Land Intelligence Report
Sowdari سودري, North Kordufan, Sudan
46,458 ha · 16.3942, 28.3888 · Foundational work first. The potential follows.
The reading in full
This 46,458-hectare parcel near Sowdari سودري, North Kordufan, Sudan is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. It scores 26 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint. Low rainfall limits what can be grown without irrigation and raises the cost and importance of water storage and supply. Dry spells are projected to run about 228 days by 2050. A long rain-free stretch — not the yearly total — is what empties soil moisture and storage; size water storage and choose drought-tolerant planting to the dry spell, not the annual average. This area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050. Large shifts in temperature and rainfall can change what the land can support, so any plan should be built around the projected conditions, not current ones.
The wider readings: The land is projected to see roughly 228 hot days a year by 2050. Many days above 32 °C stress crops, livestock, workers, and unshaded ground; favour heat-tolerant species, shade, and water retention, and plan for cooling and storage. This parcel is a position in a watershed, not an island. What arrives here is decided upstream, and what happens here is felt downstream — land use on this parcel is water stewardship for everyone below it. Read the upstream land uses before trusting the water, and count the downstream neighbours before changing it. The land is flat. Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging. Little wildlife has been formally recorded here. A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions. Soil organic carbon is low. Low-carbon soil is typically depleted or sandy; building fertility for productive use takes time, cover crops, and organic inputs. The human fabric around this land is measured, not assumed. Labour, emergencies, schooling, and electricity all run on these distances — they decide what daily life and operations here actually cost. Jurisdiction is part of the parcel. Permits, zoning, water, and roads run through these offices — knowing who governs the land is the first step of every plan that touches it.
What the land is telling us: Read across the record, the land reads as stable: the canopy history shows no meaningful loss in a generation and the water signal is holding, which means the work is to build on a sound base rather than to reverse a decline. Of the land's core processes, the water cycle is the binding constraint — rainfall is low, so what the land can carry is set by how water is stored and held and community dynamics are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. What orbit cannot see is what happens below the surface — soil biology, structure, and the carbon held in the ground — so treat those as the first things to confirm underfoot. Taken together, this is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access.
The verdict
Foundational work first. The potential follows.
Sowdari سودري, North Kordufan, Sudan
Frontier tier · 0 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Ecology
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.
Standing
Not yet ranked — the wall is still too small for a fair cohort. It sharpens as readings land.
Coverage
15 of 25 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Silent: the river and road trace, Sentinel-2, the radar +7.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 30
Best-fit model
Regenerative village
Fit from published rules over the indicators.
The land in numbers
Headline figures. The Why tab carries each reading in full, with its source and its date. “Not read” means the source had nothing for this parcel: a gap is named, never filled with a guess.
How this land works
About 13 mm of rain falls here in a year. 0% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (0.2° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. By 2050 the models expect +0.9 °C and +92% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy record shows no meaningful loss in a generation.
A community sited on the working matrix. Larger, accessible, and buildable near existing settlement, this matrix land has room for a regenerative community that keeps the habitat edges intact and restores the rest. To help: plant along the watercourses and the ridge: canopy there returns the most water to the rest.
The score is the footnote. What matters is the pattern above it: what arrives, what the ground does with it, what leaves, and which way that is moving.
This place
46,458 hectares at Sowdari سودري of gentle land around 451 m. The ground reads 0% under canopy. Water shapes it — 13 mm of rain a year. 2,550 people within 5 km, governed from Sowdari سودري.
A community sited on the working matrix. Larger, accessible, and buildable near existing settlement, this matrix land has room for a regenerative community that keeps the habitat edges intact and restores the rest.
This is an outsider's reading, assembled from instruments and public records. It is where understanding begins, not where it ends — the land, its neighbours, and the people who know it hold the rest.
The parcel from orbit
Finding the latest clear satellite pass…
Reading the land's record…
The water’s position
What arrives here is decided upstream; what happens here is felt downstream. The map in the Land tab can draw both.
Screening hydrography, never a legal drainage determination.
The people around it
Who governs this land
السودان · شمال كردفان North Kordofan · Sowdari سودري
What the land is exposed to — and what stands against it
The hazard screen did not answer for this parcel, so no reading is paired here — the adaptation layer alone is shown below the seismic record.
What the record remembers
No heritage features recorded within 10 km of this parcel.
Locations are deliberately withheld; presence is shown at landscape scale only. Recorded presence in the open public record only. Absence of information here is not evidence of absence — national heritage registries are the authority.
