Land Intelligence Report

San Felipe, Guainía, RAP Amazonía

102 ha · 1.8663, -67.2081 · Land worth holding. Steward it.

Terrain · shaded relief — San Felipe, Guainía, RAP Amazonía
500 m
Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — San Felipe, Guainía, RAP Amazonía
500 m
Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 · ESA / Copernicus

The reading in full

This 102-hectare parcel near San Felipe, Guainía, RAP Amazonía is ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair. It scores 76 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: Hazard screening rates this district high for river flood, urban flood. A high screening class means the hazard must be taken into account in planning and design — it is a division-scale flag from mixed-vintage hazard sets, not a site assessment. Commission local hazard mapping before siting anything permanent. The district screens material for river flood, urban flood, extreme heat, wildfire, with nothing mapped against them within reach. A hazard class is one fact; the same class with no fire station, flood works, water works, or emergency post mapped within reach is another — an adaptation gap. The works may exist unmapped, so confirm on the ground; but plan as if the response would have to be the parcel's own.

Where the upside lies: Most of the parcel reads as tree cover. Tree cover can carry real conservation and carbon value, but satellite land-cover cannot tell natural forest from a monoculture plantation (oil palm, rubber, teak). Confirm which it is before assuming biodiversity or carbon value.

The wider readings: Models project a warmer and wetter climate here by 2050. Expect a warmer and wetter future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range. Rainfall is very high. Abundant water supports productive growth but raises the risk of flooding, waterlogging, and nutrient leaching, so drainage and slope matter. 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 100.48 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. Soil organic carbon is moderate. The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use. 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 ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair. Its clearest strength to build from is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover.

Physical risk and adaptation

HazardCategoryScreening classAdaptation mappedReading
River floodacute · climate-relatedhighnothing mapped within reachno flood works mapped within 10 km · parcel unlikely: seasonal water 0% of the parcel · mean slope 1.5°exposed
Urban floodacute · climate-relatedhighnothing mapped within reachno flood works mapped within 10 km · parcel unlikely: seasonal water 0% of the parcel · mean slope 1.5°exposed
Coastal floodacute · climate-relatedno datanothing mapped within reachno coastal or flood works mapped within 10 kmquiet
Earthquakegeophysical · not climate-relatedvery lownothing mapped within reachno hospital or emergency post mapped within 25 kmquiet
Landslideacute · climate-relatedlownothing mapped within reachno hospital or emergency post mapped within 25 kmquiet
Tsunamigeophysical · not climate-relatedno datanothing mapped within reachno coastal or flood works mapped within 10 kmquiet
Volcanogeophysical · not climate-relatedno datanothing mapped within reachno hospital or emergency post mapped within 25 kmquiet
Cycloneacute · climate-relatedvery lownothing mapped within reachno hospital or emergency post mapped within 25 kmquiet
Water scarcitychronic · climate-relatedvery lownothing mapped within reachno water works or reservoir mapped within 15 kmquiet
Extreme heatchronic · climate-relatedmediumnothing mapped within reachno water works or hospital mapped within 25 kmexposed
Wildfireacute · climate-relatedmediumnothing mapped within reachno fire station mapped within 25 kmexposed
Ground at or below 10 m
0 ha
Under high classes
102 ha · 2 classes
Fire response
not read
Emergency response
not read

Exposure as quantities, never as money: response minutes assume 40 km/h on rural roads, straight-line distance. The district class covers the whole parcel, so hectares under a high class are the parcel's own area.

Screening classes at district scale (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, hazard sets ~2015–2020, Guainia, Colombia). Adaptation is mapped presence in OpenStreetMap within graded radii — the condition and design standard of the works are not read.A reading of “buffered” is not a reading of “safe”.

The verdict

76out of 100 · Land ScoreAnchor

Land worth holding. Steward it.

