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California Climate Initiative GHG Calculations for the Marin Municipal Water District
Spatial Informatics Group completed the GHG calculations required for a CALFIREs Forest Health Program in support of the Marin Municipal…Learn More
Lake Tahoe Aquatic Plant Monitoring Program
Aquatic Plant Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and 2018 Lake Tahoe Nearshore Aquatic Plant Status Report SIG teamed up with Marine…Learn More
TRPA Policy Assessment Services
For this project, SIG compiled a comprehensive database of every policy and regulation adopted by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency…Learn More
A Review of Stream Environment Zone Definitions, Field Delineation Criteria and Indicators, Classification Systems, and Mapping
Collaborative Recommendations for Stream Environment Zone Program Updates. (Tahoe SEZ PC093) The Stream Environment Zone (SEZ) is a land designation…Learn More
Compliance Monitoring Services
SIG’s wildlife biologists provided the several Bay Area corporations with contractor training and wetland alteration permit compliance monitoring services.Learn More
Use of Remotely Sensed Imagery to Map and Quantify the Extent and Distribution of Lake Tahoe’s Nearshore Substrates and Fish Habitats
SIG’s Environmental Mapping Team mapped surface and submerged littoral substrates in Lake Tahoe, CA, NV from high-resolution satellite imagery using…Learn More
Waterfowl Habitat Condition Assessment
SIG’s wildlife biologists provided the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) with professional services for their Research and Analysis Division. Namely,…Learn More
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
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
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: 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
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
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
The Ecosystem Services Framework in Than Hoa and Nghe An, Vietnam
The goal of this study was to assess baseline ecosystem services in the Than Hoa and Nghe An provinces of Vietnam.…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