Environmental Software

Technology Built for science

Software to Level the Playing Field

The Environmental Software Team at Spatial Informatics Group has decades of experience with applied geospatial analysis–in many cases, members of our team have contributed to fundamental advances in the field.

SIG’s software products are designed to provide land managers around the globe with powerful, easy-to-use tools for informed decision making and geospatial collaboration. We put the power of cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and remote sensing in the hands of local agencies anywhere on the planet. As part of SIG’s commitment to open science, most of our software is open source, and most is available for free online.

MORE THAN PRODUCTS

WE CREATE SOLUTIONS

Users in academia, government, NGOs, and private industry–as well as members of the public–use our custom, actionable geospatial applications to manage uncertainty and risk. By automating and scaling data acquisition and analysis, our tools build capacity for our users. Never before have such sophisticated, comprehensive tools been so accessible to so many people.

Actionable Geospatial applications

Scaling Data Acquisition
& Analysis

Applications

Collect Earth Online

Open source solution for collaborative high-resolution satellite imagery interpretation

A system for viewing and interpreting high resolution satellite imagery, CEO enables users to efficiently collect up-to-date information about their environment and observe changes over time. This data empowers users to implement policies to protect the landscape, mitigate climate change, and promote sustainable livelihoods.

Planscape

Free, online wildfire resilience support tool

Decision support tools designed to help wildland planning teams in California identify optimal areas for wildfire resilience treatments. The package combines the latest available data with sophisticated models in a free, open source tool available to all

PyreCast

Platform for viewing active fires and forecasting likely spread

Near real-time fire updates, fire spread forecasts, and fire risk assessments that empower agencies and individuals to make decisions about evacuation orders, suppression and containment strategies, power grid shut-offs, and more.

BehavePlus 7

Classic desktop fire modeling, updated with new science

Desktop Fire Modeling modernized with a new architecture allowing ongoing updates as science develops. A critical tool for land managers who must make decisions in managing real fires.

SARFDAS

Continuous monitoring of forest health in cloudy regions

Synthetic Aperture Radar Forest Disturbance Alert System, SARFDAS for short, is a powerful tool for detecting forest disturbances. It integrates state-of-the-art technologies, automation, and human-based verification in a clean web interface for more timely and accurate decision making and field response. The system aids in effective resource allocation and fosters accurate responses to forest disturbances.

Radar Mining Monitoring - RAMI

Near real-time deforestation and mining monitoring

The RAMI service produces near real-time information on deforestation and mining activity in the southern Peruvian Amazon. It is used to quickly identify both new illegal mining and persistent activity in degraded areas. It also classifies the activity to better understand how mining, legal or otherwise, impacts the forest.