Effective regional planning requires accurate, spatially-explicit information placed in a framework of changing human resource demands. Relevant data come from diverse disciplines including hydrology, soil science, geology, biology, biogeochemistry, geography, and engineering. We help our clients understand their data needs, identify and analyze existing data at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and identify critical data gaps and uncertainties. We synthesize the available information to help our clients and stakeholders understand present conditions, management options, potential outcomes, and key risk factors. We bring years of planning experience and state-of-the-art technology to our clients’ landscape-level and long-term planning needs. Our services in this area include:
Integrative technical analyses
- Project and topical report development
- Synthesis of complex, multi-disciplinary environmental information
- Integration of diverse data sets into a comprehensive systems understanding
Planning coordination
- Meeting facilitation
- Scientific support, advice, and input to planning processes
- Stakeholder survey and involvement
Remote sensing, GIS analysis, and cartography
- Aerial photography and photogrammetry planning, rectification, and orthorectification
- Vegetation/biological resource delineation, classification, and mapping
- Compilation, digitization, and management of vector/raster data
- Data analyses such as cut and fill operations, watershed delineation, automatic buffer delineation and change detection, slope/aspect classification, and much more
- Land use classification and digital elevation modeling
- Database management and analysis including: Relational database development and management, export and link to common database applications
- Multiple media, color, size, resolution, and scale options to suit client needs
- Internet map service (web GIS)
- Project construction
- Migration barrier reconfiguration or removal
- Development of best management practices
- Well installation
- Construction planning and oversight
- Re-vegetation
- As-built surveys