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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Lakes Northern Forest CESU" (Funding Opportunity Number G12AS20038), was offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), specifically through the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. It is a discretionary science and technology research funding opportunity, issued as a cooperative agreement, which generally means the USGS expects to have substantial involvement in the work (for example, collaborating on methods, providing technical direction, or coordinating data and review). The focus of the work is on improving the science and strategies behind accuracy assessment and validation for land cover change products, including major datasets such as the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and global 30-meter land cover products. In practical terms, the funded research is meant to strengthen how agencies and researchers evaluate whether mapped land cover and land cover change results are correct, consistent, and defensible for decision-making.

The technical theme is accuracy assessment analysis for land cover change, which typically involves designing and testing approaches for validating remote-sensing-derived land cover maps. This can include developing statistically sound sampling designs, establishing reference data protocols (such as interpretation of high-resolution imagery or use of field observations), creating methods to quantify uncertainty, and improving the reporting of map accuracy for both land cover "status" (what is on the ground at a given time) and land cover "change" (how it shifts between time periods). Because the opportunity explicitly references validation of change products, it suggests an interest in methods that can reliably detect and confirm transitions (for example, forest to agriculture, wetland loss, urban expansion) while handling common problems such as classification error propagation across time, inconsistent labeling, spatial misregistration between datasets, and the tendency for rare change classes to be under-sampled or mischaracterized.

The opportunity anticipated a single award with an estimated total funding amount of $38,000, and it did not require cost sharing or matching funds. The award ceiling and floor were listed as $0, which is a pattern sometimes seen in older postings where the agency does not specify formal caps in the system even though an estimated total amount is provided. The CFDA number associated with the funding is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). Key dates show it was posted May 16, 2012, with an original and final closing date of May 30, 2012, and it was archived August 16, 2012, indicating it was a short application window and is no longer open.

Eligibility was restricted because the announcement was issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) framework. CESUs are formal partnership networks that support applied research, technical assistance, and education tied to natural and cultural resource management priorities. Under this posting, eligible applicants needed to be a participating partner within the relevant CESU program as specified in the notice (the text references CESU partnership eligibility, and applicants were directed to check the "Additional Information on Eligibility" portion of the full announcement for the exact clarification). In other words, it was not an open competition for all institutions; it was intended for organizations already in the CESU partnership network connected to the specified unit.

For applicants seeking more detail at the time, the announcement pointed to Grants.gov for the full posting, and it provided a USGS contact for access issues: Faith Graves (703-648-7356, fgraves@usgs.gov). Overall, the opportunity was a small, targeted research award aimed at advancing the rigor and credibility of land cover and land cover change validation methods, supporting the broader reliability of widely used national and global land cover products produced or used by USGS and partner agencies.

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