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Shaded-relief view of the land around Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont, the parcel boundary drawn in gold

100 ha inside the gold line

500 m

Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont

100 ha · 45.518, 7.474 · Italy

72out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Worth restoring — and worth the patience.

80th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 48 conservation priority

Water: 91
Soil: 93
Ecology: 50
Climate: 53
Pressure: 66

9 of 13 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, worldbank_wgi…

The reading in full

This 100-hectare parcel near Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 72 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: Rainfall has been declining over the past two decades. Water planning should target the drier conditions ahead, not today's averages; storage and drought-tolerant choices matter more here. The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk. Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides. 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: The soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration. Carbon-rich soil holds water and nutrients well, supports higher yields and faster regrowth, and may qualify for soil-carbon programs. 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. 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 parcel sits near protected land. Proximity to protected areas raises conservation value and can open eligibility for connectivity or buffer programs, but may also bring land-use restrictions.

The wider readings: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. 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. The parcel is relatively remote. Distance from roads and towns means lower encroachment pressure and more privacy, but higher transport and operating costs.

What the land is telling us: The land reads as holding rather than actively regenerating: the standing cover is intact, but the water or vegetation signal is under strain, so the trajectory turns on how the coming dry years are managed. 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 the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont — Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont — Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 · ESA / Copernicus

The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.

The verdict

72out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Worth restoring — and worth the patience.

Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont

ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor

80th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 48 conservation priority

Five readings

Water91

Soil93

Ecology50

Climate53

Pressure66

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

80thpercentile

all readings worldwide · against 100 readings

Coverage

100%

weight read

9 of 13 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the governance record +1.

Where the capital goes

48/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 76

Best-fit model

Ecolodge / retreat

69 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area

100ha

Elevation

1,652m

1,397–1,865 m

Slope

15.9°

Buildable bench

not read

Forest cover

69%

Canopy height

not read

Rainfall

1,735mm/yr

-12% over 20 yr

Warming to 2050

+1.6°C

rain -13%

Soil carbon

62.0g/kg

pH 6.0

Nearest road

1.1km

Species records

2records

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 1,735 mm of rain falls here in a year. 69% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is steep (15.9° on average), so every bare patch sheds water and soil fast. 296 mapped watercourses cross the land (Torrente di Bardoney, Torrente Forzo). The nearest road is 1.1 km off, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.6 °C and -13% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holding — almost no tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall down 12% over twenty years.

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

100 hectares at Ronco Canavese of strongly rising land around 1,652 m. The ground reads 69% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,735 mm of rain a year, 296 traced watercourses.

Its vocationinhabit carefully

Fund conservation through low-footprint hospitality. Accessible and scenic beside standing habitat, with a hospitality fit of 76/100, this land can carry a small, low-footprint operation whose revenue funds the conservation.

1,652 m elevation69% forest15.9° slope1,735 mm rain/yrFrontier tier — outside the mapped network

Its trajectoryholding, but drying— the canopy has held while the rain record fell -11.5%.

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

The forest here has held for a generation.

recordedThis canopy has held: 28% cover in 2000, 0.2% 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 water here is thinning.

observedThe twenty-year rain record moved -11.5% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
estimatedDry spells head toward ~25 days by 2050 — water security, storage, and drought-tolerant planting become the design constraints here.

What to doPrice water storage into any plan and verify the dry-season sources on the ground.

Bears on any plan that needs water · medium confidence

Strong land, standing on its own.

derivedThe Land Score reads 72 against a conservation priority of 48.
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

For its kind of land, its soil stands out.

derivedAgainst 100 readings of like land (all readings worldwide), this parcel's soil ranks in the top 9%.
derivedAn unusual strength is the thing to protect first — it is what its peers do not have.

What to doWhatever plan is made, it should be one that cannot spend this soil down.

Bears on what this land is, relative to its kind · medium confidence

Height is this land's climate insurance.

observedAt 1,652 m, today's mean sits at 3.8°C.
estimatedThe +1.6°C projected by 2050 arrives on that cool baseline — roughly 0 hot days a year here while lowland sites cross heat thresholds this parcel never reaches.
derivedAs the lowlands warm, land that stays temperate does double work: livable for people, refuge for species moving uphill.

What to doTreat elevation as an appreciating part of the asset — and design for the species arriving from below, not only the ones here now.

Bears on the decades ahead · 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

69% tree cover on 1,735 mm of rain; 0.2% of the tree cover lost since 2000, last in 2002.

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

Open ground and soil

bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil

running toward degradation

31% open ground on a 15.9° average slope.

Cover the steep open ground first — contour planting or rested pasture — before the soil that is left goes downhill.

The edge and the road

access → clearing at the edge → more edge → more access

holding

road 1.1 km; 0.2% tree cover lost since 2000.