San Felipe, Guainía, RAP Amazonía

Frontier tier · 40 conservation priority

Five readings

Water99strong
Soil59fair
Ecology55fair
Climate68strong
Pressure100strong

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

18 of 26 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach +5.

Where the capital goes

40/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 52

Best-fit model

Corridor anchor reserve

48 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area
102ha
Elevation
123m
115–134 m
Slope
1.5°
Buildable bench
100.48ha
99% of the land under 10° slope
Forest cover
100%
Canopy height
not read
Rainfall
3,577mm/yr
+6% over 20 yr
Warming to 2050
+1.2°C
rain +2%
Soil carbon
34.1g/kg
pH 4.6
Nearest road
not read
Species records
0records
GBIF, the global species archive

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 3,577 mm of rain falls here in a year. 100% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (1.5° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 2 mapped watercourses cross the land, and what leaves it travels 4 km downstream before the mapped path ends. By 2050 the models expect +1.2 °C and +2% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holdingthe canopy record shows no meaningful loss in a generation.

Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 100% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 40, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open. To help: keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.

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

102 hectares at San Felipe of gentle land around 123 m. The ground reads 100% under canopy. Water shapes it — 3,577 mm of rain a year, 2 traced watercourses.

Its vocationprotect

Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 100% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 40, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.

123 m elevation100% forest1.5° slope3,577 mm rain/yrFrontier tier — outside the mapped network
Its trajectoryholdingthe canopy record shows no meaningful loss in a generation.

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.

Drains to this point
not read
Mapped path below
4.4 km
Source
MERIT-Hydro
a global hydrography grid, ~90 m

Screening hydrography, never a legal drainage determination.

Who governs this land

Colombia · Guainía · San Felipe

Population
2,050
of the local governing unit

What the land is exposed to — and what stands against it

4 adaptation gaps: river flood, urban flood, extreme heat, wildfire screen material here with nothing mapped against them within reach.

  • River floodexposedscreens highno flood works mapped within 10 km · parcel unlikely: seasonal water 0% of the parcel · mean slope 1.5°
  • Urban floodexposedscreens highno flood works mapped within 10 km · parcel unlikely: seasonal water 0% of the parcel · mean slope 1.5°
  • Extreme heatexposedscreens mediumno water works or hospital mapped within 25 km
  • Wildfireexposedscreens mediumno fire station mapped within 25 km
Ground at or below 10 m
0 ha
Under high classes
102 ha · 2 classes
Fire response
not read
Emergency response
not read

Exposure as quantities, never as money: response minutes assume 40 km/h on rural roads, straight-line distance. The district class covers the whole parcel, so hectares under a high class are the parcel's own area.

Fire station
not read
Emergency post
not read
Flood / coastal works
not read
Water works
not read

Screening classes at district scale (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, hazard sets ~2015–2020) read beside what OpenStreetMap has mapped within graded radii. Presence, not effectiveness: the condition of a levee or the crew of a fire station is not read. “Buffered” is not “safe”; “not read” is honest, not zero.

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 watershedscreening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)

  • estimated

    This parcel sends its water down Downstream flowpath4.4 km mapped below the parcelscreening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)

  • official

    This parcel answers to Guainía2,050 people

  • official

    Guainía sits in Colombia

  • estimated

    This parcel is screened as exposed to River floodhigh (screening)screening class at admin-division scale

  • estimated

    This parcel is screened as exposed to Urban floodhigh (screening)screening class at admin-division scale

  • estimated

    This parcel is screened as exposed to Extreme heatmedium (screening)screening class at admin-division scale

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. 1

    parcel

    102 ha inside the boundary

    a standing block of forest

    100% tree cover

  2. 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 · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page · estimated, from a model, not a measurement.

The forest here has held for a generation.

  1. recordedThis canopy has held: 99% 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 calm here is partly unmeasured.

  1. derivedThe pressure reading is near-perfect, but 3 of its instruments did not answer (roads, settlements, or fire).
  2. derivedQuiet data is not proven quiet land — near a town, an unread road is more often a data gap than true remoteness.

