SIG is built on a foundation of academic rigor and breadth, professional effectiveness, and technological advances. Founded in 1998, SIG is a consulting think-tank that uses high-end geographic analysis to answer questions in the fields of ecology, economics, planning, and engineering. SIG’s interdisciplinary team of Ph.D.-level experts brings decades of innovative research experience from a breadth of environmental fields to tackle some of the most challenging problems in environmental management. Currently, our focus lies in four particular areas: 1) natural hazards assessment, planning, and mitigation, 2) ecosystem service quantification and management, 3) forest health and carbon analysis, and 4) image classification. SIG’s group members are experts in using tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, spatial data mining, and dynamic spatial modeling. But SIG is more than a technical GIS consulting firm. Our analysts are also specialists in relevant fields such as landscape ecology and forestry. Too often, firms and their technicians are not proficient in the field they are applying the spatial analysis to. As a result, clients must often spend large amounts of time "hand-holding" consultants. With their extensive experience in closely integrating spatial analysis with substantive research, SIG’s analysts are able to quickly grasp complex problems and apply the appropriate tools to solving these problems with minimal client time and support. This versatility allows SIG to be efficient and dynamically involved in all aspects of a project, from routine tasking, to managing projects and producing deliverables.