What We Do

SIG is unlike most other GIS consulting firms because we integrate our applied core knowledge of GIS directly with our expertise in professional fields: civil engineering, ecology, forestry, environmental economics and planning. We bring extensive PhD-level educational and work experience in our fields that allows us not only to make maps, but to actively participate in projects as scientists and planners. Too often, GIS firms are limited because their knowledge does not extend beyond the software. As a result, clients and project coordinators must often spend large amounts of time "hand-holding" to help the GIS consultants understand the substance of the project, so that meaningful maps and spatial analyses will be produced.

SIG does not suffer from these problems because, when presented with a spatial problem, it is very likely that the substance of it will fall under at least one of our primary or secondary fields of expertise. Not only does this allow us more quickly and completely to understand the nature of the problem, but it allows us to generate effective and creative solutions that employ knowledge from years of PhD-level training. Add to this our expertise in GIS computing technology and it is clear SIG can deliver results unlike any other company. This versatility allows SIG to be dynamically involved in all aspects of a project, from routine tasking, to managing projects, to producing deliverables.

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