What it does
- Multi-scale views: parcel, holding, sub-catchment, catchment, partnership, bioregion
- Hillshade and slope derived from Environment Agency LiDAR
- Canopy height mapping showing where trees actually are now
- Editable boundaries; polygon upload from GeoJSON and shapefile
- Parcel ingestion from SBI + RPA WFS for SBI-registered farms, with map-based confirmation
- Layered annotations — pin photos, notes, fieldwork, historic features anywhere
- Export to common GIS formats
Why it matters
Ecological consultancies, conservation organisations, and catchment coordinators work across multiple holdings, multiple clients, and multiple scales simultaneously. Ecology App keeps every scale live at once: zoom out for the strategic story, zoom in for the field decision, with detail preserved at every level.
Example
A bioregion coordinator running an 80-landowner network across a single catchment in south-east England uses Ecology App to maintain a live recruitment-curve map: which parcels are in, which are being approached, which are dark. The same map is the spatial annex to every funder bid the network sends out.