Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Gulf Coast CESU

Post Date

March 20th 2014

Application Due Date

March 31st 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00051

CFDA Number(s)

15.817

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUкs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $50000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey is offering funding opportunity to conduct research to advance techniques to extract critical information about the Earthкs surface from high-resolution topographic data to better understand river channel networks and near-channel environments. Specific tasks are to (i) assess the state-of the-art of feature extraction algorithms by testing them on landscapes of different characteristics (Eel River, Minnesota River, Death Valley); (ii) develop guidelines directed to lidar practitioners for filtering and feature extraction as a function of dominant landscape processes; (iii) improve scalability and usability of feature extraction tools to allow their distribution as more user-friendly, national-scale, production-grade tools.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  Faith Graves, 703-648-7356
  fgraves@usgs.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov/