Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'A comprehensive quantitative model of the ionosphere applied against ePOP/CASSIOPE and Swarm observations'. The project team will develop a computer-based model to explore the...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'What role do Alfven waves play in energy transfer in the dynamical magnetosphere-ionosphere system?'. The project team will endeavour to determine the role of magnetic waves i...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'Can EMIC waves solve the mystery of extremely fast ultra-relativistic electron loss in the outer Van Allen radiation belt?'. The Van Allen radiation belts are regions of radia...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2025-2026
Canada
This project aims to leverage Earth observations from satellites, drones, and ground-based technologies (e.g., mobile phones) to improve the ability to quantify, map, and monitor biodiversity in the c...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'Polar scintillation model for GNSS'. Satellite navigation system (such as GPS) are vulnerable to space weather in polar regions due to disturbances in the Earth's upper atmosp...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
This project will extend the Environment Canada Carbon Assimilation System (EC-CAS) to assimilate CO observations from the Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument. Th...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
This project will extend the Environment Canada Carbon Assimilation System (EC-CAS) to assimilate CO observations from the Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument. Th...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project is entitled 'Trans-ionospheric propagation investigations of high frequency radio waves in the terrestrial ionosphere by the ePOP satellite mission'. The project team will improve our unde...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2025-2026
Canada
This project will use JWST/NIRCam to perform the deepest survey for Kuiper Belt Objects ever. This will result in a Kuiper Belt size distribution down to ~1 km in size, the size of impactor responsibl...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2017-2018
Canada
The ESSENCE mission will test a Canadian-developed wide-angle camera to observe snow and ice coverage in Northern Canada. The information collected through its images could help map the thawing of Arc...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""Modes of Pollution Transport from North America to Nova Scotia and Beyond"". This project aims to quantify the long-term variability of different pollution sources (local, region...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project title is: ""Advanced multi-instrument record of stratospheric aerosol and the climate impact""
Using measurements from Canadian satellite instruments, the objective of this project is to...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""MOPITT Data Enhancements through Improved Cloud Clearing"". Canada's MOPITT instrument measures global CO levels every three days. It has been in orbit since 1999 and continues t...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""Climatological, model evaluation and validation studies using data from Canadian satellite and ground-based measurements"". Using data from three Canadian satellites, this resear...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2011-2012
Canada
Estimation of soil moisture from L-band passive and active microwave data over Canadian agricultural and forested areas
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""Understanding the role of deep convection in determining the humidity structure in the upper-troposphere and lower-stratosphere (UTLS) and improving model simulation of the proce...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2020-2021
Canada
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) aims at creating shared cryptographic keys by exploiting the fundamental laws of quantum physics. Terrestrial QKD networks suffer from a limitation related to the maxima...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""Investigation of snowfall and related climate processes from a space-based instrument suite"".
Seasonal snowfall is important to Canada's climate and water balance. Recent and r...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""Analysis of remotely sensed, aerosol-cloud interaction over the Arctic"". This project will analyze the aerosol-cloud interactions over the Arctic when aerosols like dust and smo...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2016-2017
Canada
The project name is ""CO in the Canadian boreal forest and urban centres"". CO is an atmospheric gas that impacts urban air quality and the global carbon cycle. This project will combine atmospheric o...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2011-2012
Canada
The Awareness and Learning component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contributions Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides finan...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2020-2021
Canada
Rock chemistries measured on Mars essentially represent their integrated histories and include contributions from
their igneous starting materials and possibly include sedimentary processes or second...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2023-2024
Canada
This project addresses the overarching goal of Improving Space Weather Radiation Belt and Ring Current Loss Models. In particular, the project will focus on utilizing GO Canada data, and additional su...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2023-2024
Canada
Through its provision of key instrumentation to the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite mission, now operating at the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere for nearly a decade, Canada has extensive...
Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
EF 2023-2024
Canada
Overshooting deep convection is an extreme weather condition that is affected by but also feeds back to climate change. Its complex nature makes it difficult to represent it in global climate models a...