Forest baselines you can check
The forest, measured. The measurement, checkable.
Kanopy measures a reserve from open satellite data and records a fingerprint of the boundary, the inputs, the code and the result in a public registry. This page recomputes those fingerprints in your browser and compares them with the registry. It also shows which ground is already counted for a year, so two projects cannot count it twice.
1What was measured
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2Does it match the registry?
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| Fingerprint | What it covers | In the registry | Result |
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The first two rows hash the files themselves in this browser. The next two hash the published list of raster and script fingerprints. Checking the rasters, the scripts and the boundary file byte for byte, and rerunning the analysis, is what python tools/verify.py does.
3Is this ground already counted?
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4What this does not show
- It is not a carbon credit. The registry records measurements and who counts which ground. It does not issue, price or transfer anything.
- The carbon figure is wide. It is above-ground biomass from a global map, and the uncertainty shown is the map's own. Nobody has walked either reserve for us.
- A match proves the record was not changed. It does not prove the satellite products are right about the forest. That takes field plots.
- The claims here are demonstrations. They were made with Kam Edge test keys, not by the authorities that manage these reserves, and the overlap area is a rectangle we drew.