What’s New November 2024: Erosion, waterways, fish, QEII land, and more

Winter may be over but we're layering up! We’ve added a bunch of new data layers to our platform to help with forestry, conservation and soil erosion management.

• Waterways layer

• Fish spawning indicator layer

• Erosion susceptibility layer

• QEII covenanted land layer

• Powerlines layer

• Land Use Capability (LUC) layer

• Bug fixes

New Features

New layer: Waterways

This layer sourced from LINZ shows streams, rivers and lakes. Useful for planning riparian planting, or ensuring waterway setbacks inline with resource management regulations.

Want to learn more about riparian planting – check out our blog post here

New layer: Fish Spawning Indicator

This layer provided to us by the NES-PF (National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry) indicates where fish are spawning, use this to help plan forestry activities.

More info here.

New layer: Erosion Susceptibility Indicator

Also from NES-PF, the Erosion Susceptibility Classification (ESC) is used to identify the erosion risk of land as a basis for determining where a plantation forestry activity requires resource consent.

More info here.

New layer: QEII Covenanted Land

The QEII national trust protects species including the nationally critical kakī or black stilt, the world’s rarest penguin the hoiho, and our rarest kiwi, the rowi. This layer shows where QEII covenants exist.

Want to learn more about covenants check out our past blog posts here and here

New Layer: Powerlines

Powerlines pose limits for establishing forests. Get shockingly good insights into where the powerlines run on your land so you can plan and manage your forests with ease.

New Layers: Land Use Capability (LUC)

The land use capability system classifies land by productivity and is provided by Landcare Research.

More info here.

Bug Fixes

• “Go to problematic feature” button in the warnings tab now works again

• To reduce confusion, we aligned our reporting years for carbon intelligence, land reports, and site level graphs. Now for example, “2024 carbon” always refers to the carbon sequestered in that year. This carbon can be claimed from the start of the year after.

• Copying a share link for the registered area report, land assessment report or for FieldScan now just copies the link text.

Stay tuned for more updates next month!

• Source: https://www.carboncrop.com/post/carboncrop-platform-update-november-2024