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Development of a Wildland Fire Resiliency Program for the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District
SIG is working with Panorama Environmental to develop a Wildland Fire Resiliency Program for the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD).…Learn More
Avoided wildfire emissions from fuel treatments along Highway 50 in El Dorado County, California
The Highway 50 corridor in Eldorado County, California, is a crucial landscape feature to reduce the risk of megafires in…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
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
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
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
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…Learn More
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…Learn More
California’s 4th Climate Assessment: Treatments for Resilience & Mitigation
SIG, along with partners, has prepared reports for California’s 4th Climate Assessment, published in 2018. California, which led the nation…Learn More
SIG Provides Local Fire Management Training in Sumatra, Indonesia
Brett Shields conducted a 5 day fire training course on behalf of the US Forest Service and Burung Indonesia at…Learn More
Community Wildfire Protection Plan for El Dorado County, California
Spatial Informatics Group is working with the El Dorado County Fire Safe Council to develop a comprehensive Community Wildfire Protection Plan…Learn More
California Forests and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Webinar Series
Dr. Charles Kerchner and Tadashi Moody of Spatial Informatics worked with Dr. Richard Harris and other experts to present a…Learn More
ASEAN Fire Hotspot Phone App
SIG worked with Global Environment Centre (GEC), funded by the USAID LEAF project to design and develop a phone app capable…Learn More
North Selangor Peat Swamp Forest, Integrated Fire Management Plan
SIG partnered with the Global Environment Centre (GEC) to develop Malaysia’s first Integrated Fire Management Plan (IFMP), for the North Selangor…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
Assessment of the Efficacy of the California BLM Community Assistance and Hazardous Fuels Program
The ecosystem service assessment portion of this team study estimated and mapped the value of ecosystem services for three California…Learn More