What to doVerify access and neighbours on the ground before banking the calm.

Bears on how much to trust the calm · medium confidence

Strong land, standing on its own.

  1. derivedThe Land Score reads 76 against a conservation priority of 40.
  2. 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

Heat is the trend to plan against here.

  1. estimatedHot days head from ~28 to ~47 a year by 2050.
  2. derivedThat reshapes what can be farmed, when work happens outdoors, and what shade and water infrastructure cost.

What to doShade, water, and heat-tolerant species are not upgrades here — they are the baseline design.

Bears on any plan with people or crops outdoors · 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

100% tree cover on 3,577 mm of rain; 0% of the tree cover lost since 2000.

Keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.

Reading the place

This 102-hectare parcel near San Felipe, Guainía, RAP Amazonía is ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair, scoring 76 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that hazard screening rates this district high for river flood, urban flood. Its main strength is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover. The first move: cut and maintain firebreaks along the boundary and site water storage for suppression before the first dry season.

Riskmedium confidence

Hazard screening rates this district high for river flood, urban flood.

A high screening class means the hazard must be taken into account in planning and design — it is a division-scale flag from mixed-vintage hazard sets, not a site assessment. Commission local hazard mapping before siting anything permanent.

2 of 11 screened hazards rate high in Guainia, Colombia (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, screening-grade).

Riskmedium confidence

The district screens material for river flood, urban flood, extreme heat, wildfire, with nothing mapped against them within reach.

A hazard class is one fact; the same class with no fire station, flood works, water works, or emergency post mapped within reach is another — an adaptation gap. The works may exist unmapped, so confirm on the ground; but plan as if the response would have to be the parcel's own.

River flood: no flood works mapped within 10 km · parcel unlikely: seasonal water 0% of the parcel · mean slope 1.5°; Urban flood: no flood works mapped within 10 km · parcel unlikely: seasonal water 0% of the parcel · mean slope 1.5°; Extreme heat: no water works or hospital mapped within 25 km; Wildfire: no fire station mapped within 25 km (ThinkHazard screen; OpenStreetMap presence, not effectiveness).

Opportunitylow confidence

Most of the parcel reads as tree cover.

Tree cover can carry real conservation and carbon value, but satellite land-cover cannot tell natural forest from a monoculture plantation (oil palm, rubber, teak). Confirm which it is before assuming biodiversity or carbon value.

100% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping). Naturalness is not verified.

Climatemedium confidence

Models project a warmer and wetter climate here by 2050.

Expect a warmer and wetter future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range.

Projected change by 2050: +1.2 °C mean temperature, +2% rainfall. Exposure rated Moderate.

Waterhigh confidence

Rainfall is very high.

Abundant water supports productive growth but raises the risk of flooding, waterlogging, and nutrient leaching, so drainage and slope matter.

3,577 mm of rain per year. Nearest mapped watercourse is about 3.03 km away.

Watermedium confidence

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 4.4 km downstream of it (MERIT-Hydro screening hydrography).

Terrainhigh confidence

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 123 m, mean slope 2°, 19 m of relief.

Terrainhigh confidence

The largest buildable bench is 100.48 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.

99% of the parcel lies at or under 10°; largest contiguous piece 100.48 ha at about 123 m; read on ~10 m cells from the Terrarium DEM.

Biodiversitylow confidence

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 0 biodiversity records nearby (GBIF, the global species-record archive).

Soilmedium confidence

Soil organic carbon is moderate.

The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use.

34.1 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, sandy loam texture, pH 4.6 (ISRIC SoilGrids).

Accesslow confidence

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.

Colombia · Guainía · San Felipe — 2,050 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 ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair. Its clearest strength to build from is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

40Conservation priority
FrontierCore habitat

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 intact habitat to secure, scoring 40 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 52/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.

52/100
Hospitality fit

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.

