Chloris Geospatial
Bigger picture
Protecting and restoring forests both increases their capacity as a carbon sink and yields a variety of co-benefits. Carbon offsets generated by aboveground biomass (such as forests, shrubs, leaves) are one of the most widely adopted methods for offsetting carbon through nature-based solutions, but still rely on crude measurements. Transparent, high-integrity measurements of natural capital that are accurate at scale are needed to drive meaningful impact from a carbon perspective.
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The problem
Traditional approaches for measuring aboveground biomass have been costly, inaccurate or unscalable. Approaches that try to directly measure carbon stocks have previously been limited by the use of unscalable techniques, from field surveys to airborne lidar. This has led to misleading measurements resulting in public mistrust in nature based carbon offset markets. However, delivering accurate carbon measurements at both the stand scale (< 1 hectare) and landscape scale (> 100 hectares) is really challenging. This requires combining remote-sensing and data specific to each biome into sophisticated measurements that can reveal the underlying dynamics of natural capital, and provide high-integrity, reliable accounting.
Why Chloris Geospatial?
Chloris is the first company to estimate the dynamics of aboveground biomass carbon stocks over large scales and long time series everywhere on the planet, solving the problem of above ground carbon accounting. This enables them to quantify global natural capital with confidence at a jurisdictional level.
Exceptional scientific and commercial knowhow the team combines decades of experience in remote-sensing technology for earth observation, deep expertise in ecological processes and in situ measurements, and purpose-driven, commercial leadership to revolutionize the near real-time monitoring of global carbon.
Unique and superior global carbon dataset: Chloris is developing an innovative, multi-year time-series carbon map at 30m spatial resolution, formed using remote sensing data, proprietary algorithms and machine learning. Chloris’s products measure previously difficult and unobserved losses and gains of carbon while providing a reliable measure of uncertainty. This gives superior accuracy and precision of carbon change over time from stand to continental scale.
A global carbon stock map of far higher accuracy over time and space. Chloris provides measurements up to 10x more accurate than what is routinely available in large scale datasets, while also offering global coverage. This leads to greater integrity in reporting and more reliable quantification of trends over time, giving customers the highest possible transparency on the true performance of land assets.
