Ecological Intelligence

Product

The Land Health System

Structured, continuous ecological intelligence — field → farm → landscape.

Earth-observation and other data, translated by our EcoDynamics Engine into a process-based ecosystem performance management system.

The four pillars

  • Continuous monitoring

    Assess

    Ecological performance scored on the Land Health Score — a nine-level scale, field-by-field, with historical data back to 2018.

  • Decision support

    Diagnose

    Process-based diagnosis across the four primary ecosystem processes — energy, water, mineral, community — that underpin all life on earth.

  • Practical guidance

    Act

    Goal-dependent decision support, agnostic to management approach. Quick wins, strategic investments, ecosystem-service indicators, risk and opportunity.

  • Framework-aligned

    Report

    One analysis aligned with multiple disclosure frameworks. TNFD LEAP, CSRD/ESRS E4 & E1, GHG Protocol, ISO 14064-2.

What the system delivers

Three headline elements sit behind the four pillars — what makes the Land Health System useful in practice, on this land, in this place, this season.

1. An objective, independent assessment of the land's ecological performance, scored in a continuous time-series, field-by-field, in every season. What the land has actually done, not what anyone has claimed about it. The historical record reaches back to 2018, so every parcel arrives with a multi-year scored history attached.

2. A credible, easily understandable diagnosis of why the land is performing the way it is. Four diagnostic layers build the picture: context (physics, topography, ecoregion, climate), water cycle (where and how water flows), living systems (biology and functional diversity across weeks and seasons), and carbon & productivity (the carbon-based cashflow statement of the land-based economy).

3. Practical, actionable insights and advice for better outcomes — matched to the on-the-ground reality of each field and to the scale of ambition for the land, whether the destination is regeneration, recovery or restoration.

All three sit on top of a structured report suite — two packages, six possible deliverables. See the full report suite →

The Land Health Score

A Beaufort Scale for ecological health. A nine-level scale that communicates the condition of any piece of land, in any season, anywhere we have satellite coverage.

Landscape-zones view of Wilder Wood Farm — the property mapped against its surrounding ecoregional context, showing how the score is calibrated to what is achievable for this climate-landform-landcover combination.
Landscape zones around Wilder Wood Farm. Every score is calibrated against what is achievable in this ecoregion, not a universal target.

Eight years of history, on every property

Every parcel arrives with a multi-year scored history attached. Below: Wilder Wood Farm's Land Health classification at 10-metre hex resolution, year on year from 2018 to 2025. The greens hold their shape across a fair range of weather years — the property's score is real, not weather noise.

  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2018 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2018
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2019 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2019
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2020 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2020
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2021 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2021
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2022 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2022
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2023 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2023
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2024 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2024
  • Land Health classification map of Wilder Wood Farm in 2025 — every 10-metre hexagon shaded on the nine-band score scale, dark green for healthier parcels through to brown where ecological function has thinned. 2025
Land Health classification for Wilder Wood Farm, eight growing seasons 2018 through 2025. Darker green = healthier; brown = degraded.
  1. 9

    Flourishing

    Ecosystem at fullest expression. Strengthens under disturbance.

  2. 8

    Thriving

    All processes highly active. Strong biological diversity and vitality.

  3. 7

    Healthy

    All core processes functioning well. Minor vulnerabilities only.

  4. 6

    Recovering

    Measurable improvement underway. Trajectory clearly positive.

  5. 5

    Transitional

    Some processes functioning, others compromised. Trend unstable.

  6. 4

    Stressed

    Multiple processes impaired. System under significant strain.

  7. 3

    Degraded

    Most processes failing. Structural damage evident. Urgent action needed.

  8. 2

    Depleted

    Severe dysfunction across systems. Biological capital critically low.

  9. 1

    Collapsed

    System failure. Bare soil dominant, minimal vegetation or function.

The EcoDynamics Engine

EcoIntel's proprietary analytical framework translates satellite and other data into process-based ecosystem diagnostics. We assess the functional conditions that drive every downstream outcome: carbon sequestration, biodiversity, soil health, water retention, farm profitability.

Ecosystem Process Kite for Wilder Wood Farm — four axes (Water Cycle, Energy Flow, Mineral Cycle, Community Dynamics) each scored 1-9. The diamond shape shows Water Cycle at Level 8 Thriving, the others around Level 5-6, with Community Dynamics as the limiting process.
The Ecosystem Process Kite for Wilder Wood Farm. The diamond shape names the limiting process at a glance — here, Community Dynamics is the shortest axis. The dashed circle is the composite Land Health Score.

The four ecosystem processes

  • Energy Flow

    Sunlight converted to bio-available energy by photosynthesis, cycled through the living system.

  • Water Cycle

    Water movement drives all other ecosystem processes — infiltration, evaporation, groundwater.

  • Mineral Cycle

    Nutrients cycling continuously through the living system — soil, organisms, atmosphere.

  • Community Dynamics

    Species mix and relationships create system stability, diversity, balance, and resilience.

Risk and opportunity, mapped at field level

EcoIntel's reporting suite includes dedicated risk and opportunity reports — turning the diagnosis into the conversation a lender, an insurer, a tenant or a successor actually needs to have.

Risk covers a spectrum: topographic, ecosystemic, management, climate and financial. Fields with declining trajectories, valley positions failing to do their hydrological job, water security running close to the margins even in a wet climate, stranded assets, and more. The system maps these risks at field level and translates them into ecological, financial and compliance language — where natural capital is eroding, where long-term asset value is shifting, where succession risk is building, where regulatory exposure is growing.

Opportunity is the flip side. The system tells you where constraints are also leverage points. It separates the quick wins — fields close to a Land Health Score band boundary where small changes will produce a measurable shift in one or two growing seasons — from actions that require strategic investment to deliver compound returns over a multi-year horizon.

Every recommendation is anchored in what each parcel is currently doing, what its relative position in the landscape means and allows, and what climate, terrain and existing land use make practical.

Complementary, not competitive

Existing tools measure component outputs. The Land Health System analyses the conditions driving those outputs. It strengthens Carbon MRV, natural-capital tools, biodiversity surveys, and regulatory reporting. It is different because it strengthens decision-making — to deliver better outcomes, whatever component you want to improve.

How the Land Health System relates to other tools
Tool Their primary purpose Land Health System application
Carbon MRV Single-metric verification Analyses the ecosystem flows that create the carbon
Natural-capital tools Proxy-based asset valuation Focuses on actual ecosystem function
Biodiversity tools Species counts and surveys Assesses the system that delivers biodiversity change
Soil tests Point-in-time sampling Continuous assessment of evolving ecosystem health
Regulatory reports Disclosure frameworks Makes sense of how well nature is really doing

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