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- NASA SELECTS PROJECTS FOR COMMERCIAL USE OF REMOTE SENSING
- DECEMBER 20, 1990
- RELEASE: 90-164
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- NASA today announced the selection of 12 research projects to develop new
- private sector applications of space-based and airborne remote sensing
- technologies.
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- Funding for the Earth Observations Commercialization Applications Program
- (EOCAP) projects represents a continuation of a program aimed at increasing
- broader use of NASA-developed technology for gathering and analyzing valuable
- information about Earth and ocean resources through remote satellite or
- aircraft observations.
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- The program, sponsored by NASA's Office of Commercial Programs (OCP), will fund
- over $2 million of research annually. Investigator teams are required to
- provide substantial co-funding of proposed research as a contribution to the
- project.
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- Projects funded under the program will identify and research new commercial
- products and services that might be developed from use of existing technology
- and explore ways of improving and expanding the uses of remote sensing by
- commercial ventures.
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- The first solicitation for EOCAP was issued in late l987. Of the more that 120
- proposals received and evaluated, 20 projects were selected and funded over a
- 3-year period with $12 million from OCP and the Office of Space Science and
- Applications.
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- The second solicitation for proposals was issued in June l990. A total of 50
- proposals were received and reviewed prior to today's selection announcement.
- Projects will be managed by OCP through the Science and Technology Laboratory
- at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
-
- The 12 projects selected for negotiation leading to 1-year funding contracts,
- with options to extend funding for an additional 2 years, will be procured in
- two phases expected to begin in March l99l, with the second phase as early as
- July l99l.
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- Phase I projects are:
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- o Hazardous Waste Detection: A Pilot Remote Sensing Assisted Environmental
- Audit, proposed by investigators affiliated with Earthscan, Inc., Austin,
- Texas.
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- o Improved Urban Infrastructure Mapping for Market Forecasting using Remote
- Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Technology, proposed by
- investigators affiliated with BellSouth Services, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.;
- University of South Carolina, Columbia; and NASA John C. Stennis Space Center,
- Miss.
-
- o Development and Marketing of Land Use and Cover Change Analysis System
- (LUCAS), proposed by investigators affiliated with Pacific Meridan Resources,
- Emeryville, Calif.; USDA Forest Service, Portland, Ore.; and Oregon Department
- of Land Conservation and Development, Salem.
-
- o Integrated Software System for Analyzing Remote Sensed Data, proposed by
- investigators affiliated with Statistical Sciences, Inc., Seattle; University
- of Washington, Seattle; and Hewlett-Packard, Denver.
-
- o Application of Remote Sensing Technology for Real Time Disaster Assessment,
- proposed by investigators affiliated with Terra-Mar Resource Information
- Services, Mountain View, Calif.; Teale Data Center, Sacramento, Calif.; NASA
- Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif.; Pacific Southwest Forest and Range
- Experiment Station, Forest Fire Laboratory, Riverside, Calif.; Hewlett Packard
- Co., Fort Collins, Colo.; Visual Information Technologies, Inc., Plano, Texas;
- and ESL, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif.
-
- o Use of Satellite Derived Estimates of Precipitation and Evapotransporation to
- Enhance Hydrologic Forecasting, proposed by investigators affiliated with The
- Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif.; C.F. Haines,
- Hydrologistics, Inc., Northport, Ala.; NASA Stennis Space Center; Department of
- Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National
- Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Camp Springs, Md.; and
- Alabama Power Co., Birmingham.
-
- o Demonstrate and Market Oil Seep Surveys, proposed by investigators affiliated
- with Earth Satellite Corp., Rockville, Md.; Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc.,
- San Ramon, Calif.; Marathon Oil Co., Houston; Arco Oil and Gas Co., Plano,
- Texas; Geosat Committee, Norman, Okla.; and Central Trading System, West Islip,
- N.Y.
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- Phase II Projects are:
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- o GeoStack Database for Geographic Information Systems, proposed by
- investigators affiliated with ST Systems Corp., Lanham, Md.; University of
- Florida, Gainesville; Stennis Space Center, Science and Technology Laboratory;
- Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc., San Ramon, Calif.; and Weyerhaeuser Co.,
- Tacoma, Wash.
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- o Pipeline Infrastructure Monitoring and Management, proposed by investigators
- affiliated with James W. Sewall Company, Old Town, Maine; Algonquin Gas
- Transmission Co., Boston, Mass.; NASA Stennis Space Center, Science and
- Technology Laboratory; Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. Houston; Texas; Eastern
- Gas Pipeline Co. and Trunkline Gas Co., Houston.
-
- o Marketing Remote Sensing Data for North Pacific Fisheries Development and
- Management, proposed by investigators affiliated with Natural Resources
- Consultants, Inc., Seattle; Western Resources Analysis, Wenatchee, Wash.;
- Pacific Remote Sensing Alliance, Bothell, Wash.; NASA Ames Research Center;
- Department of the Navy, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif.; University
- of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska; Alaska Factory Trawler Associations,
- Seattle; North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' Association, Seattle; University
- of Washington, Seattle; U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
- Atmospheric Administration; Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Law Enforcement
- Division, Seattle; Washington Sea Grant Program, Seattle; University of New
- Mexico, Technology Application Center, Albuquerque; and RSMAS/University of
- Miami, Fla.
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- o Satellite Remote Sensing for Agricultural Production Management, proposed by
- investigators affiliated with Cropix, Inc., Hermiston, Ore.; NASA Ames Research
- Center; Oregon State University, Corvallis; IRZ Consulting, Hermiston, Ore.;
- Eagle Ranch, Echo, Ore.; L & L Farms, Echo, Ore.
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- o Wetlands Information Services, proposed by investigators affiliated with
- Applied Analysis Incorporated, Billerica, Mass.; and Clemson University,
- Clemson, S.C.
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- Barbara Selby
- NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
- (Phone: 703/557-5609)
-
- Myron Webb
- Stennis Space Center, Miss.
- (Phone: 601/688-3341)
-