Sustainable Cities

In 2016, SIG did a mooring buoy inventory on the California side of Lake Tahoe, from shoreline to 2000 feet offshore. The inventory accounted for and recorded the geographic positions of all [...]

Maponics Inc is a company that develops digital geographic boundaries for a number of large corporate clients, like Realtor.com, Trulia and Redfin. SIG developed for Maponics a nationwide map of [...]

Urban heat islands are metropolitan areas that are notably warmer than the areas surrounding them. This extra heat comes from the activity of cities: more cars expelling exhaust, decreased green [...]

SIG developed an urban forest analysis approach that can be used to track avoided pollutant emissions, carbon sequestration and other benefits at the tree or property scales as part of an [...]

An urban ecological land-cover map containing 37 unique classes was created for New York City using object-based imagery analysis (OBIA) techniques in conjunction with multispectral orthoimagery, [...]

High-speed internet plays a significant role in today’s virtual economy – yet many rural communities through the United States do not have sufficient access. The Tahoe Prosperity Center (TPC) [...]

SIG generated spatially explicit maps for all hard impervious surfaces, including roads, sidewalks, parking areas, and buildings in the Lake Tahoe Basin using high resolution LiDAR imagery.

Karis Tenneson, Director of the Environmental Mapping Domain at Spatial Informatics Group, leads a team of remote sensing and sustainability scientists. With a diverse background in ecology, [...]

Jarrett Barbuto is a geospatial analyst and research scientist for SIG Carbon. Prior to joining SIG, Jarrett was a supervisory GIS technician at University of Vermont’s Spatial Analysis Lab, and [...]

John Dilger received a B.S. from the University of San Francisco (USF) in Environmental Science as well as a GIS certification from USF’s Geospatial Analysis Lab. Prior to joining SIG, John [...]