Funding
We are grateful to the generous grant support from multiple US and UK federal agencies as well as private companies that have funded the professional software development of GCD. Without their support this free software would not exist.
GCD 7 Development
Funding for the latest phase of Geomorphic Change Detection development was provided by:
- NERC - UK Natural Environment Research Council - Award NE/P016804/1
- USGS GCMRC
GeoTERM NERC Project
Through the GeoTERM project with NERC, our international partners have been extremely generous with their time, sharing their expertise, data, articulating their needs and in-kind funding and support:
Agencies and Research Institutes
- Scottish Environmental Protection Agency - Alasdair Matheson & Helen Reid
- NIWA of New Zealand - Jo Hoyle
- James Hutton Institute of Scotland - Stephen Addy
New Zealand Regional Councils
Consulting Firms
- Land River Sea Consulting of New Zealand - Matthew Gardner
- North Arrow Research of Canada - Matt Reimer & Philip Bailey
Universities
GCD 6 Development
GCD 6 was primarily supported by The National Science Foundation (Geoinformatics: Award #1226127 - ‘Making Point Clouds Useful for Earth Science’), Idaho Power Company and Bonneville Power Administration via Eco Logical Research.
GCD 5, 4 and 3 Software Development
Earlier GCD development support was provided by:
- USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring & Research Center
- US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District
- Utah State University ICRRR (Intermountain Center for River Rehabilitation and Restoration)
