How tall is the vegetation on this land, and where is there almost none? Height separates grass and scrub from young trees and forest more directly than tree cover alone. The analysis reads Meta and WRI’s canopy height map at its native resolution and groups the property into low (under 1 m), intermediate (1 to 3 m) and tall canopy (3 m and up).
Check land against the height part of a forest definition, find open land for ARR, and describe the starting vegetation for a baseline.
Take outlines of low-canopy areas, filtered to practical sizes, into visit and plot planning.
See a site’s vegetation structure in metres, not only as tree cover percentages.
A property boundary as a polygon, and these settings, which you can change before each run.
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Valid heights below this boundary are classified as low canopy. | 1 | 0–96 |
| Valid heights at or above this boundary are classified as tall canopy. | 3 | 0–96 |
| Minimum contiguous candidate field-work area in hectares. | 0.1 | 0.01 or more |
| Minimum practical candidate width in meters. | 10 | 1 or more |
| Largest enclosed hole to fill in a candidate area, in square meters. | 100 | 0 or more |
Run it at pre-feasibility to see where open land sits, and again at baseline to describe the vegetation a project starts from. Plots and field measurements remain the evidence; the analysis tells you where to put them.
Not on its own. It screens the height trees reach today. Forest definitions under the UN climate rules combine a minimum crown cover (10% to 30%), a minimum height trees can reach at maturity (2 to 5 m) and a minimum area (0.05 to 1 ha), and young stands can count. Set the tall-canopy boundary to your country’s height and read the result beside tree cover and the land’s history.
The map is built from imagery taken between 2017 and 2020. For change since then, use forest cover loss, degraded land mapping on newer imagery, or a field visit.
The map layer shows the same data for looking. The analysis measures it inside your boundary, groups it with your thresholds and saves the outlines on the property, so you can compare properties and take the outlines to the field.
A property boundary as a polygon, drawn on the map or imported from a KML, shapefile or GeoJSON file. The result is saved on the property, beside its other records and maps.
Tell us about the properties you are looking at, and we will set the analyses up in your project.
Bring in the spreadsheets, field forms and maps you already use, and see every site in one place.