mapping_grayThe Environmental Mapping Team transforms geospatial data into valuable insights for decision-making. Our approach is highly collaborative and focused on addressing client needs. We work closely with national stakeholders, international organizations, environmental NGOs, and ESG focused corporations to drive impactful solutions addressing complex environmental challenges.

Read more below to learn about the areas where we are working to co-develop impactful solutions

Carbon Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification

Using innovative technology and cloud computing, our environmental mapping team backstops local science with global networks to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and removals, providing clear, comprehensible data to help reduce uncertainty surrounding emission estimates and understand forest change area.

AI Powered Sustainability

With artificial intelligence technology, we can decipher complex environmental systems and reduce environmental impacts. We leverage Vertex AI, Google Earth Engine, and other Google Cloud platform tools to emerge on the forefront of AI use in geospatial workflows for analyzing and predicting environmental factors and developing decision support tools to help progress toward sustainability.

Environmental Monitoring

To analyze the effectiveness of existing environmental initiatives and identify the need for new ones, we must understand the changes occurring to environmental features such as forest cover and wildlife composition. Our environmental mapping team provides baseline information about natural conditions that can be translated into effective policies and practices, and implements systems for ongoing monitoring of the efficacy of sustainable management actions.

Near Real-time Forest Disturbance Detection

Swift responses to forest disturbances including deforestation, wildfires, and illegal mining are crucial in the effort to protect our planet’s forests. By monitoring forests through remote sensing technology and data analysis, SIG’s environmental mapping team ensures that stakeholders are kept aware of forest activities and have the crucial information they need to take action.

Partners

SIG’s environmental mapping team partners with leading environmental organizations, institutions, and initiatives across the world to develop innovative solutions to environmental issues and secure desired results. Our environmental mapping team’s web of collaborators is as diverse as our client’s needs: from mapping crops with Google Earth Engine, to co-creating geospatial data with SERVIR Amazonia, to building capacity for clients worldwide.

Recent Projects – Environmental Mapping

Collect Earth Online (CEO) Resources

Collect Earth Online (CEO) has many resources if you want to learn how to use the tool, please see these…
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Collective mapathon confirms TerraBio’s remote sensing approach

This post originally appeared on the website of the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity (PCAB), a program of…
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Vietnam Forests and Deltas Program

Mapping the Best Sites for Forest Restoration Across the Globe

The destruction of forests hurts people and the planet, while restoring these landscapes offers profound benefits—storing carbon, improving biodiversity, purifying…
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Land Cover & Wildlife Habitat Mapping of Western Wisconsin

The purpose of this project was to create a high-resolution land cover classification and conduct habitat gap analyses for monarch…
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Our Team – Environmental Mapping

karis Tenneson

Karis Tenneson, PhD

Service Area Lead

Karen Dyson

Karen Dyson, PhD

Senior Scientist, Conservation Biology

Brian Zutta

Brian Zutta

Science & Data; SERVIR Amazonia

Ate Poortinga

Ate Poortinga

Senior Scientist; SERVIR Southeast Asia

Andrea McMahon

Andrea McMahon

Research Scientist

Crystal Wespestad

Crystal Wespestad

Geospatial Data Scientist and Project Manager

Enikoe Bihari

Enikoe Bihari

Data Scientist, Environmental Mapping

Tianchi Liu

Tianchi Liu

Data Scientist

Kyle Woodward

Kyle Woodward

Geospatial Data Scientist

Vanessa Machuca

Vanessa Machuca

Geospatial Data Scientist

Andrea Nicolau

Andréa Puzzi Nicolau

Geospatial Data Scientist

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José Ochoa-Brito, PhD.

Senior Scientist

Elijah Dalton

Elijah Dalton

Geospatial Data Scientist

Luis Lizcano-Sandoval

Luis Lizcano-Sandoval

Research Scientist

Iara Jaques

Iara Jaques

Environmental Consultant, Environmental Mapping

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Ian McCullough

Senior Scientist

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