00Cover
One dated dossier per year for your project boundary: planting, retention and condition from very high resolution imagery, ready to hand to your verifier.1
01Comparison
The monitoring report is due and the evidence is spread across several places. Planting records from the field team, survival counts from a handful of plots, last year's imagery from a different source, a boundary file that has been edited along the way.
Someone lines them up by hand, and the verifier asks for the comparison against last year in a form you didn't prepare. It works, but each vintage starts over, and the record is only as consistent as whoever assembled it that year.
| Step | Assembled by hand | With the dossier |
|---|---|---|
| Fixing the boundary and baseline | The boundary file and baseline scenario travel between people and get re-checked each cycle. | You send the boundary and describe the baseline scenario once. Every year's layers are cut to that same boundary. |
| Still yoursDefining the baseline scenario. It comes from your project design document, not from us. | ||
| Showing what was planted | Field records and partner reports, with imagery added when someone had budget for it. | A planting and retention layer from change detection against the baseline, dated to the pass, over the whole boundary. |
| Showing it is still there next year | Sample plots and a narrative that this year looks like last year. | The same layer produced the same way each year, so the verifier can lay one vintage over the last. |
| Condition of the cover | Field notes, or a one-off image of a corner of the site. | Spectral condition indices for the period, mapped across the boundary, so a patch that has thinned out is visible. |
| Putting the evidence into the report | Screenshots and tables pasted into annexes, rebuilt each cycle. | A dated monitoring dossier that bundles the layers for the vintage, in a form you attach to the report. |
| Still yoursThe monitoring report itself, and the additionality argument it makes. | ||
| The verifier's visit | The verifier reviews the report and inspects the ground. | The same. The dossier gives them dated imagery evidence to work from. It does not stand in for their visit or their judgement. |
| Still yoursEvery question the verifier asks, and the decision on issuance, which sits with the registry. | ||
02Enclosures
One pack per boundary per vintage year, built to sit next to your monitoring report.
Change detection against your baseline across the project boundary, so planted and retained cover can be shown as mapped area. It serves the "showing what was planted" and "showing it is still there" rows.
Ledger rowShowing what was planted · Showing it is still there next year
A vegetation-health signal for the monitoring period, mapped across the boundary. Read it as a condition signal for the year. Survival counts stay with your plots.
Ledger rowCondition of the cover
Canopy structure change where it can be derived from the imagery. Where the imagery does not support it, the dossier says so and leaves the layer out.
Ledger rowCondition of the cover
A dated document that bundles the year's layers, the imagery dates and the method, one per boundary. It is the piece you attach to the report before it goes to your verifier.
Ledger rowPutting the evidence into the report
03Calendar
You supply the boundary and baseline once. The dossier comes back once a vintage.
Before the monitoring period
Your project boundary as a shapefile or KML, and a description of the baseline scenario from your project design document.
Before the monitoring period
We agree the window inside your monitoring period when a clear-sky pass is most likely, given your planting season.
In the window
A very high resolution multispectral pass over the boundary. Change detection, spectral indices and 3D volumetrics are run against the baseline.
Ahead of verification
The dated dossier and its layers, with time left before you submit to the verifier.
04Limits
Read these before you plan a vintage around the dossier.
05Who it's for
06Questions
No. It supplies monitoring evidence. Issuance decisions rest with the registry and your verifier.
No. It is supporting evidence, not a substitute for a field audit or the verifier's own judgement.
No. It resolves canopy-scale planting and cover change. Sapling counts in early growth stay with your field plots.
Lay the planting and retention layer over your plot data and planting records for the same period. If they disagree, send the difference back and we will go through that year's imagery with you.
The pass can slip inside the period or leave part of the boundary on older imagery. The dossier says which parts.
Yes. Each boundary is monitored and reported separately, with its own dossier.
The dossier is a supporting annex, not a registry submission. What your registry or verifier needs in an evidence pack is worth settling with them and with us at the start.
Your boundary stays yours. Rights to the layers and the imagery behind them are written into the pilot agreement.
By the size and number of boundaries and the periods covered, quoted after we see the boundary. There is no price list on this page.
07 Next step
Share the boundary and your baseline scenario, plus what your verifier expects in the evidence pack. We will scope a pilot from there.