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RSI Budget (estimated totals)

RSI's funding level is a function of research expenditures on RSI-affiliated grants. The following budget is therefore approximate, as budget totals will vary from year to year. RSI expenditures are mainly aimed at enhancing and expanding research and graduate activity -- especially interdisciplinary activity -- and undergraduate research and education related to remote sensing. (For additional information on RSI's goals and scope, see the RSI Charter (to be linked here in the near future).)

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Category Annual cost (k$)
Administration costs  
RSI director support 10.0
RSI 1/5- to 1/4-time staff 7.0
Photocopying and miscellaneous 0.5
Subtotal: 17.5 (24%)
Computing Support  
(software available to all RSI members, connect fees for RSI computing stations, available to all RSI members, hardware upgrades, system administration, etc.) 17.0
Subtotal: 17.0 (24%)
Remote Sensing seminar series (for research development by sharing cost for collaborating visitors; MTU publicity; support for Remote Sensing minor) 5.0
Subtotal: 5.0 (7%)
Direct research and graduate support  
Proposal matching funds (e.g., equipment, field work/ship time, equipment maintenance or upgrades) 5.5
Graduate assistantships (supplements, cost-splitting with grant support, proposal cost-share) 9.0
Graduate travel awards (for presentation of research on RSI-affiliated or potentially RSI-affiliated projects) 2.0
Research faculty/Postdoctoral associate support (research staff grant-bridging funding, short-term new research faculty funding, support of RSI-affiliated graduate program courses) 11.0
Research development grants (Funds to aid the development of new RSI-affiliated research) 5.0
Subtotal: 32.5 (45%) (Note: The subtotal for this cateogory will be increased as RSI funding increases.)
Total 72.0