GeoResources Institute Mississippi State University Annual Report 2002-2003 Description of Institute: Until recently, Mississippi State University had several centers and institutes conducting and coordinating research and educational activities in geospatial technologies and natural resource management (agriculture, forestry, and water resources). However, MSU determined that closer coordination of the activities between these units would provide tremendous benefits through: • Synergy of activities between subject areas (e.g. computation, agriculture, water resources) • Development and implementation of common goals • Synergy of management • Avoidance of duplication of effort • Highly coordinated approach to research and educational project development • Service as the primary point-of-contact in the geospatial and water resource management • More effective leveraging of resources and activities into extramural funding Therefore, the GeoResources Institute was created at MSU in July 2002. Units forming the Institute included: • Remote Sensing Technologies Center • Water Resources Research Institute • Computational Geospatial Technologies Center • Visualization Analysis and Imaging Laboratory (the latter two formerly a part of the Engineering Research Center) The mission of the Institute is to develop tools that enable a better understanding of natural resources systems and their response to natural and human-induced changes, thus improving their conservation, productivity, and protection. Institute objectives include: • Increase the fundamental understanding of Earth’s natural resources systems • Develop natural resources management capabilities (Decision Support Systems) that capitalize on this knowledge: o Protect and enhance land and water resources through applications of science-based knowledge o Enhance the productivity and profitability of agricultural and forestry systems through science and advanced technologies o Optimize land-use management practices by converging technologies and capabilities • Maximize information that can be derived and utilized from remote sensing and other geospatial technologies for socio-economic benefits • Develop an educated public Proposals Submitted: (Federal) NAVO - Stennis Space Center. "NIDAS Maintenance and Upgrades." Requested at $70,000. C. Abbott. NAVO - Stennis Space Center. "NIDAS Maintenance and Upgrades." Requested at $30,000. C. Abbott. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Technical and Economic Comparison of Orthoimgery Produced from Medium and Large Format Photogrammetry." Requested at $98,192. V. Anantharaj. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "The Integration of Digital Imaging Systems to Time- sensitive Precision Pest Management (Denied)." Requested at $258,822. J. Arvik, J. Rodgers and D. Reynolds. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Office. "A Master Development Plan for a Recreational Impundment on the Starkville National Forest in Smith County, MS." Requested $9,449. J. Ballweber. Environmental Protection Agency. "Southeast Regional Small Public Water Systems Technical Assistance Center (SE-TAC)." Requested at $447,074. J. Ballweber. U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division. "Mississippi Aquatic GAP Pilot Project." Requested at $93,900. J. Ballweber. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, Rural Business Opportunity Grant. "A Master Development Plan for a Recreational Impoundment on the Bienville National Forest in Smith County, Mississippi." Requested at $50,000. J. Ballweber. Submitted by Mississippi Governor Musgrove. "Basin Management to Measurably and Significantly Reduce Pathogen Contamination in Mississippi’s Upper Pearl River and Ross Barnett Reservoir." Requested at $1,209,000. J. Ballweber. NAVY Stennis. "MRC; Prototype Regional Forecast Hub FY03 - N62306-01-D-B001; MRC." Requested at $1,150,000. J. Corbin. U.S. Geological Survey. "Hydrologic Controls on Wetland Tree Growth: Determining the Origin, Residence Time and Water Quality of Groundwater in the Root Zone." Requested at $14,445. G. Davidson. Office of Naval Research. "Augmenting Cognition: Optimizing Strategic Visual Processing." Requested at $446,047. S. Doane. NCAR/National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Applications of TRMM and Other Satellite Data to Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Forecasting." Requested at $150,000. P. Fitzpatrick. National Aeronautics and Space Administration/NRA. "NRA 03-OES-02; Application of Four Dimensional Variational Analysis to Examine Intensity Variations of Hurricane Lili." Requested at $482,723. P. Fitzpatrick. National Science Foundation. "Video Coding Using Multihypothesis Motion Compensation in the Redundant Wavelet Domain." Requested at $329,145. J. Fowler. