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A Global Meta-Analysis of Forest Bioenergy Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounting Studies
Wildfire is the most influential factor in determining the carbon-payback period for forest biomass energy projects. Research in the past…Learn More
Development of a Low Emission Land Use Planning (LELUP) University Curricula
SIG has been part of a two year partnership between the USAID LEAF project, and 12 separate universities across SE…Learn More
Nationwide Crime Map for Maponics
Maponics Inc is a company that develops digital geographic boundaries for a number of large corporate clients, like Realtor.com, Trulia…Learn More
SERVIR-Mekong
SERVIR is a global program that provides scientific and technical know-how to help developing countries use geospatial information and technologies…Learn More
Mapping an Urban Heat Island Index for California
Urban heat islands are metropolitan areas that are notably warmer than the areas surrounding them. This extra heat comes from…Learn More
An Assessment of Ecosystem Services Valuation on Kamehameha Schools Lands
SIG is currently working with Hawaii’s largest private landowner to help them integrate an ecosystem services framework into their land…Learn More
Energy and Carbon Verification for the Sacramento Region
SIG developed an urban forest analysis approach that can be used to track avoided pollutant emissions, carbon sequestration and other…Learn More
California’s regulatory forest carbon market: Viability for northeast landowners
Carbon markets have the potential to reward landowners for improved forest management and forest conservation. To date, the Over the…Learn More
Mapping of Exotic Plants in Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Park National Recreation Area
SIG is working in collaboration with UC Berkeley to help map rare and exotic plants at Point Reyes and Golden…Learn More
Urban Ecological Land Cover Mapping for New York City
An urban ecological land-cover map containing 37 unique classes was created for New York City using object-based imagery analysis (OBIA)…Learn More
Forest Inventories on US Navy Lands
SIG designed and implemented comprehensive forest inventories at 4 US Navy Facilities, including Naval Air Station Oceana (NASO), Naval Auxiliary Landing…Learn More
Monitoring Desired Conditions for Vegetation and Wildlife Habitat: An Independent Test of Proposed Indicators for Monitoring Vegetation in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Generated spatially explicit maps for all live trees and associated characteristics such as crown closure, location, and tree height for…Learn More
Geospatial Analysis Services for the “Connected Tahoe Project”
High-speed internet plays a significant role in today’s virtual economy – yet many rural communities through the United States do…Learn More
Forest Carbon Offset Projects
SIG has completed over 15 forest carbon offset assessments for several project areas and registered nearly 8 million carbon credits. Services…Learn More
Assessment of fire hazard/risk in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and Stream Environment Zones (SEZs)
In 2013, SIG completed a fire hazard and risk assessment for the entire Lake Tahoe Basin, with an analysis focused…Learn More
Developing Costed Greenhouse Gas Reference and Emissions Reduction/Enhanced Removal Scenarios for Subnational REDD+ Planning Applications in Vietnam
SIG conducted an integrated scenario forest land use planning and opportunity cost-benefit analysis for the the Lam Dong province and…Learn More
