NIKA use case
NIKA for Conservation & land
Target acquisition and prove restoration outcomes for trusted monitoring, reporting, and verification.
For land trusts, NGOs, and carbon teams — find priority land and verify outcomes for credible MRV.
Kristaps Ungurs / UnsplashThe challenge
Everything you need exists — just not in one place.
Land trusts and carbon teams must prove outcomes across huge areas, but monitoring is manual and verification evidence is scattered — undermining trust in the results.
What NIKA does
How NIKA helps conservation & land teams.
Detect change
Spot new forest loss or gain in a watershed on a monthly cadence.
Verify outcomes
Document canopy and habitat change over time for audit-ready MRV.
Target acquisition
Rank parcels by habitat value and threat to focus limited budgets.
Products that power this
From the old way to the NIKA workflow.
Land trusts and carbon teams must prove outcomes across huge areas, but monitoring is manual and verification evidence is scattered — undermining trust in the results.
- 7 data sources that don’t talk to each other
- Analysts stitch it together by hand — days per question
- Often stale by the time the answer lands
- Detect changeNIKA GeoEngineExplore GeoEngine
Run canopy-height and forest-change models across the watershed monthly.
- Verify on the groundNIKA MobileExplore Mobile
Ground-truth restoration plots offline for credible, audit-ready MRV.
- Prove the outcomeNIKA AnalystExplore Analyst
Document canopy and habitat change and rank parcels by value and threat.
Faster alerts and credible, audit-ready verification.
How it works
From your data to a decision.
- Step 1
Connect your data
Files, folders, and the platforms your team already pays for.
- Step 2
Ask in plain language
No query language, no technical expertise — just the question.
- Step 3
NIKA reasons across location
It reads, searches, and runs the analysis grounded in real coordinates.
- Step 4
Get the decision
A report, map, or answer you can act on and share.
Data connectors NIKA uses
NIKA plugs into the platforms conservation & land teams already pay for, then reasons across them in one place.
- Global Forest Watch
- NatureServe
- Sylvera / Pachama MRV
- USFWS & EPA
- Planet imagery
- USGS / NLCD land cover
- Esri ArcGIS
What you can ask NIKA
- Detect new forest loss in this watershed monthly and alert me.
- Verify canopy gain on this restoration plot since 2020 for MRV.
- Rank parcels for acquisition by habitat value and threat.
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