Following the creation of the Paris Agreement, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) created the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT Project), [...]

PYRECAST – EASY-TO-USE NEAR-TERM FIRE FORECASTING TOOLS FOR IMPROVED WILDFIRE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. Please join us as Dr. Chris Lautenberger presents the latest features and functions of the [...]

In March, the Climate Action Reserve’s Climate Forward program approved SIG’s Reduced Emissions from Megafires (REM) forecasting methodology. This methodology provides a novel [...]

After visiting conferences throughout the last year, SIG-NAL’s Executive Director, Graham Wesolowski details his experiences initiating a Regional Wildfire Mitigation program: For the past 18 [...]

Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT), SIG Carbon, and the Inlandsis Fund have teamed up to create an exciting new forest carbon aggregation initiative called Wildlands Carbon. Land trusts across the [...]

This week, many large media platforms ran front-page or lead stories on the launch of Fire Factor, a new wildfire prediction tool by First Street Foundation that lets property owners look up [...]

Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) contributed to a fascinating mapping project described in a new post on the Google Earth and Earth Engine Medium page.  Google partnered with CIAT, [...]

Under international climate change agreements, countries must estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation. In cases of deforestation—when trees are cut and [...]

Wood grown in the United States is being ground up, dried out, pressed into pellets, and shipped to Europe, where power plants burn it to make electricity.  Is this good for the planet? The [...]

As we speak, firefighters in Northern California are battling hundreds of blazes across 775,000 acres, sparked by dry lightning strikes. Unfortunately, disastrous wildfire seasons in our state [...]