Relationships
A parcel is a node in living systems, not an island. Each line below is derived from this reading itself.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: estimated, from a model, not a measurement · official, from a public or state record.
- estimated
This parcel collects the water of its watershed— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- estimated
This parcel sends its water down Downstream flowpath144 km mapped below the parcel— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- official
This parcel answers to Sowdari سودري
- official
Sowdari سودري sits in شمال كردفان North Kordofan
- official
شمال كردفان North Kordofan sits in السودان
Where it sits
A living system does not stop at the fence. The parcel is a node in each of these, and it plays a different part at each scale.
- 1
parcel
46,458 ha inside the boundary
mostly open ground
0% tree cover
- 2
catchment
its catchment
a sink: a large country drains through it
144 km of mapped path below
The threads
Where the readings connect. Each thread follows one chain of cause and consequence across the instruments, and ends in what it means for what you do.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: recorded, from the historical archive · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page · observed, measured from satellite or map data · estimated, from a model, not a measurement · scientific, from a published study.
The forest here has held for a generation.
- recordedThis canopy has held: 0% cover in 2000, 0% lost since, none of it recent.
What to doThe work here is keeping, not fixing — and the first walk should confirm the stand is as intact up close as it reads from orbit.
Bears on the land's living value · high confidence
The weakest number here is a silence, not a judgment.
- derivedThe ecology pillar reads 0 — but it leans on almost no recorded wildlife observations, and absence of records usually reflects absence of surveys, not absence of life.
- derivedTreat that pillar — and the composite it drags — as a floor: one field survey could move this reading materially, in only one direction.
What to doCommission a rapid biodiversity survey before treating the score as the land's ceiling.
Bears on the score itself · high confidence
More water is arriving — and arriving harder.
- observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +164.2% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
- estimatedThat energy leaves along a mapped 144 km downstream path — what this parcel's cover holds back, the people below never have to absorb.
What to doKeep or restore cover on the slopes and size drainage for pulses, not averages; verify culverts and crossings in the wet season.
Bears on this land and the people downstream · medium confidence
Strong land, standing on its own.
- derivedThe Land Score reads 26 against a conservation priority of 0.
- derivedIts value is intrinsic rather than positional — the network does not depend on it, which frees what it can be.
What to doPlans here answer to the land itself, not to a network obligation.
Bears on what a plan owes the landscape · medium confidence
This land comes with neighbours.
- scientific2,550 people live within 5 km — this land sits inside a living community.
- derivedThe neighbours are the labor pool, the early-warning system, and the social license — the project's first relationships are already living here.
What to doMeet the neighbours before the notary — what they know and want will shape everything here.
Bears on daily life and operating cost · medium confidence
The loops that govern it
Regeneration is not a feature added to land; it is a loop changing direction. These are the ones the readings can see, which way each is running, and where a hand changes it.
Forest and water
canopy → cloud and rain held → streams and soil moisture → canopy
holding
0% tree cover on 13 mm of rain; 0% of the tree cover lost since 2000.
Plant along the watercourses and the ridge: canopy there returns the most water to the rest.
Open ground and soil
bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil
holding
100% open ground on a 0.2° average slope.
Keep the ground covered through the dry season; rested pasture and cover crops turn this loop around on gentle slopes.
Reading the place
This 46,458-hectare parcel near Sowdari سودري, North Kordufan, Sudan is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access, scoring 26 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint. The first move: build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint.
Low rainfall limits what can be grown without irrigation and raises the cost and importance of water storage and supply.
13 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.
Dry spells are projected to run about 228 days by 2050.
A long rain-free stretch — not the yearly total — is what empties soil moisture and storage; size water storage and choose drought-tolerant planting to the dry spell, not the annual average.
Longest yearly run of days under 1 mm of rain projected near 228 days (Open-Meteo daily climate).
This area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050.
Large shifts in temperature and rainfall can change what the land can support, so any plan should be built around the projected conditions, not current ones.
Projected change by 2050: +0.9 °C mean temperature, +92% rainfall. Exposure rated High.
The land is projected to see roughly 228 hot days a year by 2050.
Many days above 32 °C stress crops, livestock, workers, and unshaded ground; favour heat-tolerant species, shade, and water retention, and plan for cooling and storage.
About 228 days a year with a daily high of 32 °C or more by the 2050 horizon up from about 227 today (Open-Meteo daily climate).
This parcel is a position in a watershed, not an island.
