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Porini Trees — Sangwali Pilot

Zambezi Region, Namibia (former Caprivi Strip) · Mopane & Zambezi-teak woodland / Kwando floodplain edge

Partner: WWF Namibia · Wuparo ConservancyBaseline 2019-06100% real-data lineage

⤓ Monitoring report

Trees mapped

Healthy rate

Stressed

Lost

VHR hero trees

0.0 t

CO₂ stored*

Health distribution

1353 trees

Healthy (1076)Stressed (180)Lost (59)Unverified (38)

Greening trend

Mean NDVI by year

Project-wide average greenness, 2019–2025 (Sentinel-2).

Composition

Species mix

Satellite overlay catalogue

Datasets to layer on the map

Practical overlay backlog for the satellite view: what is already visible, what should become a toggle next, and what belongs in the analysis or training pipeline.

Live

Pipeline

Training

SkyFi / Maxar VHR dry + wet scenes

Purchased satellite · 30-50 cm · SkyFi / Maxar

P0Live / in app

Primary visual layer and crown geometry for hero trees.

Already purchased; served from local VHR overlays.

OpenStreetMap / OpenFreeMap

Basemap · Vector map · OSM contributors / OpenFreeMap

P0Live / in app

Roads, places, rivers and a clean non-satellite map mode.

Keyless tiles now; later self-host Protomaps PMTiles.

Meta / WRI 1 m Canopy Height

Tree structure · 1 m · Meta, WRI, AWS Open Data

P0Live / in app

Independent structural prior for tree centers and height cross-checks.

Cached AOI COG sampled into tree records.

Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs

Multispectral imagery · 10 m · Copernicus / Element 84 Earth Search

P0Live / in app

Medium-resolution satellite context in the map; NDVI composites are the next cached analytical product.

Live Sentinel-2 cloudless visual tile toggle now; STAC/COG NDVI composites next.

ESA WorldCover

Land cover · 10 m · ESA

P0Live / in app

Tree cover, shrubland, grassland, wetland and water context masks.

Map toggle via server tile proxy; falls back transparently if upstream WMTS is unavailable.

NASA FIRMS active fire

Disaster / risk · 375 m - 1 km · NASA

P0Live / in app

Recent fire points/heatmap and tree-risk explanation.

Map toggle via `/api/fire`; requires FIRMS_MAP_KEY for live upstream data.

JRC Global Surface Water

Hydrology · 30 m · EC JRC / Google

P0Live / in app

Floodplain seasonality and permanent/seasonal water overlays.

Live public raster tile toggle.

Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS)

Multispectral time series · 30 m · NASA IMPACT

P1Analysis pipeline

Longer, harmonized phenology baselines when Sentinel-2 alone is cloudy.

NASA LP DAAC / cloud assets.

Landsat 8/9 Collection 2

Long-term imagery · 30 m · USGS

P1Analysis pipeline

Historical vegetation and disturbance context before Sentinel-2.

EarthExplorer / USGS cloud products.

Dynamic World

Land cover · 10 m · Google / WRI

P1Analysis pipeline

Near-real-time land-cover probabilities around the AOI.

Best via Earth Engine; cache outputs.

Microsoft Global Building Footprints

Buildings / urban · Vector · Microsoft

P1Live / in app

Mask buildings/settlements and separate trees from structures.

Live map toggle uses OSM buildings now; Microsoft country shard clipping is the offline hardening step.

Google Open Buildings

Buildings / urban · Vector · Google Research

P1Analysis pipeline

Building masks for settlement context and false-positive control.

Open dataset exports.

Overture Maps Places

Places / mobility · Vector · Overture Maps Foundation

P1Analysis pipeline

Places, roads and settlement context for donor/map orientation.

Cloud-native GeoParquet.

SRTM Digital Elevation Model

Terrain · 30 m · NASA / AWS terrain tiles

P1Live / in app

Hillshade and terrain context on the satellite map.

Terrarium tiles already integrated as relief.

MODIS land products

Environment / climate · 250 m - 1 km · NASA

P2Analysis pipeline

Regional vegetation, fire and drought context; not tree-level.

NASA/LP DAAC products.

Global Forest Watch tree cover loss

Forest loss · 30 m · GFW / Hansen

P1Live / in app

Regional forest-loss context and disturbance overlays.

Live public raster tile toggle; AOI statistics can be cached later.

Copernicus Emergency Management Service

Flood / disaster · Event products · Copernicus EMS

P2Analysis pipeline

Event-driven flood/fire/disaster overlays when activated.

Manual/event catalogue ingestion.

Maxar Open Data Program

Flood / disaster · Sub-meter event imagery · Maxar

P2Restricted / manual

Opportunistic event imagery for disaster comparison layers.

Only where an activation exists; license/coverage dependent.

DeepForest / local crown labels

Model training · Sub-meter · DeepForest ecosystem

P1Training reference

Fine-tune tree-crown detector once enough local labels exist.

Training pipeline, not a map overlay.

SEN12MS

Model training · 10 m · Sentinel-1/2 benchmark

P2Training reference

Remote-sensing ML reference; not directly useful for individual crowns.

Benchmark download.

DSTL Satellite Imagery Feature Detection

Model training · High-res benchmark · Kaggle

P2Training reference

Feature-detection training reference, not Zambezi-specific overlay.

Kaggle terms.

xView2 building damage

Model training · VHR disaster benchmark · xView2

P2Training reference

Damage-model reference; useful only for future disaster workflows.

Challenge dataset.

Sen1Floods11

Model training · Sentinel-1/2 flood benchmark · Flood ML benchmark

P2Training reference

Flood segmentation reference; can inform future water/flood alerts.

Benchmark download.

NASA Prithvi geospatial models

Foundation model · HLS scale · NASA / IBM

P2Training reference

Foundation-model experiments for land-cover/change, not direct crowns.

Model/data tooling.

Foursquare Open Places

Places / mobility · Vector POI · Foursquare

P2Analysis pipeline

POI context where coverage exists; secondary to OSM/Overture.

Dataset download/API.

Google Dataset Search

Discovery · Catalogue · Google

P2Restricted / manual

Find additional Zambezi/Namibia geospatial datasets; not an overlay itself.

Manual research.

dMRV & verification

Why you can trust this

✓Every tree has a permanent ID and an append-only observation log.
✓Each datapoint carries its source, confidence and model version.
✓Locations from the free Meta/WRI 1 m canopy map; health from Sentinel-2; 14 hero crowns from SkyFi VHR.
✓Payments are PES (stewardship), not carbon credits — survival-linked, transparent.

Measured detection accuracy

84%

Precision

77%

Recall

0.80

Photo-interpretation of 99 reference trees across 3 sample tiles (Maxar dry 2023-08-19 + wet 2024-02-12 · 0.46 m). Indicative, not certified — Numbers shown are the prior calibrated measurement (pre-Phase-0). At Phase-0's higher detection density, dense clumps are over-tagged and a precise manual count is unreliable — formal re-measurement now uses the /feedback human ground-truth (active-learning loop). Treat as indicative.

One-click monitoring report bundles methods, time-series and a provenance appendix for auditors and donors.

Open monitoring report →

Community stewards

Who keeps the trees alive

Tabita · Wuparo North block

357 trees · Sangwali · with WWF Namibia

Joseph · Kwando floodplain edge

568 trees · Sangwali · with WWF Namibia

Maria · Wuparo South block

428 trees · Sangwali · with WWF Namibia

Representative placeholder profiles for the demo.

*CO₂ figures are hedged canopy-allometry estimates over living trees, for illustration — not issued carbon credits.