Monitoring Forest Health

We're helping Washington DNR to develop a forest assessment and treatment framework based on a regularly updated set of current forest condition layers.
Tulalip Forest, Water, and Climate

Exploring the ways forest management can mitigate the effects of climate change on the hydrology of the Snohomish basin.
Open Source Forest Management

We're helping the United Nations develop an open source forest ecosystem tool to plan and track forest management alternatives over time.
20 Years of Forest & Fish

We're part of a team helping to understand the impacts of the Forests & Fish law on small forest landowners 20 years after the passage of the Salmon Recovery Act.
California Biopower Impact Project

We're helping to quantify the net recoverable energy from forestlands that could be used for electricity generation.
Standardizing Parcels

NRSIG unifies data from over 40 different providers into THE land ownership database for Washington State
Incubating an Industry

With $40 million and 5 years you can do anything. We're helping incubate a sustainable biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest with big data.

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Natural Resource Spatial Informatics Group

We are a research group within the Precision Forestry Cooperative at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. We provide technologies and expertise for analyzing forestry and agricultural issues, specializing in large spatial scales and big data. Our goal is to enable landscape, state, and regional scale analyses while simultaneously using the highest resolution data sets available. Our focus is on applied problems that integrate environmental, social, and economic objectives to consider the sustainability, acceptability, and productivity of management opportunities.