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Step-by-step walkthroughs

Seven walkthroughs, one for each way into the UmaTerra platforms. Each opens a real example — an orchard parcel and a park near Kelowna, a point in the forest, an Indigenous land in Brazil, a spot on the climate map — and follows the analysis in the order the app presents it, saying where each number comes from and where it stops.

The walkthroughs run inside each app, on its own maps, and open quickly because the example's results come precomputed. The footnotes come from the papers that describe the tools. No sign-up needed. Four examples are around Kelowna (BC); the Indigenous-land, drawn-area and batch ones are in Brazil, because the Canada pages offer no drawing or batch runs and do not analyse Indigenous lands.

The walkthroughs and stories are exploratory: generated with automatic measurements and processing, they form an interpretation of the data available in the UmaTerra platforms and have not been validated outside UmaTerra or peer reviewed.

Camposcope

Rural properties in public cadastres

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  1. I have a parcel's PID

    How to read a parcel in Camposcope, one layer at a time

    A real orchard parcel in Kelowna, opened from its ParcelMap BC PID: three bands of neighbourhood, fifteen crop inventories, forest loss, biomass, fire, and a forest map that disagrees with the farm map about what an orchard is.

    12 steps
    1. From a PID to a polygon
    2. What the fabric says, and what it does not
    3. Three bands out from the property line
    4. Fifteen crop inventories in one chart
    5. The parcel against its neighbourhood
    6. Where every hectare came from
    7. Twenty-five years of tree-cover loss
    8. Biomass: a model, with a larger error
    9. Fire, at a coarser scale
    10. Two maps, two answers
    11. Where every number came from
    12. What Camposcope does not say
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Naturametrics

Land use history and landscape analysis

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  1. I want to read the landscape around a point

    How to read the landscape around a point, one layer at a time

    A real point in Myra-Bellevue, above the East Kelowna orchards: five circles around it, fifteen crop inventories, the age of every forest stand, and twenty-five years of tree-cover loss, where 2003 stands out.

    10 steps
    1. It all starts from a point
    2. Five circles around the point
    3. Fifteen crop inventories in one circle
    4. Near and far tell different stories
    5. The point's own pixel, no averaging
    6. How old the forest is
    7. Tree cover lost and gained, circle by circle
    8. The years that stand out
    9. Everything on screen, in one spreadsheet
    10. What Naturametrics does not say
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Yvynation

Indigenous lands, conservation units and protected areas

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  1. I follow an Indigenous land

    How to read an Indigenous land in Yvynation, from the inside out

    A land from FUNAI's catalogue: forty years of MapBiomas, Hansen forest loss, clearing, regrowth and fire year by year, and the same reading for the 10 km around it.

    10 steps
    1. Pick the land from FUNAI's catalogue
    2. Ten kilometres around, for comparison
    3. Inside and out, in the latest year
    4. Forty years in three snapshots
    5. What became what
    6. A second opinion on the forest
    7. Year by year: clearing, regrowth and fire
    8. The same line, inside and out
    9. Report, tables and maps to take away
    10. What Yvynation does not say
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  2. I follow a protected area

    How to read a protected area, one layer at a time

    Okanagan Mountain Park, from Canada's register of protected areas: three bands around it, fifteen crop inventories, and the August 2003 fire, seen in both the tree-cover loss and the burned-area record.

    10 steps
    1. Pick the park from the national register
    2. Three bands around the boundary
    3. Fifteen years of cover inside the park
    4. The park against its neighbourhood
    5. What became what
    6. Tree cover lost, year by year
    7. The fire, seen from orbit
    8. Two maps, two answers
    9. Where every number came from
    10. What Yvynation does not say
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  3. My area isn't on any official map

    Draw the area: the question no official map asks

    Draw a polygon, or upload a file, and the same analyses run on it. The example is a strip along the Madeira river, where two dams filled their reservoirs from 2011 on.

    10 steps
    1. Draw, or upload a file
    2. Ten kilometres around, for comparison
    3. Inside and out, in the latest year
    4. Forty years in three snapshots
    5. What became what
    6. A second opinion on the forest
    7. Year by year: clearing, regrowth and fire
    8. The same line, inside and out
    9. Report, tables and maps to take away
    10. What Yvynation does not say
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  4. I need to compare many territories

    A hundred territories in an afternoon: batch processing, step by step

    The full analysis on up to a hundred territories at once, handed back in a single ZIP. Each screen of a real run, ending with what even a small batch can answer.

    7 steps
    1. Pick many areas at once
    2. Check before spending an afternoon
    3. Years, analyses, figures and the surrounding zone
    4. Running unattended
    5. One file, with everything inside
    6. What even a small batch can answer
    7. What the batch does not say
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climate-shift

Climate exposure of land use, point by point

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  1. I want to know what climate a place is exposed to

    How to read the climate exposure of a place, one layer at a time

    A real point in East Kelowna, among orchards, vineyards and town: the land use in the circle, nine CMIP6 models each compared with itself, forty years of measured rain, terrain and fire — to find which land is exposed to the changes the models agree on.

    18 steps
    1. A point, a circle and a climate cell
    2. What is in the circle today
    3. Where today's land came from
    4. Nine climate models, each compared with itself
    5. How to read a projection
    6. Heat: the signal everyone agrees on
    7. Rain: where the models most often split
    8. Middle or high emissions: still close by 2050
    9. Which world, and where it already exists
    10. What has already been measured, and when two records disagree
    11. Wind: only what was measured
    12. Terrain decides where heavy rain does harm
    13. A decade of fire
    14. The fire danger ahead
    15. The climate class inside the circle
    16. Hazard × land use = exposed area
    17. A written story, and the data's fingerprint
    18. What climate-shift does not say
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