Public reading

Shaded-relief view of the land around Kungursky District, Perm Krai, Volga Federal District, the parcel boundary drawn in gold66 ha inside the gold line
500 m
Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Kungursky District, Perm Krai, Volga Federal District

66 ha · 57.273, 56.040 · Russia

63out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

The capacity is present; the work is regeneration.

61st percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 40 conservation priority

Water
52
Soil
73
Ecology
55
Climate
45
Pressure
100

16 of 25 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, osm_reach…

The reading in full

This 66-hectare parcel near Kungursky District, Perm Krai, Volga Federal District is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 63 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint. Low rainfall limits what can be grown without irrigation and raises the cost and importance of water storage and supply. 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: 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: 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 gently rolling. Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads. The largest buildable bench is 65.81 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. 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: 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 is the binding constraint — rainfall is low, so what the land can carry is set by how water is stored and held 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 most of the parcel reads as tree cover.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Kungursky District, Perm Krai, Volga Federal District
500 m
Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Kungursky District, Perm Krai, Volga Federal District
500 m
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

63out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

The capacity is present; the work is regeneration.

Kungursky District, Perm Krai, Volga Federal District

61st percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 40 conservation priority

Five readings

Water52fair
Soil73strong
Ecology55fair
Climate45fair
Pressure100strong

Weakest: Climate

All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.

Standing

61stpercentile

all readings worldwide · against 100 readings

Coverage

16 of 25 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach +6.

Where the capital goes

40/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 54

Best-fit model

Corridor anchor reserve

48 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area
66ha
Elevation
310m
285–342 m
Slope
3.8°
Buildable bench
65.81ha
99% of the land under 10° slope
Forest cover
100%
Canopy height
not read
Rainfall
690mm/yr
+6% over 20 yr
Warming to 2050
+1.8°C
rain +11%
Soil carbon
38.3g/kg
pH 5.5
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 690 mm of rain falls here in a year. 100% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (3.8° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 3 mapped watercourses cross the land (Бырма, Большая Горевая), and what leaves it travels 8 km downstream before the mapped path ends. By 2050 the models expect +1.8 °C and +11% 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

66 hectares at Kungursky District of gentle land around 310 m. The ground reads 100% under canopy. Water shapes it — 690 mm of rain a year, 3 traced watercourses. Sparsely peopled — 108 neighbours within 5 km, governed from Кунгурский муниципальный округ.

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.

310 m elevation100% forest3.8° slope690 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.

Sources & method · 16 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)
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)
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)
Population — WorldPop

Gridded population 2020 (parcel + 5 km ring sums)

~100 m · 2020
CC-BY 4.0
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, osm adaptation, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.

Generated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:33:37 GMT · 19.1s · synthesized by TERRA.