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…
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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…
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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…
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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,”…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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SIG and Partners Launch Collect Earth Online

In collaboration with NASA (via SERVIR), SilvaCarbon, the US Forest Service, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations…
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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…
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Quantifying Ecosystem Service Benefits of Reducing Large Wildfires

Large, high severity wildfires are of great concern in California. These fires create considerable air pollutant emissions and can compromise ecosystem services…
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Assessing Extreme Fire Risk for California for Public Utilities

In October 2007, wildfires burned hundreds of square miles in Southern California, and many of these were thought to have…
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