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Spatial Informatics Group - SIG

Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) is a scientific think tank and boundary organization.
We convert geospatial data into impactful products and services, empowering decision-makers to effect positive change on a global scale. Supported by our four pillars—international talent, strategic partnerships, vertical integration, and commitment to open science—our organizational structure promotes agile collaboration among research scientists in specialized working groups.

With over 25 years in the environmental sector, we identify and address gaps in these groups through partnerships with leading institutions. Unlike traditional think-tanks, we engage upstream with universities for cutting-edge research and move downstream to produce and share products globally, often at no cost, reinforcing our dedication to knowledge dissemination and positive global impact.

Trusted

By over 85 governmental agencies, 75 leading universities and NGOs, and 120 private sector businesses around the world

TRUSTED CAL FIRE The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Trusted by NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
trusted by The United States Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA
Trusted by Google
Trusted by The Food and Agriculture Organization
Trusted By The Nature Conservancy
Trusted By USA National Park Service
Trusted by United States Agency for International Development
Trusted by World Wildlife Fund
Trusted by The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
SIG is trusted by SilvaCarbon
SIG is trusted by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SIG is trusted by The California Energy Commission
SIG is trusted by Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
3Degrees
AECOM
African Parks
American Forest Foundation
American Carbon Registry
ANJ
ASCENT
AYRES logo
BayGeo
Belvedere Properties
Berkeley Forests
Better Place Forests
biomass energy resource center BERC
Bluesource is Now Anew
Blue Forest
Booz Allen Hamilton
British Petroleum
Bluesource Anew
Bridgestone
Cal Poly Humboldt
California Department of Water Resources
California Trout
Caltrans: California Department of Transportation
California Air Resources Board
CBT is a premier, woman-owned Domain Expert Integrator
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network
The Coalition for Rainforest Nations
Ch2m engineering company
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
Conservation International
The Climate & Wildfire Institute (CWI)
Climate Action Reserve
Coalition for the Upper South Platte
The D. E. Shaw group
The Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians is a Northern California Indian Tribe
Eagle Rock Analytics
ECORP, An environmental consulting firm
E.C.O. stands for a strong, experienced and interdisciplinary team.
El Dorado County Resource Conservation District
Element Markets
Elm consulting energy
Enviva global energy company
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPRI Electric Power Research Institute
European Space Agency
European Commission
Feather River Resource Conservation District
Fruit growers supply
Flathead Ridge Ranch
Forest County Potawatomi (FCP)
Alpine County California
The Feather River Land Trust
First Street Foundation
F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
Global Environment Centre
The Great Basin Institute
Green Diamond
Green Economics
Hancock timber resource group
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources seal
Holland M Ware Charitable Foundation
ICF International
ICRISAT
IHE DELFT
The Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF)
Iteris
John Wood
Kamehameha Schools
koda energy
LEAF lowering emissions in Asia forest
liberty utilities
Lawrence Livermore
Lockheed Martin
Council of Western States Forest
EMCOR
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
Universidad del Rosario
Manomet
Center for Conservations Sciences
Marin municipal water district
Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority
MASS Audubon Massachusetts
METI ministry of economy trade and industry of Japan
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Minnesota department-of natural resources
Mitsui Bussan
Mohairson Pawan Khatulistiwa
MTS
The National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (NAFRI - Lao PDR)
Native Energy
NCEAS
The New England Forestry Foundation
National Wildlife Federation
National Forest foundation
New Forest
Northeast Wilderness Trust
NHC
New Mexico Forest-and Watershed Restoration Institute
Northern Arizona Athletics
Northern Forest Center
Northest forestlands
Nova Sphere
NRDC
NSRC
Oregon State
Oystra conservation
Panorama Environmental
Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Plumas Corp
Rainforest Alliance
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development - RCMRD
Reax Engineering
Native Energy
Placer county air pollution control district
Pulama Lanai
RECOFTC
Renew West
Rivulis
Saint Croix County
sasaki
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Save the redwoods
California Public Utilities Commission
The US Fish & Wildlife Service
Shell company
SELC
Servir
Stanford Cardinal
The Society of Research Administrators International (SRA-International)
Sierra Pacific Industries
Sustainable Northwest
SNV
SMUD
Sierra Business Council
Sierra Institute
Stantec
The Sacramento Tree Foundation
stillwater Sciences
South Tahoe
The State University of New York
Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP)
The World Bank
SWCA Environmental Consultants
Tahoe Prosperity Center
Tall Timbers
The Gold Standard
University of Vermont
Trimble
Tropenbos International
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
TSS Consultants
Tulalip Tribes
United Nations Development Program
University of Copenhagen
University of California
Berkeley University
University of California San Diego
University of Kentucky
University of New Hampshire
The United Nations Office for Project Services
URS Corporation
US Forest Capital
USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
Vermont Land Trust
Vergennes partnership
vhb vanasse hangen brustlin inc
Woolpert Architecture Engineering
White Mountain Apache
Winrock International
whitebark institute
World resources institute

Science Groups

SIG Environmental Mapping Group

Environmental Mapping

The Environmental Mapping Team is integral to our suite of services. Specializing in high-resolution GIS maps, out team  covers diverse features such as trees, streams, wetlands, buildings, and more.

