An easy-to-use tool providing vital early-stage assessments of large areas without the need for on-the-ground monitoring, equipping organizations with critical habitat data to inform effective management actions.
This product is a powerful geospatial tool to rapidly assess the health and connectivity of habitats. Habitat Insights includes three standardized metrics to track habitat health:
- Land Cover - Monitor how your landscape is changing by analyzing different land cover types at your site over time.
- Habitat Connectivity - Assess the health and resilience of your sites by how well they are connected.
- Vegetation Health - Gain insights into the health and density of vegetation at your site through advanced vegetation analysis.
Habitat Insights offers you the ability to:
- Run rapid assessments of complex, hard-to-reach sites, showing change over time.
- Understand the impact of industrial activity and track performance of mitigation actions.
- Identify new areas for use or management needs e.g. carbon projects or BNG sites.
- Assess project sites or biodiversity hotspots for further investigation with eDNA.
- Standardize habitat assessments across a portfolio of sites.
- View projects and metrics through an interactive navigation in the NatureMetrics Intelligence Platform.
Learn more about this product here or book a call with our team to discuss further here.
What we need from you
In order to begin processing your Habitat Insights, we'll need your site’s geospatial information file. Below you'll find a step by step on how to create this file.
1. Download and install Google Earth Pro.
2. Identify the area you want to draw a polygon around either by using the search bar or zooming in.
3. Click on the “Add polygon” icon.
4. In the popup window, give the New Polygon an appropriate name.
5. Click on the map at the borders of the polygon. Once you have created the polygon, click “OK”.
6. If you wish to edit the polygon, right click on the polygon under “Places” and select “Properties”. To move a border point, click and drag the point highlighted blue. Hit “Delete” to remove the point highlighted blue. Click to add a new point joined to the blue point.
7. Right click on the name under “Places” and select “Save Place As” and save somewhere suitable with the format .kmz
8. You're all done! Send this file to your NatureMetrics sales team contact and we'll begin processing your Habitat Insights right away.
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