{
  "name": "EcoIntel Lexicon",
  "description": "Named concepts, processes, metrics and frameworks coined or used across EcoIntel — the Land Health System.",
  "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/",
  "publisher": "Ecological Intelligence Ltd",
  "count": 26,
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "ADP",
      "slug": "adp",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/adp/",
      "category": "framework",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "Assessment, Diagnostics, Practical guidance: the diagnostic layer beneath MRV. ADP platforms answer 'how is this land actually functioning, and what should be done about it?'; MRV platforms answer 'how many verified tonnes of CO₂ can be sold from this project?'.",
      "aliases": [
        "Assessment, Diagnostics, Practical guidance",
        "ADP platform",
        "Assessment Diagnostics Practical guidance"
      ],
      "related": [
        "mrv-platform",
        "land-health-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine",
        "esg-readiness"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Brittleness Score",
      "slug": "brittleness-score",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/brittleness-score/",
      "category": "metric",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "A 1–10 calibration of how aridity-driven a piece of land is. Calibrates expectations: brittle land needs longer rests and recovers more slowly.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "1–10 integer scale (1 = non-brittle / humid, 10 = highly brittle / arid)",
      "aliases": [
        "brittleness",
        "brittleness rating"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine",
        "water-cycle"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Cascade Order",
      "slug": "cascade-order",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/cascade-order/",
      "category": "process",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The recovery sequence BROWN -> BLUE -> GREEN -> BLACK that EcoIntel uses to prevent wasted effort on downstream processes when upstream processes are still broken.",
      "aliases": [
        "BROWN BLUE GREEN BLACK cascade",
        "recovery cascade",
        "diagnostic cascade"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "limiting-indicator",
        "energy-flow",
        "water-cycle"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Comet of Life",
      "slug": "comet-of-life",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/comet-of-life/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "EcoIntel's metaphor for the distinction between leading and lagging indicators of ecosystem health. Lagging indicators are the long tail; leading indicators are the bright head where life is happening now.",
      "aliases": [
        "the comet"
      ],
      "related": [
        "leading-indicator-gap",
        "weather-halo",
        "eye-and-orbit"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Community Dynamics",
      "slug": "community-dynamics",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/community-dynamics/",
      "category": "process",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "How effectively species interact, feed, follow, compete and balance on a piece of land. The fourth of the four ecosystem processes.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "CDI: 0–100 per field",
      "aliases": [
        "CDI",
        "Community Dynamics Index",
        "Biological Communities"
      ],
      "related": [
        "energy-flow",
        "water-cycle",
        "mineral-cycle",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Confidence Label",
      "slug": "confidence-label",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/confidence-label/",
      "category": "metric",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "A Low / Moderate / High annotation on every score and diagnostic conclusion EcoIntel produces. Tells the reader how strongly the underlying data support the number, and how strongly to act on it.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "Low / Moderate / High",
      "aliases": [
        "score confidence",
        "confidence flag"
      ],
      "related": [
        "diagnostic-confidence",
        "land-health-score",
        "limiting-indicator"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Diagnostic Confidence",
      "slug": "diagnostic-confidence",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/diagnostic-confidence/",
      "category": "metric",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "A Low / Moderate / High label on the overall diagnosis EcoIntel produces for a field, distinct from score confidence, which sits on individual numbers.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "Low / Moderate / High",
      "aliases": [
        "diagnosis confidence"
      ],
      "related": [
        "confidence-label",
        "gap-pattern",
        "limiting-indicator",
        "cascade-order"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "EcoDynamics Engine",
      "slug": "ecodynamics-engine",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/ecodynamics-engine/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "EcoIntel's proprietary analytical framework that translates satellite, terrain and climate data into process-based ecosystem diagnostics.",
      "aliases": [
        "EDE",
        "eco-dynamic diagnostic framework"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "energy-flow",
        "water-cycle",
        "mineral-cycle",
        "community-dynamics"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Energy Flow",
