With in-house GIS capacity, CSI is able to provide mapping services a la carte or as a component of other services. GIS mapping is an extremely useful means of managing habitat data. The information used for creating a GIS map comes from a variety of sources. For example, maps can be overlaid showing aerial views, roads, boundary lines, streams, wetlands, land use, stand management, species occurrences, etc. Because this information is in a digital format, it makes analysis and modeling possible.

CSI incorporates information collected with our GPS units which include Trimble XRS Pro, Garmin V and Garmin III. Maps are produced with ESRI's ArcView GIS that allow us to do a variety of analyses such as calculate the area of a wetland or, as in the map shown below, the home ranges of radio-tracked pine snakes.