• Wildfire risk assessment & mapping
• Fuels treatment planning
• Post-disaster vulnerability analysis
SIG utilizes a comprehensive set of tools and approaches to map, model, and quantify wildfire risk to help build better fire management plans. SIG helps clients assess the assets at risk, develop likely scenarios, and compare costs and benefits under different management options. SIG also has expertise in analyzing post-disaster vulnerabilities of towns and cities, in terms of potential damage to the economy, social structure, and infrastructure.
• Forest monitoring and mapping
• Carbon sequestration modeling
• Analysis of "permanence" & "additionality"
SIG can help clients interested in purchasing, auditing, verifying or certifying forest carbon offsets by providing expert services on the complex dynamics of forest ecosystems. This includes mapping and monitoring forests, estimating forest biomass from remote sensing and field methods, and modeling the growth and disturbance regime of forests under different scenarios. In the process, SIG can help clients determine which forest projects are likely to yield high-quality and legitimate carbon offsets.
• Valuation
• Modeling, mapping & monitoring
• Cost-benefit & scenario analysis
The SIG team has expertise in characterizing and analyzing "ecosystem services"— the free services that nature provides to humans, like water filtration, flood mitigation, and pollination— using both monetary and qualitative approaches. With its proprietary Natural Assets Information System™, which integrates a large literature database with a powerful query and reporting engine, SIG has helped many clients understand, quantify and map the services provided by ecosystems to assist in decision support.