Why remove roads, buildings and water first?
They are not land you can plant, so leaving them in inflates every area and share. Cutting them out first means the terrain, canopy and degraded land numbers describe the land a project could use.
Preliminary property analysis
How much of this property is land you could work, and what is on it? The analysis first cuts out roads, buildings and water, then runs terrain aspect and slope, canopy height and degraded land on what remains, so every number refers to that land.
Pilot. Its road data covers Panama.
Who it is for
Carbon project developers
Get a first read of a candidate property in one step, on its land area rather than the area on the title.
Land acquisition teams
Compare properties on the same measures before deciding which ones to visit.
Restoration organizations
Start a site plan from the workable area, its slopes and its open land.
What goes in
A property boundary as a polygon. There are no settings: it runs with fixed defaults.
Data sources
- OpenStreetMap roadsWidened by road class; tracks stay as land. The extract covers Panama.
- Google Open Buildings v3Building footprints detected with confidence of 0.75 or more, widened by 10 m.
- JRC Global Surface Water v1.430 m. Pixels where the satellite record since 1984 saw water at least half the time.
What you get
- The property area, the area removed as roads, buildings and water, and the land that remains.
- Aspect and slope, canopy height groups and degraded land, measured on the land that remains.
- Each step’s own result: if one step fails, the others still report.
Limits
- A pilot. Its road data covers Panama only, so properties elsewhere do not run yet.
- Rivers under tree cover can be missed by the water data.
- Settings are fixed. To change a threshold, run the single analysis.
- The limits of the terrain, canopy height and degraded land analyses apply to each step.
Where it fits in your work
Run it as the first look at a candidate property, before a site visit. The land figure feeds an early feasibility estimate; the single analyses go deeper where a question matters.
Questions teams ask
Can I change the settings?
No. It runs each step at a fixed version with its defaults, so properties compare like for like. Run the single analyses to use your own thresholds.
Does it include forest cover history?
No. Run forest cover analysis beside it for tree cover in 2000 and the loss since.
What happens if one step fails?
The others still report, and the failed step says why. The whole run stops only if preparing the property fails (for example, an invalid boundary or no land left after the cut) or every step fails.
Run it on your land
Tell us about the properties you are looking at, and we will set the analyses up in your project.