What arrives here is decided upstream, and what happens here is felt downstream — land use on this parcel is water stewardship for everyone below it. Read the upstream land uses before trusting the water, and count the downstream neighbours before changing it.
its own water runs 144 km downstream of it (MERIT-Hydro screening hydrography).
The land is flat.
Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging.
Mean elevation 451 m, mean slope 0°, 45 m of relief.
Little wildlife has been formally recorded here.
A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions.
Only 1 biodiversity records nearby (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
Soil organic carbon is low.
Low-carbon soil is typically depleted or sandy; building fertility for productive use takes time, cover crops, and organic inputs.
3.2 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, sandy clay loam texture, pH 8.2 (ISRIC SoilGrids).
The human fabric around this land is measured, not assumed.
Labour, emergencies, schooling, and electricity all run on these distances — they decide what daily life and operations here actually cost.
2,550 people live within 5 km (WorldPop 2020).
Jurisdiction is part of the parcel.
Permits, zoning, water, and roads run through these offices — knowing who governs the land is the first step of every plan that touches it.
السودان · شمال كردفان North Kordofan · Sowdari سودري.
Confidence reflects the data behind each reading: high when clear passes or strong sources agree, medium on a partial or single-source signal, low where the data is sparse or indirect. A low-confidence reading usually needs one more clear pass, or a check on the ground.
What the land is telling us
Read across the record, the land reads as stable: the canopy history shows no meaningful loss in a generation and the water signal is holding, which means the work is to build on a sound base rather than to reverse a decline.
Of the land's core processes, the water cycle is the binding constraint — rainfall is low, so what the land can carry is set by how water is stored and held and community dynamics are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. What orbit cannot see is what happens below the surface — soil biology, structure, and the carbon held in the ground — so treat those as the first things to confirm underfoot.
Taken together, this is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access.
Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment
Standalone conservation value, outside the mapped network.
standalone value, outside the mapped network
Two lenses, two numbers: the Land Score reads this land's own body; conservation priority reads its position in the network. When they disagree, the gap itself is the finding.
This reads as working land best held as a buffer, scoring 0 out of 100 for conservation priority. It carries standalone value outside the mapped network — worth holding on its own terms.
The funding layer: a small, low-footprint operation sited on the already-worked ground, sized to carry the restoration — never spending the habitat it depends on.
This reads as working land — its role is to buffer the core, not to be the core.
Land like this holds the habitat's edge: kept in low-impact use, it shields the intact land beside it from encroachment and gives the living network room to breathe.
0% tree cover.
A modest hospitality layer is possible, but it is not the strongest card.
In the regenerative model the lodging is a means, not the end: a low-footprint operation sited on the already-worked ground earns the revenue that funds the restoration and stewardship, while the core is left to recover. Kept small, it also gives the corridor local guardians with a reason to hold it.
Hospitality fit 30/100, drawing on the setting. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.
Capital moves
- 01
Tie up the land before restoring it — purchase or an easement that holds through a sale.
Before committingRestoration is a multi-year investment; without secure tenure the connectivity it builds can be undone by the next owner.
Confirm on the ground · Trace the title and cadastral record, and check what conservation-finance the jurisdiction offers before committing.
- 02
Thicken cover along the parcel's edges and watercourses to widen what species can move through.
First yearAs a stepping stone or buffer, the parcel's contribution is its edges and riparian strips — the parts that link to the habitat next door.
Confirm on the ground · With an ecologist, identify the connecting strips worth planting first; confirm which watercourses cross the land at the end of the dry season.
- 03
Set a wildlife baseline and re-read it — camera traps on the parcel's connecting edges.
OngoingFunders and partners judge conservation land by whether wildlife actually uses it; a repeatable baseline is what turns the thesis into evidence and steers the next round of capital.
Confirm on the ground · Run camera traps and species counts on a fixed schedule and track movement between the parcel and the habitat beside it.
The deployment reading is a screening lens layered on the Land Score — it points capital at the land where it builds the most connectivity, and each move is paired with the ground-truth step that confirms it.
The physical frame
Climate, water, soil, and shape — what the land is made of and what moves across it.
Climate · to 2050
Annual rainfall, 2004–2024 · mm
Exposure · High
2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 0.9°C warmer than today's, with 92% more rain. Expect is the honest verb: this is the middle of a range of futures, not a certainty — so design to the range, not to today.
Water
Soil · 0–30 cm
Sandy clay loam
Terrain & cover
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
Ecology
Pandion haliaetus
Pressure
Source unavailable for this parcel.
