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Aqueduct is a database created by the World Resource Institute in response to growing concerns from the private sector and other stakeholders about water availability, water quality, climate change, and growing demand. Aqueduct integrates …
Resource Investment Optimization System (RIOS) is a model that recommends better locations for protection and restoration activities.
For the use of InVEST in WaterProof, a series of parameters are used that constitute the biophysical calculation engine that generates results related to annual and seasonal water yield, sediment delivery rate, nutrient delivery rate, and …
The Carbon Storage and Sequestration model is a spatially explicit model that considers that the carbon storage in a plot of land (pixel) depends on four carbon pools: aboveground biomass, underground biomass, soil, and dead organic matter.
The goal of the InVEST nutrient delivery model is to map watershed nutrient sources and their transport to the stream. This spatial information can be used to assess the nutrient retention service by natural vegetation. The retention servi…
InVest service studies how land use conversion and changes in land management practices can dramatically change the amount of sediment that runs off a watershed and consequently affect source water quality. Understanding where the sediment…
Understanding the effect of landscape management on seasonal flow is vitally important for watershed management. Water flowing through the landscape evaporates, transpires, it is drawn down a well, or exits the basin as a deep groundwater …
InVest service that takes into account the annual variability in water volume, given the probable levels for a given basin, analyzing the extreme variation that can be caused by changes in land use and cover (LULC), that is, analizing how …
InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Compensations and Services) is a set of models used to map and value the goods and services of nature that sustain and satisfy human life. It helps to explore how changes in ecosystems can lead to …
The carbon markets aim to ensure that countries reduce their Greenhouse Gas Emissions and comply with the objectives established by the Kyoto Protocol. The market involves actors who can carry out the reduction actions that they sell to ot…
