West Forest LLC, has undertaken the development of a composite wood panel production facility in northern California. As part of this initiative,
A group of bioenergy experts, including several members of the SIG Team, are pushing for its use to comply with the newly
California landowners, land managers, and planners are acutely aware of their region’s exposure to wildfire and its associated hazards. Local, state, and
To ensure that the initiatives developed adequately addressed Cambodia’s needs, SIG teams worked closely with the Cambodian Department of Agriculture and Land
Please join us as Dr. Chris Lautenberger presents the latest features and functions of the PyreCast near-term fire forecasting platform developed as
In March, the Climate Action Reserve’s Climate Forward program approved SIG’s Reduced Emissions from Megafires (REM) forecasting methodology. This methodology provides a
After visiting conferences throughout the last year, SIG-NAL’s Executive Director, Graham Wesolowski details his experiences initiating a Regional Wildfire Mitigation program:
Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT), SIG Carbon, and the Inlandsis Fund have teamed up to create an exciting new forest carbon aggregation initiative
Under international climate change agreements, countries must estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation.
In cases of deforestation—when trees
This week, many large media platforms ran front-page or lead stories on the launch of Fire Factor, a new wildfire prediction tool
Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) contributed to a fascinating mapping project described in a new post on the Google Earth and Earth Engine
Wood grown in the United States is being ground up, dried out, pressed into pellets, and shipped to Europe, where power plants
Firefighters in California battle 775,000 acres of fires from dry lightning. SIG built Pyregence, a wildfire forecasting tool
Biomass energy, Michael Moore’s new documentary Planet of the Humans faces criticism from environmentalists for using outdated data and simplistic analyses on
Tribal leaders in remote Vietnam now use e-tablets to map lands, showing how tech helps rural communities leapfrog development and modernize.
Carbon markets are based on the premise that sources (greenhouse gas-emitting power plants, vehicles, farm animal waste) and sinks (greenhouse gas-absorbing forests,
SIG co-developed software to remotely monitor gold mining activity in Colombia. Illegal mining is a driver of deforestation and this project aims
Followers of environmental issues in the Amazon scarcely go a week without seeing news about threats to the biome. The region has
Decades of scientific research have been suggesting that humans accrue many positive benefits from nature, whether that nature be in an isolated
SERVIR has been set up in many regions of the world, and the Lower Mekong Region is one of them. SERVIR-Mekong focuses
In 2015, the world experienced the strongest El Niño year on record, and forest fires tore through homes, businesses and lives in
In an increasingly populated, financially-strained, and ecologically-stressed world, scientists are facing mounting pressure to find quick answers to social and environmental challenges.
This week, we’re blogging about SIG’s work on reducing wildfire impacts in Indonesia and California. Fires in both regions have similar financial
A picture is worth a thousand words, but it helps to have the right picture for your application. That is why SIG
Dr. Thomas Buchholz, Senior Scientist at SIG, will be in Kenya this spring to provide assistance in biomass supply chain management to
Brett Shields and Dr Chris Mallek conducted a 5 day fire training course on behalf of the US Forest Service and Burung
SIG attended the 4th LEDS GP meeting in the Dominican Republic, focusing on financing low-emission development and climate resilience strategies.
Scott Muller, Senior Scientist, led a workshop on Low Emission Urban Transportation in Lima as LAC countries advance climate action plans and
SIG co-developed software to remotely monitor gold mining activity in Colombia. Illegal mining is a driver of deforestation and this project aims
SIG co-developed software to remotely monitor gold mining activity in Colombia. Illegal mining is a driver of deforestation and this project aims