Forest history · since 2000
Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11
Future · the horizons the engine has read
Now
- Mean temperature
- 26.9 °C
- Rain, latest year (2024)
- 90 mm
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 227
- Longest dry spell
- 230 days
- Mean elevation
- 451 m
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 13 mm is the long mean, and with the record up 164% in twenty years, recent years sit above it by design.
2050
- Temperature shift
- +0.9 °C+0.3 to +0.9 °C across 4 models
- Rainfall shift
- +92 %+92 to +129 % across 4 models
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 228 (+1)
- Longest dry spell
- 228 days (-2)
- Exposure
- High — a hard projected shift — plan around it
- Resilience reading
- 10 / 100
The resilience reading is the climate pillar from the five dials above — one number, shown here beside the horizon it scores.
The headline projection is one model family (CMIP6 · MPI-ESM1-2-XR via Open-Meteo); the range beside it spans 4 CMIP6 HighResMIP models. All of them run one emissions scenario (SSP5-8.5) — several models, not several futures. The 2045–2049 window stands in for 2050, and expect is the honest word. Intermediate horizons (2030 · 2040) and 2100 are not shown because the engine has not read them — TERRA does not interpolate between measurements.
Best-fit regenerative model
Regenerative village
36 / 100 fitA community sited on the working matrix.
Larger, accessible, and buildable near existing settlement, this matrix land has room for a regenerative community that keeps the habitat edges intact and restores the rest.
Larger, accessible, buildable land near existing settlement — room for a regenerative community that leaves the habitat edges intact and restores the rest.
Also consider · Regenerative agroforestry estate (29)
A published, rules-based suggestion read from the parcel's own indicators — forest, water, slope, access, and its place in the network. It names the shape of project the land is already set up to carry; confirm it against tenure, soils, and what you know from the ground. These fit numbers rank whole project models against each other; the deployment lens's hospitality fit (30/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match.
What to do
- 01
Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
First dry seasonWater, not the yearly total, is the limiting factor here; storage and drought-tolerant choices decide what the land can carry.
Confirm on the ground · Measure the springs, wells, and watercourses at the end of the dry season, when supply is at its lowest — that is the number to plan against.
- 02
Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
First yearThe land is strongly exposed to projected change, so species, water storage, and infrastructure should be chosen for the conditions ahead.
Confirm on the ground · Cross-check the projections against the memory of long-time residents on how the seasons have already shifted here.
- 03
Carry out a field biodiversity survey to see what the records miss.
First yearA thin record here usually reflects little survey effort, not little life; what actually lives on the parcel shapes both its value and its constraints.
Confirm on the ground · Have an ecologist survey across seasons; local naturalists and birders often already know the site.
- 04
Start with a ground survey, then sequence the foundational work — water, then soil, then access.
First yearThis is the longest game; the early foundational work is what makes everything downstream possible.
Confirm on the ground · Survey the parcel, then stage the work by permanence — water and structure first, plantings last.
Questions to sit with
- If the seasons here shift as the models expect, which of your intentions for the land still hold — and which need rethinking now?
- Are you here to hold this land as it is, to work it, or to help it change — and does the reading above serve that intention?
- If the work succeeds, what do the water, the canopy, and the people around this land look like a generation from now — and what is the first condition that has to change for that to begin?
- Where does this reading disagree with what you have seen walking the land? That disagreement is the first thing to check on the ground.
These are not data gaps — they are the questions the data cannot answer.
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Sources & method · 15 layers→
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Nearest fire station, emergency post, flood/coastal defence, water works, monitoring station, coastline — mapped presence, not effectiveness
Recorded historic/heritage features within 10 km — generalized to counts, classes and distance bands; never coordinates
Named places and features of the surrounding landscape (titles + distances)
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
SoilGrids v2.0 (SOC, pH, sand, clay; 0–30 cm)
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)
Gridded population 2020 (parcel + 5 km ring sums)
M ≥ 5 events within 100 km, past 50 years
Administrative hierarchy + structured facts of the governing unit
Every number above is public, open data — named, dated, and licensed. What TERRA does not publish is the lens: the weights, curves, and verdict thresholds that turn these layers into a Land Score. That judgment is calibrated from land walked on the ground, and it stays proprietary.
Unavailable for this parcel: the river and road trace, Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the siting geometry, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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Generated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:35:32 GMT · synthesized by TERRA · Dear Wise Earth.