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Monitoring Invasive Species in Lake Tahoe Using Remote Sensing
Lake Tahoe is an ecological gem and major tourism hub in the Sierra Nevadas, visited by over 3 million people…Learn More
Carbon Life Cycle Assessments for Wood Pellets from Oregon
Thomas Buchholz and Dave Schmidt provided a carbon life cycle analysis for biomass production under various restoration thinning scenarios in…Learn More
California’s 4th Climate Assessment: Innovations in Forest Carbon
The second report that SIG and partners prepared for California’s 4th Climate Assessment, is entitled “Innovations in Measuring and Monitoring…Learn More
American Forest Foundation: Western Wildfire Assessment
In this project, SIG worked with American Forest Foundation (AFF) to assess existing data and information resources on high wildfire…Learn More
GHG Accounting for Millennium Challenge Corporation in Indonesia
SIG supported ICF International in creating greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting frameworks for Green Prosperity Projects in Indonesia which were…Learn More
Expanding a California Wildfire Emissions Protocol to Colorado
Since 2018, SIG was the research lead for the “Quantifying Ecosystem Service Benefits of the Reduced Occurrence of Significant Wildfires,”…Learn More
High Resolution UAS Mapping of Forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains
The SIG Unmanned Aerial System Team recently mapped an area of dense redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The…Learn More
Forest Inventory at “Dead Mans Gulch” near Santa Cruz, California
SIG worked in the Santa Cruz flying aerial imagery and installing permanent research plots for the beginning of a long-term…Learn More
UAV Assessment of Impervious Land Cover in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Pavement, buildings, and other sorts of “impervious land cover” seal off soil surfaces, which prevents natural groundwater recharge and rainwater…Learn More
Hydrology Mapping using Google Earth Engine in Paraguay and Indonesia
Dr. Ate Poortinga lead two 4-day workshops on hydrology mapping using Google Earth Engine (GEE). The workshops were held in…Learn More
Report: Sustainable Working Forests, Current Conditions in California
Since the 1970’s, the California legislature requires CALFIRE's Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) to produce periodic assessments of the…Learn More
Report: Spatially Distributed Hydrological Ecosystem Services
Recent international scientific developments in remote sensing are rapid and significant, leading to the distribution of spatial, quantitative data on…Learn More
Carbon Emissions From Wood Pellets in the Northeastern US
SIG worked with the Northern Forest Center based in Maine, through an independent third-party study to determine the greenhouse impacts…Learn More
UAV Flood Inundation Assessment for South Lake Tahoe Public Utilities
Spatial Informatics Group and The University of Vermont, Spatial Analysis Lab, teamed up to complete a flood inundation map of sewage…Learn More
NASA, FAO, USFS Bring Collect Earth Online to Users Everywhere
SIG has been collaborating with NASA (via SERVIR), SilvaCarbon, the US Forest Service, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United…Learn More
Mooring Buoy Inventory for Development on Lake Tahoe
In 2016, SIG did a mooring buoy inventory on the California side of Lake Tahoe, from shoreline to 2000 feet…Learn More
