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Shaded-relief view of the land around Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, the parcel boundary drawn in gold

100 ha inside the gold line

500 m

Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste

100 ha · 10.137, -85.793 · Costa Rica

54out of 100 · Land ScoreCultivate

Undecided ground. Decide with it.

33rd percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 41 conservation priority

Water: 100
Soil: 35
Ecology: 31
Climate: 36
Pressure: 56

11 of 15 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 Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 54 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: Dry spells are projected to run about 66 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. A meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000. Long-term loss points to historical or ongoing clearing pressure and a lower conservation baseline; confirm the legal status and whether clearing is still active.

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: The land is projected to see roughly 117 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. Rainfall is high and supports rain-fed use. There is enough water for most crops and forestry with little or no irrigation; dry-season storage still helps. 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 moderate. The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use. Road and town access are close. Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices. Official Costa Rican record places this in Cuajiniquil, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste. National cadastral and administrative data ground the parcel in the legal record — the basis for title, permitting, and tax diligence.

What the land is telling us: The longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 35% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2011. The cover is measurably coming back now — a land recovering, which is a workable base, but the history is the reason the foundational work comes first. 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 workable land whose plan must come before the capital. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste — Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste — 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

54out of 100 · Land ScoreCultivate

Undecided ground. Decide with it.

Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste

ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor

33rd percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 41 conservation priority

Five readings

Water100

Soil35

Ecology31

Climate36

Pressure56

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

33rdpercentile

Tropical humid · Neotropic · against 26 readings · 31st of all 100

Coverage

100%

weight read

11 of 15 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

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

Where the capital goes

41/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 58

Best-fit model

Coastal buffer · blue–green

59 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area

100ha

Elevation

21m

8–39 m

Slope

2.0°

Buildable bench

not read

Forest cover

56%

Canopy height

not read

Rainfall

2,281mm/yr

+43% over 20 yr

Warming to 2050

+1.1°C

rain -20%

Soil carbon

20.9g/kg

pH 6.4

Nearest road

0.4km

Species records

7records

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 2,281 mm of rain falls here in a year. 56% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 35 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río Tabaco, Quebrada Surco de Piedra). A road runs against the boundary, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.1 °C and -20% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holding — 35% of the tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall up 43% over twenty years.

To help: stop the clearing at the streams first: every metre of canopy kept along water holds the loop together.

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 Veintisiete de Abril of gentle land around 21 m. The ground reads 56% under canopy. Water shapes it — 2,281 mm of rain a year, 35 traced watercourses.

Its vocationbuffer

Protect the blue–green edge. Low-lying at 21 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat.

21 m elevation56% forest2.0° slope2,281 mm rain/yrFrontier tier — outside the mapped network

Its trajectoryrecovering— cut after 2000, the cover is returning.

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 · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page · estimated, from a model, not a measurement · official, from a public or state record.

This is a forest coming back, not one that never left.

recordedCut and coming back: 35% went after 2000 (last in 2011), and the cover now reads 56% — the land is regrowing, which means young forest, not old.

What to doProtect the regrowth's momentum: young forest gains value fastest when simply left connected and unburned.

Bears on the land's living value · high confidence

Independent instruments agree: water stands on this land.

observedA watercourse crosses the parcel itself.
observedAnd the rain record has risen 43.4% in twenty years.
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

More water is arriving — and arriving harder.

observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +43.4% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
estimatedThe dry spells are lengthening at the same time (~55 → ~66 days) — more rain is arriving in stronger pulses with longer gaps, not as a gentler year.
derivedNote the disagreement: the observed archive moved +43.4%, while the 2050 model says -20%. Neither cancels the other — the archive is what happened, the model is one projection. Design for the envelope: drainage for the wet record, storage for the dry projection.

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

Abundant water is also a legal shape on this land.

observed35 watercourses are traced on and around this parcel.
officialCosta Rica's Ley Forestal 7575 (art. 33) protects riparian strips — roughly 10–15 m along rivers in rural land, up to 50 m on steep banks and around springs.
derivedMultiply the strips by the watercourses and a material share of the parcel is likely untouchable by law — which is a constraint for building and a gift for conservation.