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Forest and Agriculture Management group

Forest and Agriculture Management

The Forest and Agriculture group aims to apply forest management strategies through collaboration with clients, leveraging expertise in forestry, spatial analytics, wildlife biology, and natural resource economics.
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SIG Ecosystems Services Group

Ecosystem Services

Our Ecosystems Services group actively guides clients in implementing ecosystem service-based decision-making, by interpreting and quantifying nature’s contributions to the environment.
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SIG Forest Carbon Offsets group

Forest Carbon Offsets

Our Carbon Offsets group, prioritizes science-driven solutions for forest management. Our team strategically selects projects in the carbon offset market, addressing real impacts on climate change.
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Natural hazards Group

Natural Hazards Risk Assessment

For over two decades, our Natural Hazards Group has led wildfire science and planning. Our partnerships with agencies in California and worldwide have challenged us to develop cutting-edge fire-behavior modeling tools.
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Technology

Built for Science
Environmental Software

SIG is a pioneer in delivering innovative software-based solutions.

Our Development team ideates, builds, and develops software accessed by millions of users around the world.

Technology

Built for Science
Environmental Software

SIG is a pioneer in delivering innovative software-based solutions.

Our Development team ideates, builds, and develops software accessed by millions of users around the world.

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Solutions

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Human potential

Ecosystem Services
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Forest & Agriculture Management
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Unmanned aircraft
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Natural Hazards
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Climate Change
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Carbon Offsets
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Environmental Software
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Carbon Offsets
Environmental Software
Ecosystem Services
Environmental Mapping
Forest & Agriculture Management
Unmanned aircraft
Natural Hazards
Climate Change

OUR
IMPACT

67 Countries

+500 Global Projects

125+ Environmental Projects

130+ Natural Hazards

55+ Forest and Agriculture Projects

25+ Forest Carbon Projects

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Countries SIG works

OUR
IMPACT

67 Countries

+500 Global Projects

125+ Environmental Projects

130+ Natural Hazards

55+ Forest and Agriculture Projects

25+ Forest Carbon Projects

SIG-countries

Countries SIG works

Clients & Partners

Testimonials

8 Geo For Good Impact Awards
SIG winner of 8 Geo For Good Impact Awards
“SIG's support was instrumental in shaping the TerraBio framework, contributing to the development of remote sensing algorithms and biodiversity components. The tool is now efficiently estimating environmental impacts, generating high-resolution land cover maps, and analyzing species-presence data. SIG's involvement also extends to groundbreaking work with eDNA, facilitating the collection of soil samples for DNA analysis to monitor species composition and richness.”
Marcos Bauch Project Management Specialist, USAID Brazil, South America Regional Coordinator
“SIG has the balanced combination of scientific knowledge, technology and collaborative thinking to innovate for operational practitioners in the climate, wildfire, and forest health spaces. I turn to the SIG team when I need to push the boundaries of understanding of scientific and societal strategies in wildland fire innovations.”
Dr. Ilkay Altintas Founding Director, WIFIRE Lab at UC San Diego
“Fire Factor’s success is directly attributable to the innovative wildfire science and data analytics that SIG and its Pyregence partners brought to the project. Using Google Earth Engine allowed them to innovate and scale nationwide quickly to meet our common goal of communicating climate-driven wildfire risk in a highly personal way."
Ed Kearns Chief Data Officer, First Street Foundation
“Google Earth Engine has empowered our Cambodian Department of Agricultural Land Resources Management office, allowing us to monitor cropland, analyze land use, and map our national cashew cover. Previously, updating a province's land cover map took up to a year. After SIG's training on this Google Earth Engine-based workflow, we were able to map 400,000 hectares of cashew plantations across 25 provinces very quickly.”
Chaya Veasna Vice Chief of Office, DALRM
“The SIG team´s experience and deep understanding of applied geospatial solutions was invaluable in assisting ACCA in developing the RADAR Mining Monitoring (RAMI) platform. The dedication demonstrated throughout our collaboration exceeded our expectations and continues to help us improve the platform.”
Sidney Novoa Sheppard Director of GIS & Technology Applied for Conservation, Conservación Amazonia - ACCA
“SIG has been instrumental in establishing the SERVIR-Mekong Biophysical M&E Dashboard, revolutionizing data accessibility in Cambodia. This initiative marks a significant leap in enhancing environmental monitoring and management capabilities in the region.”
Adam Duncan Geospatial Technical Lead, Conservation International Asia-Pacific
"Once Earth Observation evidence became an eligible verification methodology for our target carbon credit market, Mitsui saw an opportunity to increase enrollment—but we lacked in-house expertise to build a scalable solution. SIG’s operational expertise allowed us to co-develop a tailored methodology that integrates seamlessly into our protocols, and Google Cloud was the right cloud provider"
Takuto Shimode Project Manager of Integrated Digital Strategy Div., Mitsui & Co.

Science for good

Spatial Informatics Group—Natural Assets Laboratory

Established in 2012, SIG-Natural Assets Library (SIG-NAL) is our non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the valuable ecosystem assets while focusing on public interest. We advocate for the true value of ecosystem services to be incorporated into economic decisions, and collaborate with interdisciplinary groups to make our mission a reality.
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Spatial Informatics Group
2529 Yolanda Ct.
Pleasanton, CA 94566

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Ecosystem Services
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