Conservationmedium confidence

This reads as intact habitat — the priority is to secure it, not rebuild it.

Standing natural forest is far cheaper to protect than to restore, and holding it inside a corridor keeps the connection open. Securing tenure and legal protection is where capital does the most here.

100% tree cover.

Hospitalitylow confidence

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 52/100, drawing on standing forest. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.

Capital moves

  1. 01

    Secure this land first — through purchase, or a conservation easement that survives a change of owner.

    Before committing

    Intact corridor habitat holds its value only while it stays intact; locking in protection before the land turns over is the move capital cannot undo.

    Confirm on the ground · Confirm title and boundaries, then scope the conservation-easement and payment-for-protection instruments available in this jurisdiction.

  2. 02

    Protect the standing forest and remove the active threats to it.

    First visit

    The habitat is already here; the work is to keep it — stopping clearing, fire, and hunting pressure holds far more value than any planting would add.

    Confirm on the ground · Walk the boundary for signs of encroachment, fire, and hunting; agree the protection terms with neighbours who share the edge.

  3. 03

    Site a small, low-footprint hospitality operation on the already-worked ground to fund the stewardship.

    Once the land is secured

    A 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.

  4. 04

    Set a wildlife baseline and re-read it — camera traps on the parcel's connecting edges.

    Ongoing

    Funders 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, 20042024 · mm

25.4°C
Mean temp
+1.2°C
2050 Δ temp
+2%
2050 Δ rain

Exposure · Moderate

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 2% 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

3,577mm/yr
Rainfall
+5.9%
20-yr trend
3.0km
To watercourse

Soil · 0–30 cm

34.1g/kg
Org. carbon
4.6
pH
63%
Sand
17%
Clay

Sandy loam

Terrain & cover

123m
Elevation
1.5°
Mean slope
100%
Forest
0%
Built
Tree cover 100%

Siting

100.48ha
Largest bench
contiguous, at ~123 m
99%
Buildable
at or under 10°
7.1°
Steep end
90th percentile
Faces
no dominant aspect

Measured on ~10.0 m cells across 10,228 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

0
Recorded wildlife observations
GBIF · the global species-record archive

Pressure

km
To road
km
To settlement

Deforestation

0
Recent alerts
0ha
Area disturbed

INPE DETER (Amazônia)

Forest history · since 2000

99%
Tree cover 2000
0.0%
Cover lost

Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11

Future · the horizons the engine has read

Now

Mean temperature
25.4 °C
Rain, latest year (2024)
3,287 mm
Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
28
Longest dry spell
5 days
Mean elevation
123 m

The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 3,577 mm is the long mean; single years swing around it.

2050

Temperature shift
+1.2 °C+1.1 to +1.4 °C across 4 models
Rainfall shift
+2 %-2 to +2 % across 4 models
Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
47 (+19)
Longest dry spell
3 days (-2)
Exposure
Moderatea real but workable projected shift
Resilience reading
68 / 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

Corridor anchor reserve

48 / 100 fit

Protect the keystone; hold the connection open.

With 100% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 40, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.

High-value habitat inside the connectivity network. The move is to secure it — purchase or easement — so the corridor it anchors stays unbroken.

123 m elevation100% forest1.5° slope3,577 mm rain/yr

Also consider · Watershed protection (34) · Ecolodge / retreat (22)

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 (52/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match.

What to do

  1. 01

    Cut and maintain firebreaks along the boundary and site water storage for suppression before the first dry season.

    Before the first dry season

    The district screens material for wildfire and no fire station is mapped within reach — the first response would have to be the parcel's own.

    Confirm on the ground · Walk the boundary with a local fire brigade or forestry officer to set the break lines; confirm the storage point can be reached by a tanker.

  2. 02

    Commission a flood-line survey before siting anything permanent on the low ground.

    Before committing

    The district screens material for river or urban flood and no flood works are mapped within 10 km; the parcel's own low ground is where that lands.

