At a glance
Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Great Lakes Northern Forrest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit is a federal competitive grant from Geological Survey for the science & technology sector. Funding is $1–$135K. Eligible applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification). This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program. CESU's are par. The application deadline is December 2, 2026. Apply via the official listing at www.grants.gov.
- Amount
- $1–$135K
- Deadline
- Dec 2, 2026
- Type
- Competitive
- Status
- Closing soon
About this program
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in improving accuracy assessment and area estimation for use in annual remote-sensing based land-cover monitoring. The Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is a remotely sensed data management, systems development, and science center for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Land Imaging Program. The USGS EROS has long been at the forefront of land cover research at local to global geographies. The USGS is modernizing its land cover monitoring capabilities and is enabling artificial intelligence, machine learning, and modeling for the detection of land change and the characterization of land cover at any time in the Landsat satellite record. The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research centered on improvements in land cover research by focusing on investigating and implementing state-of-the-art sampling and statistical strategies for accuracy assessment and area estimation, and the impacts of reference data uncertainties. This will be critical for characterizing the validity of USGS land cover change products such as the Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) which is used by other federal agencies, agencies of State, tribal, and local governments, institutes of higher education, and the private sector.
Who can apply
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification). This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program. CESU's are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Lakes Northern Forrest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.
How to apply
Apply through Grants.gov using funding opportunity number G27AS00040. Register your organization (SAM.gov + Grants.gov) before the deadline, then submit the application package listed in the official notice.
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