Distance is doing the work here; keep it, and do not build the road that would end it.

Reading the place

This 100-hectare parcel near Ronco Canavese, Turin, Piedmont is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside, scoring 72 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that rainfall has been declining over the past two decades. Its main strength is that the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration. The first move: build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.

Riskmedium confidence

Rainfall has been declining over the past two decades.

Water planning should target the drier conditions ahead, not today's averages; storage and drought-tolerant choices matter more here.

Annual rainfall is down about 11% over 20 years (linear trend, 2004–2024).

Riskhigh confidence

The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk.

Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides.

Mean slope 16°, with 468 m of elevation change across the parcel.

Riskmedium confidence

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: +1.6 °C mean temperature, -13% rainfall. Exposure rated High.

Opportunitymedium confidence

The soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.

Carbon-rich soil holds water and nutrients well, supports higher yields and faster regrowth, and may qualify for soil-carbon programs.

62 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, loam texture, pH 6 (ISRIC SoilGrids).

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.

69% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping). Naturalness is not verified.

Opportunityhigh confidence

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 (Torrente di Bardoney).

Opportunityhigh confidence

The parcel sits near protected land.

Proximity to protected areas raises conservation value and can open eligibility for connectivity or buffer programs, but may also bring land-use restrictions.

Nearest protected area: Prascondù.

Waterhigh confidence

Rainfall is moderate.

Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability.

1,735 mm of rain per year. A watercourse crosses the parcel.

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

Accesshigh confidence

The parcel is relatively remote.

Distance from roads and towns means lower encroachment pressure and more privacy, but higher transport and operating costs.

About 1.12 km to the nearest road.

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

The land reads as holding rather than actively regenerating: the standing cover is intact, but the water or vegetation signal is under strain, so the trajectory turns on how the coming dry years are managed.

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 the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

48Conservation 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 48 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 76/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.

76/100

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.

69% tree cover.

Hospitalitymedium confidence

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 76/100, drawing on standing forest, protected land alongside, relief for views. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.

Capital moves

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.
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.
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.
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.

How it compares

80thpercentile · all readings worldwide

Ranked against 100 readings · all readings so far

Stronger land than 80% of all 100 readings logged so far. Soil is its strongest signal here (91st percentile), water its weakest (39th).

Percentile by reading · higher is better land

Water

39th

Soil

91st

Ecology

41st

Climate

51st

Low pressure

48th

Percentiles compare this reading against the growing corpus of public TERRA readings in like land — not all land on Earth. They sharpen as the wall grows.

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

3.8°C

Mean temp

+1.6°C

2050 Δ temp

-13%

2050 Δ rain

Exposure · High

2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.6°C warmer than today's, with 13% 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

1,735mm/yr

Rainfall

-11.5%

20-yr trend

On site

To watercourse

Permanent water

0% seasonal

Torrente di Bardoney · Torrente Forzo · Rio Ciaval · Rio Lasin

A watercourse on site and 0% permanent water are both true: the satellite archive counts open water wide enough to see from orbit, and a narrow or tree-covered channel runs below its 30 m pixels.

Soil · 0–30 cm

62.0g/kg

Org. carbon

6.0

38%

Sand

22%

Clay

Loam

Terrain & cover

1,652m

Elevation

15.9°

Mean slope

69%

Forest

Built

Tree cover 69%Grassland 31%

The living surface

What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.

Ecology

Recorded wildlife observations

GBIF · the global species-record archive

Phyteuma betonicifolium · Pimpinella major

Protected nearby · Prascondù

Pressure

1.1km

To road

—km

To settlement

Forest history · since 2000

28%

Tree cover 2000

0.2%

Cover lost

2002

Latest loss

Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11

Best-fit regenerative model

Ecolodge / retreat

69 / 100 fit

Fund conservation through low-footprint hospitality.

Accessible and scenic beside standing habitat, with a hospitality fit of 76/100, this land can carry a small, low-footprint operation whose revenue funds the conservation.

Accessible, scenic land beside standing habitat. A small, low-footprint operation on the worked ground earns the revenue that pays for the restoration.

1,652 m elevation69% forest15.9° slope1,735 mm rain/yrriver on site

Also consider · Upper-watershed research station (59) · Watershed protection (57)

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 (76/100) 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 season
Water, 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 roads and structures to the contour, and get a geotechnical and erosion assessment before any earthworks.
Before committing
Steep ground raises building and access costs and erosion risk; the terrain sets the layout, not the other way round.
Confirm on the ground · Have a geotechnical engineer assess slope stability and cut-and-fill on the ground before a road line is committed.
03
Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
First year
The 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.
04
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.
05
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.

Questions to sit with

At the end of the dry season, where does water still hold on this land — and what would keep it there a month longer?
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 · 9 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)

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

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 governance record, the thermal read — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.

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