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Forest and Agriculture Management

Optimize your land’s ecological integrity with our multifaceted solutions

Forest and Agriculture Management group
SIG’s Forest & Agriculture Management Team

Sustainable forestry and vegetation management practices

SIG’s Forest and Agriculture Management Group provides landowners with insights into sustainable agriculture, climate change mitigation, wildfire risk assessment, greenhouse gas emissions accounting, and more.

The Forest and Agriculture Management Group uses geospatial analysis in conjunction with sustainable forestry and vegetation management practices to co-develop streamlined management plans designed to meet your objectives and unlock new opportunities.

In keeping with Spatial Informatics Group’s commitment to open science, we provide private, NGO, Tribal, and governmental land managers with powerful, easy to use online tools to inform their management decisions.

We help clients build landscapes resilient to wildfire, climate change, and other challenges. We design projects that sequester and maintain carbon in forests and agricultural soils. We undertake sustainability assessments, including life cycle assessments and carbon footprinting for wood products. We help managers optimize timber production, analyze and improve water quality, and more.

With SIG’s Forest and Agriculture Group on your team, land management is informed by science and comprehensive geospatial intelligence.

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Biomass, Bioenergy and Forest Product Assessment

Supporting forestry through life cycle assessments, quantifying greenhouse gas emissions, and supporting the use of bioenergy instead of fossil-fuels.

Vegetation and Fuels Mapping
SIG’s scientists package cutting edge remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and rigorous ground truthing in easy-to-use open science tools and custom solutions for your landscape. The granular and actionable vegetation and fuels classifications we develop are the first steps towards modeling and fire resilience interventions.
Forest Economics

Essentials for forest management while championing sustainability. Take inventory of your forest from layout to growth schedules, and use our Net Present Value modeling to put conservation first in your projects.

Farming and Forest Inventory and Biometrics
Full scale forest modeling from sprout to harvest. Support your forest operations with insights on crop placement, wildfire history and prediction, invasive species or endangered plants, and much more.
Forest Sustainability Assessments and Certification

Leverage our expertise to discover pathways for sustainable management. Get certified, transition to renewable energy, model and predict land use for future plans, and more.

Case Studies

Scenario Modeling for the Million Acres Strategy

An effective way to reduce wildfire incidence and severity is through treatments that reduce a forest’s fuel load and simplify its vertical structure.
LSIG led the development of the Reduced Emissions from Megafires (REM) forecasting methodology, a way to quantify and monetize carbon emissions…

Marin Jurisdictional Carbon Accounting

SIG created a baseline ecotype map of Marin County, California, and studied the GHG implications of various biomass …

Life Cycle Carbon Assessment of Biomass Power Generation

UK power companies are switching to renewable biomass feedstocks sourced from the southeastern United States. Are the climate benefits real?

Modeling Fire Resiliency from Landscape Scale Fuel Treatments

The American Forest Foundation, SIG scientists evaluated landscape-scale fuels treatments by analyzing treatment levels and spatial arrangement…

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