    Confirm on the ground · Have a hydrologist or the municipal engineer mark the recorded flood line on the parcel; ask long-time neighbours where the water reached in the worst year they remember.

  3. 03

    Ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.

    First visit

    Satellite land-cover cannot separate natural forest from a monoculture plantation, and the difference decides the conservation and carbon value.

    Confirm on the ground · Walk the stand: one species in rows is plantation; mixed ages and species with natural regeneration is forest. A botanist can confirm.

  4. 04

    Carry out a field biodiversity survey to see what the records miss.

    First year

    A 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.

  5. 05

    Visit the land to confirm the reading and protect what already works.

    First visit

    The core systems read as sound; the priority is to keep them that way and avoid degrading them.

    Confirm on the ground · Walk the parcel with the reading in hand and note where the ground agrees and disagrees with it.

Questions to sit with

  • Standing under the canopy, is it one species or many — and which parts would you protect rather than replant?
  • 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 · 18 layers
Water, roads & protected areas — OpenStreetMap

Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)

vector · live
ODbL 1.0
Biodiversity — GBIF

Occurrence records (count + top species)

point · live
Mixed CC0 / CC-BY / CC-BY-NC (per dataset)
Adaptation layer — OpenStreetMap

Nearest fire station, emergency post, flood/coastal defence, water works, monitoring station, coastline — mapped presence, not effectiveness

feature · live
ODbL 1.0
Heritage presence — public record

Recorded historic/heritage features within 10 km — generalized to counts, classes and distance bands; never coordinates

landscape (10 km) · live
ODbL 1.0
Place memory — Wikipedia

Named places and features of the surrounding landscape (titles + distances)

article · live
CC BY-SA 4.0 (titles/facts)
Amazon deforestation — INPE DETER

DETER-Amazônia change polygons

~250 m · rolling
INPE open data
Place — OpenStreetMap / Nominatim

Nominatim reverse geocode

settlement · live
ODbL 1.0
Terrain — AWS Terrarium (Mapzen)

Terrarium elevation tiles

~10 m (z12) · 2017
Open (attribution)
Climate — Open-Meteo

Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050

~9 km · 2004–2024 / 2045–2049
CC-BY 4.0 (data); non-commercial API tier
Soil — ISRIC SoilGrids v2

SoilGrids v2.0 (SOC, pH, sand, clay; 0–30 cm)

250 m · 2020
CC-BY 4.0
Land cover — ESA WorldCover

WorldCover 2021 v200

10 m · 2021
CC-BY 4.0 (commercial promotion: notify due@esa.int)
Surface water — JRC Global Surface Water

Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality

30 m · 1984–2021
Copernicus / open (attribution)
Forest loss — Hansen Global Forest Change

Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)

~30 m · 2000–2023
CC-BY 4.0
Siting — TERRA geometry on the AWS Terrarium DEM

Per-cell slope and aspect (Horn), buildable share, largest contiguous bench

~10–80 m cells, parcel-dependent (stated per reading) · 2017 (DEM)
Open (attribution)
Watershed — Global Watersheds (MERIT-Hydro)

Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)

~90 m · MERIT-Hydro 2019
Open service, no warranty; engine open source (delineator)
Hazard screening — ThinkHazard!

Multi-hazard classes at admin-division scale (screening-grade; hazard sets ~2015–2020)

admin division · division report (mixed vintages)
GFDRR open (attribution)
Seismicity — USGS earthquake catalog

M ≥ 5 events within 100 km, past 50 years

event · live catalog
US public domain (cite USGS)
Governance — public map record + Wikidata

Administrative hierarchy + structured facts of the governing unit

admin unit · live / Atlas data year 2022
ODbL 1.0 / CC0 / PNUD-UCR publication (attribution)

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, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the population grid, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.

Generated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:37:19 GMT · 19.0s · synthesized by TERRA.

Generated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:37:19 GMT · synthesized by TERRA · Dear Wise Earth.