Land Intelligence Report
Bönigen, Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district, Oberland administrative region
19 ha · 46.6878, 7.9119 · The capacity is present; the work is regeneration.
The reading in full
This 19-hectare parcel near Bönigen, Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district, Oberland administrative region is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 55 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: 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.
Where the upside lies: A watercourse runs through the parcel. On-site water supports irrigation, livestock, and habitat and can lower water-supply costs — though it may carry buffer or setback rules worth checking.
The wider readings: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. 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. The largest buildable bench is 7.28 ha. This is the piece that decides what fits: a single footprint, its access, and its services all have to land on contiguous ground. Everything beyond it is a second site, not an extension of the first. 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. No satellite soil data is available for this parcel. Soil quality cannot be assessed remotely here, so a ground survey is needed before any agricultural or restoration decision. Road and town access are close. Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices. 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 reads as adequate to abundant, so the question is less supply than how well the land captures and holds what falls 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 with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.
The verdict
The capacity is present; the work is regeneration.
Bönigen, Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district, Oberland administrative region
Frontier tier · 32 conservation priority
Four of five readings
Weakest: EcologyNot read: Soil
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land. The unread pillars had their weight redistributed across the rest — reweighted, never guessed.
Standing
Not yet ranked — the wall is still too small for a fair cohort. It sharpens as readings land.
Coverage
13 of 25 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach +9.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 63
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 1,923 mm of rain falls here in a year. 47% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.9° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 149 mapped watercourses cross the land (Lütschine, Lombach), and what leaves it travels 4 km downstream before the mapped path ends. A road runs against the boundary, and the nearest settlement is 1.3 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.2 °C and -15% 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
19 hectares at Bönigen of gentle land around 574 m. The ground reads 47% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,923 mm of rain a year, 149 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Bönigen, 1.3 km away, governed from Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.
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.
Who governs this land
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra · Bern/Berne · Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli · Bönigen
What the land is exposed to — and what stands against it
What the record remembers
The named places and features the public encyclopedia holds around this land: the recorded memory, not the whole memory.
- Lütschine1.1 km
- Bönigen1.3 km
- Ringgenberg1.6 km
- Jungfrau Park1.9 km
- Ringgenberg railway station2 km
- Burgseeli2.3 km
- Interlaken Air Base2.8 km
- Loucherhorn3 km
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 · observed, measured from satellite or map data · 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 flowpath3.5 km mapped below the parcel— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- observed
This parcel is crossed by Lütschine
- observed
This parcel is within reach of Lombach
- official
This parcel answers to Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli2,535 people
- official
Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli sits in Bern/Berne
- official
Bern/Berne sits in Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- observed
This parcel lives beside Bönigen1.3 km away
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
19 ha inside the boundary
forest and open ground, mixed
47% tree cover
- 2
catchment
its catchment
a sink: a large country drains through it
4 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 · observed, measured from satellite or map data · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.
The forest here has held for a generation.
- recordedThis canopy has held: 57% 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
Independent instruments agree: water stands on this land.
- recordedThe satellite water archive has watched 3.4% of this parcel go seasonally wet since 1984.
- observedA watercourse crosses the parcel itself.
- derived2 separate signals point the same way — this is not one sensor's opinion.
What to doSite anything permanent off the wet ground, and walk the parcel in the rainy season before believing any dry-season visit.
Bears on where anything gets built · high confidence
Strong land, standing on its own.
- derivedThe Land Score reads 55 against a conservation priority of 32.
- 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
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
running toward regeneration
47% tree cover on 1,923 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
53% open ground on a 2.9° average slope.
Keep the ground covered through the dry season; rested pasture and cover crops turn this loop around on gentle slopes.
The edge and the road
access → clearing at the edge → more edge → more access
holding
road 0.1 km, settlement 1.3 km; 0% tree cover lost since 2000.
Decide what the road is for before anything else: a gate, a planted edge and a written access rule are the cheapest interventions on this land.
Reading the place
This 19-hectare parcel near Bönigen, Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district, Oberland administrative region is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside, scoring 55 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that this area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050. Its main strength is that a watercourse runs through the parcel. The first move: design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
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: +1.2 °C mean temperature, -15% rainfall. Exposure rated High.
A watercourse runs through the parcel.