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Commercial Viability Determination for Airborne Sensing of Southern Pine Beetle Damage" (Denied). Requested at $79,700. D. Grebner and I. Munn. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "A Portable Microchip Device for In Situ Analysis of Groundwater for Diuron" (Denied). Requested at $22,000. C. Henry. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "MSCI Campus Coordinator." Requested at $30,000. C. Hill and S. Samson. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. " MSCI Fellows Program" (6 of 7 applications approved @ $22,000 each). Requested at $132,000. C. Hill. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Commercialization of Remote Sensing Technology to Mainstream Cotton Growers in Mississippi" (Pending). Requested at $322,000. C. Hill. U.S. Department of Energy Solicitation (Joint proposal with the MSU College of Forest Resources). "Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Carbon Sequestration Initiative." Requested at $ D. Jones. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Commercial Aerial Hyperspectral and Other Advanced Technologies Acquisitions (2002), Three Missions." Requested at $395,200. R. King. U.S. Geological Survey. "Improved Estimation of Nutrient and Pesticide Runoff Losses from Golf Courses and Residential Lawns in the South Atlantic-Gulf Region." Requested at $15, 000. J. Massey. Office of Naval Research. "Representation of Ocean Physics Using Higher-Order Numerical Methods." Requested at $192,006. A. Mehra. Oregon State University - Nat'l Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. "A Biophysical Model of Hypoxia in the Mississippi Bight: Developing Predictive Model." Requested $158,305. A. Mehra. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters. "Sensitivity of the Biogeochemical and Physical North Atlantic System to Changes of Arctic Ocean Ice Cover and Salinity." Requested at $163,081. A. Mehra. Mississippi State University/Department of Defense. "Clin 4: ET001 En Vis and En VisU- Distributed High Performance Bachmode Visualization." Requested at $36,880. R. Moorhead. Jackson State University/ ERDC/ITL. "Cluster-based GeoSpatial Visualization, Strategic Area B: Architectures, Infrastructure and Methodologies for Advanced Computation." Requested at $200,000. R. Moorhead. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Earth System Science Research: Providing Data Products, Education and Technology in Information and Knowledge Manage." Requested at $4,793,025. C. O'Hara. Small Business Administration/ Dept of Commerce. "Census Data Tiger-File Maintenance." Requested at $1,987,000. C. O'Hara. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Remote Sensing and GIS Application for Improved Catfish Pond Management" (Pending). Requested at $100,680. E. Robinson and D. Wise. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Precision Agriculture: Geospatial Extension Specialist project." Requested at $66,976. S. Samson. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Grant Program. "Support for Geospatial Extension Specialist." Requested at $150,000. S. Samson and C. Hill. University of Mississippi/U.S. Department of Education. "Mississippi CO2 Resource Assessment." Requested at $129,536. D. Schmitz. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. "MSU/Tombigbee Stream and Spring Baseline Monitoring." Requested at $20,645. D. Schmitz. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "The Use of Remote Sensing and Other Spatial Data to Manage Variability in Sweetpotato Development Yield, and Quality" (Pending). Requested at $355,392. M. Shankle. U.S. Department of Agriculture (CSREES). "MAFES – Joint NASA/USDA Workshop on Agricultural Decision Support Systems." Requested at $25,000. D. Shaw. U.S. Geological Survey . " Mississippi State Water Research Institute Program." Requested at $21,449. D. Shaw. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "An Exploration of Methodologies to identify and Validate Correlations Between Remotely Sensed Land Use/Land Cover and Agricultural Activity Data and Probably Water Quality Impairment by Chemical Specific Pesticides." Requested at $124,280. D. Shaw and J. Ballweber. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Mississippi Crop Imaging." Requested at $475,000. D. Shaw and R. King. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Interagency Personnel Agreement for Dr. Jon Arvik." Requested at $350,000. D. Shaw. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. " Interagency Personnel Agreement for Dr. Roger King." Requested at $240,000. D. Shaw. University of Mississippi/MS Space Commerce Initiative. "Economic Development Activities: Geospatial Extension Specialist