Public reading
9 ha · 46.431, 6.305 · Switzerland
Real potential, once the plan is clear.
19th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 32 conservation priority
15 of 25 sources answered, each named and dated ↓ · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, osm_reach…
Three things to know
A watercourse lies close to the parcel.
Nearest mapped watercourse is about 0.87 km away (La Dullive).
clear sky
The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it.
The archive's linear trend reads about 28% lower over 20 years (2004–2024) — outside the range the engine treats as dependable.
in fog
Most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
66% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping).
in fog
First move · first dry season
Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
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.
then: Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
One measurement per instrument, each drawn to its own scale. Hover a mark for the reading behind it.
Rain · 21 years
Down 27.8% over twenty years. Open-Meteo.
The ground and its cover
ESA WorldCover. It cannot tell natural forest from plantation.
Elevation & slope
373–393 m across the parcel. AWS terrain tiles.
Climate to 2050
From today's 11.5 °C. Expect is the honest word: this is a projection.
Species records
Log scale. A count this size also measures survey effort, not only life. GBIF.
Access
105 watercourses mapped. OpenStreetMap.
Where the parcel sits between securing it and hosting people on it, and the project that fits it best.
Best-fit model
A community sited on the working matrix.
Standalone conservation value, outside the mapped network.
Drawing the film…
The film
The place, the score, the five pillars and three findings, set over contour lines traced from this parcel’s own elevation. Every figure on screen is this reading’s; the last finding is the one it is least sure of. Nothing in it is generated.
vertical · drawn in your browser from this reading
Go deeper
Everything the instruments read about this land, in its own words: the narrative, the maps, the evidence card by card, the 2050 window, what to do first, an analyst to ask, and all 25 sources, each named and dated.
The reading in full
This 9-hectare parcel near Dully, District de Nyon, Vaud is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 51 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it. A swing this large more often reflects a data artifact or measurement change than real climate; water planning should wait on local records rather than build on this number. 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. Recorded heritage features stand within 2 km of this parcel. A heritage-bearing landscape raises the likelihood that development here triggers archaeological assessment, and that finds during works must stop them. That is a planning fact, not a burden — and locations are deliberately not shown.
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. A watercourse lies close to the parcel. Nearby surface water improves access to irrigation and supply and adds habitat value, though rights and distance still affect how usable it is.
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 7.85 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. The human fabric around this land is measured, not assumed. Labour, emergencies, schooling, and electricity all run on these distances — they decide what daily life and operations here actually cost. Jurisdiction is part of the parcel. Permits, zoning, water, and roads run through these offices — knowing who governs the land is the first step of every plan that touches it.
What the land is telling us: 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 workable land whose plan must come before the capital. Its clearest strength to build from is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
Dully, District de Nyon, Vaud
19th percentile for like land · 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
all readings worldwide · against 124 readings
Coverage
15 of 25 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach +7.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 59
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 1,342 mm of rain falls here in a year. 66% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.4° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 105 mapped watercourses cross the land (La Dullive, Le Flon de Vincy), and what leaves it travels 7 km downstream before the mapped path ends. A road runs against the boundary, and settlement sits within a kilometre, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.4 °C and -14% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy has held while the rain record fell -27.8%.
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: 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
9 hectares at Dully of gentle land around 388 m. The ground reads 66% under canopy, 3% built. Water shapes it — 1,342 mm of rain a year, 105 traced watercourses. 34,209 people within 5 km, governed from District de Nyon.
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.
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Recorded historic/heritage features within 10 km — generalized to counts, classes and distance bands; never coordinates
Named places and features of the surrounding landscape (titles + distances)
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
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)
Gridded population 2020 (parcel + 5 km ring sums)
M ≥ 5 events within 100 km, past 50 years
Administrative hierarchy + structured facts of the governing unit
Every number above is public, open data — named, dated, and licensed. What TERRA does not publish is the lens: the weights, curves, and verdict thresholds that turn these layers into a Land Score. That judgment is calibrated from land walked on the ground, and it stays proprietary.
Unavailable for this parcel: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach, osm adaptation, the soil survey, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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