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Publication Date - 12/3/1999

69. NOAA - Ocean Remote Sensing

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), announces the availability of Federal assistance for fiscal year 2000 (FY 2000) in the Ocean Remote Sensing Program area.

The Ocean Remote Sensing Program seeks to expand the use of and improve access to operational satellite oceanographic data by state, Federal, regional governmental and non-profit entity users. The program is seeking proposals in each of the following research areas listed in approximate priority order:

(1) The application of satellite oceanographic data and information in coastal and oceanic marine (living and non-living) resources management;
(2) The application of satellite oceanographic data to gain improved insight on regional oceanographic factors affecting important fisheries and critical ecosystems (e.g., essential fish habitat, early life recruitment and survival, stock assessment, protected species, important socio-economic interactions, and coral reefs);
(3) Innovative techniques to simplify and improve access to satellite oceanographic data by public users (e.g., access by educators, by users employing geographic information systems (GIS) technologies, and by users employing Internet-based data access and data distribution technologies);
(4) Research to increase the accuracy, precision and quantitative use of satellite oceanographic data in coastal and ocean surface research investigations (e.g., sea surface temperature, ocean color, ocean surface winds, sea level and surface height, and sea surface roughness derived from spaceborne synthetic aperture radar);
(5) Research supporting the development of future ocean sensing capable U.S. satellite systems (e.g., the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)); and
(6) Improved coastal and oceanic climatologies using satellite oceanographic data.

Funding for this program area in FY 2000 will be contingent upon the availability of funds but is anticipated to be in the range of $100,000 to $500,000. Individual awards are expected to range from a minimum of $50,000 to $150,000 on an annual basis.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is JANUARY 17, 2000.