Professor David Long recieved a NASA Group Achievement Award "for outstanding accomplishments in the Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment (CASIE), conducted in Svalbard, Norway, July 2009". He and his students operated a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system aboard the CASIE unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to collect radar images of sea ice.
The NASA/Ames Laboroatory also presented the CASIE Project Team with a "Ames Honor Award" for excellence.