      "slug": "energy-flow",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/energy-flow/",
      "category": "process",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "How effectively sunlight is being captured and turned into living tissue across a piece of land. The first of the four ecosystem processes.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "EFI: 0–100 per field",
      "aliases": [
        "EFI",
        "Energy Flow Index",
        "Solar Flow"
      ],
      "related": [
        "water-cycle",
        "mineral-cycle",
        "community-dynamics",
        "ecodynamics-engine",
        "land-health-score"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "ESG-readiness",
      "slug": "esg-readiness",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/esg-readiness/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "A farm's state of preparedness to answer ecologically literate, framework-aligned, defensible questions about its land, from buyers under CSRD scope, lenders, regulators, supply chains, or schemes.",
      "aliases": [
        "ESG readiness",
        "disclosure readiness",
        "ESG-ready farm"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine",
        "weather-corrected-scoring",
        "mrv-platform"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Eye and Orbit",
      "slug": "eye-and-orbit",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/eye-and-orbit/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "EcoIntel's framing for the relationship between two scales of seeing the same leading indicators: what the experienced walker reads on the ground, the satellite reads from orbit, weather-corrected and continuously.",
      "aliases": [
        "eye-and-orbit"
      ],
      "related": [
        "comet-of-life",
        "weather-halo",
        "leading-indicator-gap"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Farming-system Code",
      "slug": "farming-system-code",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/farming-system-code/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "A ten-class label that matches each field or holding to its broader farming context. Matches diagnoses to the relevant prescription pool, so recommendations always fit the system in question.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "One of ten classes",
      "aliases": [
        "farming system class",
        "system code"
      ],
      "related": [
        "gap-pattern",
        "limiting-indicator"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Gap Pattern",
      "slug": "gap-pattern",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/gap-pattern/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The first triage step in EcoIntel's diagnosis. The system classifies each field into one of eight characteristic patterns of ecological dysfunction, organising the conversation before deeper diagnosis.",
      "aliases": [
        "gap-pattern triage",
        "eight-pattern triage"
      ],
      "related": [
        "limiting-indicator",
        "cascade-order",
        "diagnostic-confidence"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Land Health Gap",
      "slug": "land-health-gap",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/land-health-gap/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The distance between what is known about regenerative land management and the reality of making any of it happen on a specific piece of land, in a specific place, this season. EcoIntel exists to close it.",
      "aliases": [
        "the land-health gap",
        "land health gap"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Land Health Score",
      "slug": "land-health-score",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/land-health-score/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "A nine-level scale (1 Collapsed → 9 Flourishing) summarising the overall ecological condition of a piece of land, designed as a Beaufort Scale for ecosystem health.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "1–9 integer scale",
      "aliases": [
        "LHS",
        "Land Health Score band"
      ],
      "related": [
        "ecodynamics-engine",
        "energy-flow",
        "water-cycle",
        "mineral-cycle",
        "community-dynamics"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Leading-Indicator Gap",
      "slug": "leading-indicator-gap",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/leading-indicator-gap/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The time delay between when ecosystem function changes and when traditional lagging measurements (soil carbon, biodiversity counts, water infiltration) can detect it. Leading indicators close the gap.",
      "aliases": [
        "the leading-indicator gap"
      ],
      "related": [
        "comet-of-life",
        "weather-halo",
        "eye-and-orbit"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Limiting Indicator",
      "slug": "limiting-indicator",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/limiting-indicator/",
      "category": "metric",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The single ecological factor currently dragging a field's Land Health Score down. Improving anything else will not help much until the bottleneck is addressed.",
      "aliases": [
        "limiting factor",
        "the bottleneck indicator"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "cascade-order",
        "energy-flow",
        "water-cycle",
        "mineral-cycle",
        "community-dynamics"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Mineral Cycle",
      "slug": "mineral-cycle",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/mineral-cycle/",
