Funding-NASA -- ROSES
2014: Carbon Monitoring System: Continuing Prototype Product Development,
Research, and Scoping; June 17, 2014
Agency
NASA Headquarters
Description
This
ROSES-2014 NRA (NNH14ZDA001N) solicits basic and applied research in support of
NASA?s Science Mission Directorate (SMD).
A.7
Carbon Monitoring System: Continuing Prototype Product Development, Research,
and Scoping
NASA
is interested in receiving proposals for the following types of prototyping,
research, and scoping activities for carbon monitoring:
• Studies using
commercial off-the-shelf technologies to produce and evaluate prototype
monitoring, reporting, and verification system approaches and/or calibration
and validation data sets for future NASA missions, including, but not limited
to, monitoring reporting and verification work in support of REDD, REDD+, or SilvaCarbon projects;
• Studies that
address research needs to advance remote sensing-based approaches to
monitoring, reporting, and verification (e.g., quantification of forest degradation;
independent assessment of the accuracy of airborne remote sensing observations
of biomass and carbon stocks; use of airborne flux observations and satellite
remote sensing, as alternative methods for quantifying net carbon
emissions/storage).
• Studies that
advance upon, extend, and/or improve the existing CMS products for biomass and
flux resulting from NASA’s first phases of CMS pilot studies; such studies may
include, for example, product improvements, refined characterization and
quantification of errors and uncertainties, and/or preparation and delivery of
a mature product for long-term archive at an established NASA DAAC or
equivalent data center.
Data
from airborne or spaceborne remote sensing must be an
essential element in all proposed carbon monitoring investigations. In light of
2014 Congressional guidance noting that current orbital and suborbital
platforms are insufficient to meet all monitoring, reporting, and verification
(MRV) objectives, the use of commercial off-the-shelf technologies is strongly
encouraged. All sources of remotely sensed data to be used must be well
justified in terms of their importance and appropriateness for the work to be
conducted, as well as their overall utility and priority for monitoring carbon
for science, management, and policy.
Details
of the solicited programs are given in the Appendices of this ROSES-2014 NRA.
Names, due dates, and links for the individual calls are given in Tables 2 and
3 of this ROSES-2014 NRA. Table 2, organized by due date, can be found at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2014table2
and Table 3, organized by subject area can be found at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2014table3.
Interested proposers should monitor http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
or subscribe to the electronic notification system there for additional new
programs or amendments to this ROSES NRA through February 2015, at which time
release of a subsequent ROSES NRA is planned. A web archive (and RSS feed) for
amendments, clarifications, and corrections to this ROSES-2014 NRA will be
available
at:http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2014
Further information about specific program elements may be obtained from the
individual Program Officers listed in the Summary of Key Information for each
program element in the Appendices of this ROSES NRA and at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list/.
Announcement
Number:
NNH14ZDA001N-CMS
Closing
Date:
Jun 17, 2014
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=254405
Contact
Information
Questions
concerning general ROSES NRA policies and procedures may be directed to Max
Bernstein, Lead for Research, Science Mission Directorate, at sara@nasa.gov.