ARIES is a next generation web application meant to make environmental decisions easier and more effective. ARIES helps you discover, understand, and quantify environmental assets and what factors influence their value, in a geographical area of your choice and according to your needs.

Created by a partnership of international experts, NGOs, and academics, ARIES pairs user and expert knowledge with advanced artificial intelligence to construct a model of your case study, making sure that not even a bit of relevant data or knowledge is overlooked. The result of an ARIES user session is an environmental asset portfolio that describes in depth the spatial distribution of the natural assets in your area, their potential and realized economic values, and the causal relationships that link the values to each other and to actual or potential policies. All the decisions taken during an ARIES session are yours, and the portfolio includes documentation and references to justify each and every operation, dataset, or model used to create it.

ARIES development started on April 1, 2007 thanks to a generous grant to the UVM Ecoinformatics Collaboratory from the National Science Foundation. The official ARIES web site is the place to go to keep updated on its development and to access other, related tools and services.