On-site water supports irrigation, livestock, and habitat and can lower water-supply costs — though it may carry buffer or setback rules worth checking.
A mapped river or stream crosses the parcel (Lütschine).
Rainfall is moderate.
Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability.
1,923 mm of rain per year. A watercourse crosses the parcel.
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 3.5 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 574 m, mean slope 3°, 34 m of relief.
The largest buildable bench is 7.28 ha.
This is the piece that decides what fits: a single footprint, its access, and its services all have to land on contiguous ground. Everything beyond it is a second site, not an extension of the first.
43% of the parcel lies at or under 10°; largest contiguous piece 7.28 ha at about 566 m; the ground faces north, away from the sun; read on ~10 m cells from the Terrarium DEM.
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 12 biodiversity records nearby (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
No satellite soil data is available for this parcel.
Soil quality cannot be assessed remotely here, so a ground survey is needed before any agricultural or restoration decision.
The SoilGrids survey returned no data for this location.
Road and town access are close.
Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.
About 0.14 km to the nearest road, 1.3 km to Bönigen.
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.
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra · Bern/Berne · Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli · Bönigen — 2,535 people in the governing unit.
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 reads as adequate to abundant, so the question is less supply than how well the land captures and holds what falls 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 with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.
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 a partial patch that extends the network's reach, scoring 32 out of 100 for conservation priority. It carries standalone value outside the mapped network — worth holding on its own terms. A small, low-footprint operation (fit 63/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.
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 a partial patch — enhancing it extends the network's reach.
A partly-forested parcel works as a stepping stone between the standing habitat around it: thickening its cover and connecting it to the neighbours widens the habitat that species can actually move through. No declared corridor is mapped here — the network in question is the nearby forest itself.
47% tree cover.
A small hospitality operation could carry the conservation here.
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 63/100, drawing on standing forest, water on site. 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
Site a small, low-footprint hospitality operation on the already-worked ground to fund the stewardship.
Once the land is securedA modest operation on the already-worked ground earns the revenue that pays for the restoration and the guardians, without spending the habitat it depends on.
Confirm on the ground · Model the operation at a size the land can carry, keep it off the habitat, and confirm the zoning and any sustainable-tourism certification locally.
- 04
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 1.2°C warmer than today's, with 15% less 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
Lütschine · Lombach · Saxetbach · Traubach
Soil · 0–30 cm
Source unavailable for this parcel.
Terrain & cover
Siting
Measured on ~10.0 m cells across 1,854 points of elevation. Screening geometry from open terrain data — confirm on the ground before siting anything.
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
Ecology
Mecostethus parapleurus · Podiceps cristatus · Viburnum opulus · Carduelis carduelis
Pressure
Forest history · since 2000
Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11
Future · the horizons the engine has read
Now
- Mean temperature
- 10.8 °C
- Rain, latest year (2024)
- 1,875 mm
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 1
- Longest dry spell
- 16 days
- Mean elevation
- 574 m
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 1,923 mm is the long mean; single years swing around it.
2050
- Temperature shift
- +1.2 °C+0.7 to +1.2 °C across 4 models
- Rainfall shift
- -15 %-15 to +2 % across 4 models
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 6 (+5)
- Longest dry spell
- 22 days (+6)
- Exposure
- High — a hard projected shift — plan around it
- Resilience reading
- 51 / 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
38 / 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 · Ecolodge / retreat (36) · Regenerative agroforestry estate (33)
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 (63/100) 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
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.
- 02
Commission a ground soil survey before any agricultural or restoration decision.
Before committingSatellites cannot read soil biology, structure, or below-ground carbon — the very things that decide what will grow — and no survey data is available here.
Confirm on the ground · Take samples across the parcel for a lab test of organic carbon, texture, and pH, and dig a pit to read the profile and rooting depth.
- 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
Walk the land to scope the regenerative work before committing capital.
First visitThe foundations are present and the upside is real, but sequencing the work well is what realises it.
Confirm on the ground · Read the water, soil, and cover on the ground, then plan the work from the most permanent layer down.
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 · 13 layers→
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
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
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
Per-cell slope and aspect (Horn), buildable share, largest contiguous bench
Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)
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: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach, osm adaptation, the heritage record, the soil survey, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the population grid, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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