      "category": "process",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "How effectively nutrients move between soil, plants, animals and decomposers. The third of the four ecosystem processes.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "MCI: 0–100 per field",
      "aliases": [
        "MCI",
        "Mineral Cycle Index"
      ],
      "related": [
        "energy-flow",
        "water-cycle",
        "community-dynamics",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "MRV Platform",
      "slug": "mrv-platform",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/mrv-platform/",
      "category": "framework",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "A system that produces verified carbon credits under a formal standard such as VCS, Gold Standard or Plan Vivo. **EcoIntel is NOT an MRV platform**: it is a diagnostic platform supporting better carbon management.",
      "aliases": [
        "Measurement Reporting Verification platform",
        "MRV system"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine",
        "permanence-risk"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Permanence Risk",
      "slug": "permanence-risk",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/permanence-risk/",
      "category": "metric",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "A durability label on carbon-sequestration claims. EcoIntel reports it per parcel as LOW / MODERATE / HIGH / CRITICAL based on fire, drought, pest, management-change and structural risk.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "LOW / MODERATE / HIGH / CRITICAL",
      "aliases": [
        "carbon permanence",
        "permanence label"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "mrv-platform",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Reference-state Targets",
      "slug": "reference-state-targets",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/reference-state-targets/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "Objective target ranges for ecological indicators that science says are achievable in a given ecoregion under good management. The benchmarks against which actual scores are measured.",
      "aliases": [
        "reference state",
        "ecoregion reference state"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "brittleness-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Stress-week Count",
      "slug": "stress-week-count",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/stress-week-count/",
      "category": "metric",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The annual tally of weeks during which a piece of land was under environmental stress, derived from ERA5-Land daily climate data. Used to de-trend ecological scores for the weather of the year.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "Integer count, 0 to ~52 per year",
      "aliases": [
        "stressed weeks",
        "annual stress weeks"
      ],
      "related": [
        "weather-corrected-scoring",
        "weather-halo",
        "brittleness-score"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Water Cycle",
      "slug": "water-cycle",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/water-cycle/",
      "category": "process",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "How effectively rainfall is captured, held and used by a piece of land. The second of the four ecosystem processes.",
      "scaleOrUnits": "WCI: 0–100 per field",
      "aliases": [
        "WCI",
        "Water Cycle Index"
      ],
      "related": [
        "energy-flow",
        "mineral-cycle",
        "community-dynamics",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Weather Halo",
      "slug": "weather-halo",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/weather-halo/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "The ~50-point-per-year swing in raw satellite greenness on any piece of land that is driven by weather rather than management. EcoIntel's weather-corrected scoring strips it out.",
      "aliases": [
        "the weather halo"
      ],
      "related": [
        "weather-corrected-scoring",
        "eye-and-orbit",
        "comet-of-life"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Weather-corrected Scoring",
      "slug": "weather-corrected-scoring",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/weather-corrected-scoring/",
      "category": "concept",
      "coinedBy": "EcoIntel",
      "shortDefinition": "EcoIntel's technique for separating the management signal in satellite ecological data from the weather noise, using parcel-specific climate covariates integrated into the prediction model.",
      "aliases": [
        "climate-detrended scoring",
        "weather correction",
        "weather normalisation"
      ],
      "related": [
        "weather-halo",
        "land-health-score",
        "stress-week-count",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "term": "Yeomans Scale of Permanence",
      "slug": "yeomans-scale-of-permanence",
      "url": "https://www.ecointel.io/glossary/yeomans-scale-of-permanence/",
      "category": "framework",
      "coinedBy": "external",
      "shortDefinition": "A design principle that ranks land-management actions by how difficult and energy-intensive they are to reverse, from most permanent (climate, landform) to least permanent (animal movement). EcoIntel organises recommendations to honour the scale.",
      "aliases": [
        "Scale of Permanence",
        "SOP",
        "Yeomans SOP"
      ],
      "related": [
        "land-health-score",
        "ecodynamics-engine"
      ],
      "lastReviewed": "2026-06-01"
    }
  ]
}