What to doMap the statutory buffer zones before pricing or siting anything — the buildable area is smaller than the deed.

Bears on how much of the land is actually usable · medium confidence

For its kind of land, its soil is unusually weak.

derivedAgainst 26 readings of like land (Tropical humid · Neotropic), this parcel's soil ranks in the bottom 4%.
derivedAn unusual weakness is rarely bad luck — something specific happened or is happening here that its peers escaped.

What to doMake soil the first diligence question on the ground: find the cause before pricing the land.

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

56% tree cover on 2,281 mm of rain; 35% of the tree cover lost since 2000, last in 2011.

Stop the clearing at the streams first: every metre of canopy kept along water holds the loop together.

Open ground and soil

bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil

holding

44% open ground on a 2° 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

running toward degradation

road 0.4 km; 35% 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 100-hectare parcel near Veintisiete de Abril, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste is workable land whose plan must come before the capital, scoring 54 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that dry spells are projected to run about 66 days by 2050. Its main strength is that a watercourse runs through the parcel. The first move: build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.

Riskmedium confidence

Dry spells are projected to run about 66 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 66 days longer than today's 55-day spell (Open-Meteo daily climate).

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: +1.1 °C mean temperature, -20% rainfall. Exposure rated High.

Riskhigh confidence

A meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000.

Long-term loss points to historical or ongoing clearing pressure and a lower conservation baseline; confirm the legal status and whether clearing is still active.

About 35% of the parcel lost tree cover since 2000, most recently in 2011. It held 62% tree cover in 2000. Source: Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11.

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 (Río Tabaco).

Climatemedium confidence

The land is projected to see roughly 117 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 117 days a year with a daily high of 32 °C or more by the 2050 horizon up from about 104 today (Open-Meteo daily climate).

Waterhigh confidence

Rainfall is high and supports rain-fed use.

There is enough water for most crops and forestry with little or no irrigation; dry-season storage still helps.

2,281 mm of rain per year. A watercourse crosses the parcel. The archive's 20-year trend reads about +43% — a swing that size deserves verification against local records before it informs any plan.

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 21 m, mean slope 2°, 31 m of relief.

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 7 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.

20.9 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, clay texture, pH 6.4 (ISRIC SoilGrids).

Accesshigh confidence

Road and town access are close.

Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.

About 0.42 km to the nearest road.

Accessmedium confidence

Official Costa Rican record places this in Cuajiniquil, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste.

National cadastral and administrative data ground the parcel in the legal record — the basis for title, permitting, and tax diligence.

Jurisdiction: Cuajiniquil, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste. Source: SNIT.

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 longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 35% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2011. The cover is measurably coming back now — a land recovering, which is a workable base, but the history is the reason the foundational work comes first.

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 workable land whose plan must come before the capital. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

41Conservation priority

FrontierStepping stone

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.

Nearest declared corridor: Corredor Biológico Rincón Cacao, about 72 km · Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)

This reads as a partial patch that extends the network's reach, scoring 41 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 58/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.

58/100

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.

Corridorlow confidence

The nearest declared corridor is the Corredor Biológico Rincón Cacao, about 72 km away (screening).

The parcel reads as outside the mapped network, so its connectivity value comes from what it holds and what protected land sits beside it rather than a corridor mandate. That corridor links Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja, Parque Nacional Guanacaste (sector Cacao), Parque Nacional Santa Rosa.

Nearest PNCB screening extent ~72 km. Extents are approximate — confirm against SINAC/PNCB.

Conservationmedium confidence

This reads as a partial patch — enhancing it extends the network's reach.

A partly-forested parcel beside the corridor works as a stepping stone: thickening its cover and connecting it to the neighbours widens the habitat that species can actually move through.

56% tree cover, 35% cleared since 2000.

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 58/100, 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 committing
Restoration 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 with a local lawyer and pull the cadastral record; check eligibility for FONAFIFO's PSA payment (Pago por Servicios Ambientales — Costa Rica pays landowners to keep or restore forest) for reforestation or regeneration on the parcel.
02
Thicken cover along the parcel's edges and watercourses to widen what species can move through.
First year
As 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 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 check the Certificado de Sostenibilidad Turística (CST) and local zoning before designing anything.
04
Set a connectivity baseline and re-read it — camera traps aimed at the movement the corridor was declared to carry.
Ongoing
Funders and partners judge a corridor by whether wildlife actually moves through 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, aimed at the connectivity this corridor was declared for — dry-forest connectivity binding Rincón de la Vieja to the Cacao volcano and the lowland forests of Santa Rosa, part of the sea-to-summit ACG.

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. Corridor extents are approximate PNCB screening footprints; confirm a parcel against the official SINAC/PNCB record.

How it compares

33rdpercentile · Tropical humid · Neotropic

Ranked against 26 readings · same bioclimate zone

31st percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.

About typical for the 26 readings logged in Tropical humid · Neotropic. Water is its strongest signal here (65th percentile), soil its weakest (4th). Land reads stronger toward the south-east.

Percentile by reading · higher is better land

Water

65th

Soil

4th

Ecology

23rd

Climate

52nd

Low pressure

25th

Landscape · 3 readings within 25 km

·Land reads stronger toward the south-east

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

27.0°C

Mean temp

+1.1°C

2050 Δ temp

-20%

2050 Δ rain

Exposure · High

2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.1°C warmer than today's, with 20% 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

2,281mm/yr

Rainfall

+43.4%

20-yr trend

On site

To watercourse

Río Tabaco · Quebrada Surco de Piedra · Quebrada Barrosa · Río Pilas

Soil · 0–30 cm

20.9g/kg

Org. carbon

6.4

27%

Sand

40%

Clay

Terrain & cover

21m

Elevation

2.0°

Mean slope

56%

Forest

Built

Tree cover 56%Grassland 43%Built-up 1%

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

Smilisca baudinii · Heliomaster constantii · Polioptila albiloris · Plumeria rubra

Pressure

0.4km

To road

—km

To settlement

Forest history · since 2000

62%

Tree cover 2000

35.0%

Cover lost

2011

Latest loss

Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11

Record & context

What the state and its institutions say about this ground.

Costa Rica ecological corridor

Nearby

Corridor

~72 km away

Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)

Conservation area

Corredor Biológico Rincón Cacao

Dry-forest connectivity binding Rincón de la Vieja to the Cacao volcano and the lowland forests of Santa Rosa, part of the sea-to-summit ACG.

Connects · Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja · Parque Nacional Guanacaste (sector Cacao) · Parque Nacional Santa Rosa

PNCB / SINAC — Corredores Biológicos (screening reference) · approximate screening extent — confirm against the official SINAC / PNCB record

See the corridor network →

Costa Rica land record

Cuajiniquil, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste

Jurisdiction

SNIT Costa Rica (IGN / IDECORI) · official national data — verify title & permits locally

Best-fit regenerative model

Coastal buffer · blue–green

59 / 100 fit

Protect the blue–green edge.

Low-lying at 21 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat.

Low-lying coastal or wetland ground where mangrove, marsh, and dry forest meet the sea. Protect and restore the buffer — blue carbon, storm defence, nursery habitat.

21 m elevation56% forest2.0° slope2,281 mm rain/yrcorridor ~72 km

Also consider · Regenerative agroforestry estate (39) · Watershed protection (35)

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 (58/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match. Two theses share this ground: this lens reads its low wet edge — the buffer to restore; the deployment lens reads its standing patches — the stepping stones. One parcel holds both, so walk it to see which dominates, and let the first money follow that.

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 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.
03
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.
04
Confirm soil and water on the ground, then design to what the land can carry.
First visit
The land is workable, but the plan has to be built to its limits rather than around a hoped-for use.
Confirm on the ground · Ground-truth the key constraints before committing to a use, then size the plan to them.

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 · 11 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)

Costa Rica territorial record — SNIT

Administrative units, cadastral parcels, agrological land-capability, protected areas, Holdridge life zones (WFS)

vector (1:5 000 base) · national SDI (rolling)

SNIT Condiciones Generales de Uso (attribution)

Ecological corridors — PNCB / SINAC (Costa Rica)

Declared biological corridors (bundled screening reference of official corridors; approximate extents — confirm against SINAC/PNCB)

screening extent · PNCB (rolling)

Public programme (SINAC); reference compiled for screening

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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