Geographic Resource Solutions

GRS is a leader in the design and implementation of ecologically-based integrated field data collection methodologies designed to provide comprehensive, quantitative, and detailed species-specific cover estimates of the botanical and abiotic features that comprise the ecosystems we must accurately describe.

GRS offers "state-of-the-art" natural resource inventory and land cover mapping services based on the application of our unique Discrete Classification Mapping Methodology in combination with traditional vendor provided applications; GRS maps (not models) species-specific cover as a continuous variable, along with other landscape and abiotic characteristics to develop comprehensive resource inventory information. Since 1996, GRS natural resource inventory data sets have contained species-specific stand list/table data representing stocking(trees/acre) by dbh, height, canopy level, height, crown diameter, and cover for every individually mapped stand polygon, thereby enabling growth projection, as well as the estimation of species-specific inventory volume(s) and biomass.