GIS for a Changing World

About TCA

America's farms and forestlands represent an integral pillar of comprehensive policies to address our nation's energy security and climate change. The emergence of next-generation biofuels, rangeland management, intercropping and enhanced soil sequestration - to name a few - are all tools that the United States must use advantageously to maintain its competitive position in a greenhouse gases constrained - and politically unstable - world. It is, therefore an investment realm of uncommon opportunity for those with the right knowledge.

Just as differing geologic strata yield different mineral and energy outputs, the relative suitability of individual parcels of land to various management options varies greatly, in terms of direct productivity and overall economic efficiency. Further consideration of traditional food productivity and security issues means that maximizing the value of land in the energy and climate nexus involves highly complex choices.

TCA's business is to categorize and analyze vast areas of land on behalf of clients seeking intelligent access to emerging opportunities in energy security and climate change. Our tools enable economic optimization of different biological interventions leading to energy feedstock production or direct carbon management throughout the United States. As landowners, utilities, investors, governments and other parties consider manners in which land value can be optimized according to new metrics, our geospatial analysis distills key data flows into investable propositions and enhanced ROI.