Remote sensing urban heat-island phenomenon in four Texas cities: San Antonio, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and El Paso

A project proposal is the first step to us to get funding from anywhere. You need to write a proposal to your advisor, your university, your company, your city, state, governmental agencies (USGS, USDA, NSF, NASA, NOAA, DoEd, DOE, ....) for any funding opportunity. A proposal for a small amount of fund is usually 5 pages; for a standard and multi-year proposal to governmental agencies, it is usually 15 pages. The format for a proposal might change from agency to agency, from announcement to announcement, or from program to program, but several basic elements should be included: (1) a introduction to state the current problems and why you want to propose this project; (2) objectives and significant of the project and hypotheses or questions you want to answer; (3) what kind of data, method and modeling approach you will use to conduct the project, and usually you need to show some preliminary or previous results; (4) expected results after you finished the project; and (5) relevant to the research announcement. See an example proposal I just submitted to UTSA for a small amount of fund, which is five pages and includes all the elements that I listed above.