Skill areas

Skill areas EOCI provides

land (mapping; urban; grasslands; crops; forestry; land cover / use; hydrology; erosion; flooding);
urban (development; growth; use of developed land; access routes; run-off paths; flooding; settlement;);
marine (sea surface temperature; water motions; wave energy fields; sedimentation);
coastal (inter-tidal zone; drainage channels; estuarine; erosion/sedimentation; wave energy; habitat) and
ice fields (glaciers; sea-ice; snow-type mapping; traverse and landing-zone planning; mapping).

developing analysis path with user;
on site support to task;
assessing information content to meet user specific task requirements;
impartial assessment of confidence levels in analyses and products;
error analysis in “crisp/hard” and “fuzzy/soft” classifications;
integration of data (raster, vector, point data; airborne, satellite, surface-based; decision rules);
geographic information systems to match user requirements.

transferring knowledge from R&D results into operational processes;
commercialisation (market assessment, review of competition, framing of “niche opportunities”, SWOT analysis, step-by-step business planning, review of partnering opportunities);
Invitation To Tender framing and proposal reviews;
impartial review of national, intra-regional, and international policies and programmes.

EOCI has current on ground expertise within: UK; Western Europe; South Asia; South East Asia; Australia; New Zealand; Pacific Islands; Antarctica; and the USA.

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