ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING & GIS

Adapting Landscapes:

From urban forestry initiatives to isolated wilderness areas, time has a habit of moving forward - bringing change along with it.  Sometimes slow, sometimes fast - being aware of how an environment is changing and what variables are having a critical impact on a natural system is key towards effective environmental and resource management...

Assessing Change:

Change takes place in many forms - some are very visible to the human eye while others subtler, in turn there are various options available for assessment:

Imaging: While natural color imagery can provide rich information about a landscape such as grow boundaries, erosional patterns, and land-use, other multispectral resources, such as color-infrared and thermal, can provide further information including chemical contamination, vegetation health, watershed permeation, and water quality. More...

Mapping: Documenting specific features of the landscape allows for understanding of variables at play and their relationship to one another. This can include understanding of the terrain in the form of models or elevation contours to the recording of infrastructure, hydrologic paths, and structures while documenting active condition of these elements. More...

Analytics:  The power of Geographic information Systems lie in their ability to reveal patterns which would otherwise not beintuitively apparent.  Approaching environmental management with GIS allows users to document and organize various sources of imaging and mapping information and then synthesize and analyze this information so that the 'how and why' of change can be better understood and acted on. More...

Response & Planning:

Things rarely standstill. Sometimes things get worse, such as a chemical spill and water table contamination, or get better, such as wetland regeneration and well guided development projects.  In any event, finding effective ways to guide and manage change towards responsible goals relies on the clear understanding of an environment and its systems.  With this in mind, a solid geographic information backbone can go a long way towards valuable and actionable data. Interested in learning more,  feel free to get in touch with us today.