Ronco Canavese, Piedmont
Worth restoring, and worth the patience.
56th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 48 conservation priority
9 of 13 sources answered, each named and dated ↓ · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, worldbank_wgi…
The land at a glance
Three things to know
- Strength
A watercourse runs through the parcel.
A mapped river or stream crosses the parcel (Torrente di Bardoney).
clear sky
- Risk
Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint.
781 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.
clear sky
Measure it on the land → - Unknown
Most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
69% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping).
in fog
Settle it on the ground →
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 roads and structures to the contour, and get a geotechnical and erosion assessment before any earthworks.
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What next
Check this reading on the land itself.
The canopy, the soil and the water are read from orbit. TERRA Ground measures them on the land and keeps the reading current.
The record of this land
Read once, 26 Jul 2026. Each new reading of this land is kept here, so it shows how the land moves.
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