NGA University Research Initiatives

Take a look at this article in Defense Systems about NGA grants.

The DARPA of geospatial

• By Patrick Marshall
• September 16, 2008

When you think of NURI, think of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...but only for geospatial projects.

NURI stands for NGA University Research Initiatives. NGA, of course, is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a combat support agency at the Defense Department.

The NURI project has been operating since 1997 and has already awarded 103 grants to researchers at more than 60 universities to investigate topics related to geospatial intelligence. Each grant is for three years and generally amounts to $150,000 per year.

This year’s awards (GCN.com, Quickfind 1201) range from one for a research project on “Spaceborne Magnetic Gradiometry after Swarm: Novel Approaches to Mapping the Earth’s Magnetic Field Employing Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Rotation Sensors” to a project titled “Purpose- Aware Dynamic Graph Models for Representing and Reasoning about Networks.”

http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2008/09/The-DARPA-of-geospatial.aspx