Sustainability science, human security, and Earth information products

ISciences uses science and technology to promote a better understanding of Earth for the mutual benefit of society and the environment.

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING

ISciences develops physics-based semi-empirical models that can identify materials remotely by sampling the full spectrum of light.

WATER SECURITY

ISciences delivers geospatially explicit assessments of global water stress that are actively used in corporate strategic planning.

FOOD SECURITY

ISciences develops tools in active use by US Government agencies to monitor human-environment interactions and provide warning of emerging issues.

SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE

ISciences' team of experts regularly contributes to the public understanding of sustainability and climate change issues affecting human security.

POLITICAL INSTABILITY

ISciences performs historical analyses of conflict events as a function of political, social, economic, and environmental factors.

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK

ISciences develops suites of geospatial indicators to assess specific global environmental risks.

EMERGING THREATS

ISciences develops systems to semantically code current political events into structured taxonomies for identification of emerging threats.

ANTICIPATORY ANALYSIS

ISciences helps find meaning in "Big Data" through our AA framework for anticipation and analysis of emerging threats using focused open-source searches to extract discrete information and combine it with similar events to generate likely outcomes.

WATER SECURITY NEWS

ISciences'expertise in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) helps us develop and deploy customized web applications like our Water Security News that find, harvest, process, and present global news articles in temporal and geographic context.

HOMELAND SECURITY RISK

ISciences develops rigorous methodologies and innovative mash-ups to perform place-based homeland security risk assessment that identifies risk scenarios to nearby businesses and residences.

ISCIENCES NEWS

KYOTO AND BEYOND: A series of PowerPoint slideshows from ISciences on the evolving international climate treaty process.

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