS FOCUSED ON THE CONTINUED MAINTENANCE OF HERITAGE SUOMI-NPP AND JPSS VIIRS ALBEDO BRDF AND NBAR PRODUCTS TO PROVIDE A CONSISTENT CLIMATE QUALITY RECORD OF THE RADIATIVE CHARACTER OF THE EARTH S LAND SURFACES.$501,822
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT AT 490 NM KD(490) IS ONE OF THE STANDARD OCEAN DATA PRODUCTS OF THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS) WHICH REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE EARTH DATA RECORDS (EDR). TRADITIONALLY AND EVEN TODAY ITS DERIVATION FROM SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR MEASUREMENTS TAKES THE SAME APPROACH AS THAT FOR PRODUCING CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION ([CHL]) I.E. USING THE BLUE-GREEN RATIOS OF REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE (RRS) AS THE SOLE INPUT TO EMPIRICALLY GENERATE THE DESIRED PRODUCT. SUCH AN APPROACH IS GENERALLY APPROPRIATE FOR DERIVING [CHL] IN OCEANIC (OR CASE-1) WATERS BUT IS SUBJECT TO INHERENT AMBIGUITY AND ERRORS FOR KD(490) FOR BOTH OCEANIC AND COASTAL WATERS. THIS IS BECAUSE THAT THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT IS AN APPARENT OPTICAL PROPERTY I.E. IT VARIES WITH SUN ANGLE WHILE [CHL] DOES NOT. WE PROPOSE TO UPGRADE THIS ATTENUATION PRODUCT FROM TWO ASPECTS: 1) REMOVE THE SUN- ANGLE RELATED AMBIGUITY AND 2) IMPROVE DATA QUALITY THROUGH A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY. TO ACHIEVE THIS UPGRADE WE PROPOSE TO GENERATE THE NORMALIZED DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT AT 490 NM NKD(490) FROM THE RRS PRODUCTS PROVIDED BY SUOMI NPP VIIRS. NKD(490) IS DEFINED AS THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR THE SUN AT ZENITH WITH A BLACK SKY WHICH MATCHES THE DEFINITION OF THE NORMALIZED WATER-LEAVING RADIANCE (NLW) FOR SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR MISSIONS. THIS NKD(490) PRODUCT IS THUS NOT ONLY CLEAR IN ITS REPRESENTATION BUT ALSO FACILITATES ITS EVALUATION WITH FIELD MEASUREMENTS. IN ADDITION BECAUSE NKD(490) WILL BE PRODUCED THROUGH A MECHANISTIC SYSTEM ROOTED IN THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY THIS PRODUCT WILL HAVE HIGHER SCIENCE QUALITY FOR THE GLOBAL OCEANS IN PARTICULAR FOR TURBID COASTAL WATERS. FURTHERMORE BECAUSE THE SEMI-ANALYTICAL SYSTEM TAKES A STEP-WISE APPROACH FOR THE CALCULATION OF NKD(490) AN UNCERTAINTY MAP OF THE NKD(490) PRODUCT WILL ALSO BE GENERATED VIA THE ERROR-PROPAGATION THEORY. THE RESULTS FROM THIS EFFORT WILL PROVIDE DATA PRODUCTS IMPORTANT NOT ONLY TO SUPPORT THE DECADAL CONTINUITY OF THE EDR BUT ALSO TO STUDY EARTH FROM SPACE TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND MEET SOCIETAL NEEDS .$465,458
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
BOSTON ENVIRONMENTAL AREA COASTAL OBSERVATION NETWORK (BEACON) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASS. BOSTON$462,399
· FY2009 · Department of Energy