Understanding what vegetation is where plays a crucial role in effective land management and conservation practices. Geo Smart Decisions has worked with clients to develop species distribution models using GIS data as well as imagery from satellite Earth Observation, that identify areas that, with appropriate management, could serve as habitats to sensitive plants that are otherwise in decline.

Satellite Earth Observation, coupled with extensive field data and knowledge provided by our clients, enables in-house consultants and experts at Geo Smart Decisions to use advanced analytical techniques in data modelling to create reliable and robust models. GSD also works with land conservation surveyors, collecting and managing field data using mobile applications in the field. Current work in this area involves the assessment of areas of peat over Wales and will enable Natural Resources Wales, the managing authority for land management in Wales, to monitory and manage the regeneration of peat in Wales over the coming years and decades ahead.