How to create a Land Assessment project

The Land Assessment module evaluates your property or project area for feasibility and viability, highlighting implementation risks (e.g., slope) and regulatory constraints (e.g., tenure).

To assess your property, you have to provide the:

Property Boundary: The Property Boundary indicates the entire parcel of land that you own, lease or have a legal right to undertake a carbon project on.
Project Area: The area on your property within which your carbon project will operate.
Exclusion Zones: Areas of land within the Project Area that do not contribute to the abatement of a carbon project, including but not limited to buildings, rocky outcrops, or any other areas you wish to exclude from your project. The assessment results will automatically exclude roads and areas of existing woody cover.

How to outline these on the map

To outline your property boundary, project area and exclusion zones, you may use the polygon drawing tool on the map. Once you click the drawing tool icon, you can click on the map to indicate the first point of the area you are drawing. You can complete the shape by clicking back on the first point.
Alternatively, you can use the search functionality on the map to search an address.
You can also use the ‘upload’ button to upload a geospatial file. Once you have uploaded a file, you will see the filename indicated next to the button.
For the project area, you can use the same area you’ve used for the property boundary. Simply click the ‘use property boundary’ button.
Exclusion areas can be drawn using the same method as described above. If exclusion zones do not apply to your project area, you can skip this step.
Once all 3 areas have been created correctly, click next.