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Methodology

Auditable methodology, from pixel to report

How EnvReg turns Earth observation into auditable environmental evidence — data sources, traceability principles, scientific basis, and security controls.

05Forest engineering, codified

Forest Code, IBAMA NI 14/2024 and the EUDR — in pipeline form.

EnvReg's intellectual property is not in an opaque model; it's in the exact translation of technical and regulatory rules into auditable code. Every clinical decision — APP along watercourses, Legal Reserve by biome, EUDR cut-off on 31 Dec 2020 — is deterministic, versioned and references the legal source.

Operating principle

EnvReg produces evidence. The professional decision is signed by the CREA-registered engineer.

Same legal model as QGIS, AutoCAD and ArcGIS — already consolidated in Brazilian engineering practice.

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    Legal hierarchy of sources

    Tier 1 (PRODES, SICAR, IBAMA) overrides Tier 2 (MapBiomas, GFW Hansen) on disagreement — explicitly flagged in the output.

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    Conservative defaults

    'Uncertain' is a valid output. The system never forces confidence where evidence is insufficient — which lowers professional risk for the signing engineer.

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    Pipeline versioning

    Every report carries the version of every dataset, method and code path. Byte-identical reproduction is a requirement, not a feature.

  • 04

    Per-claim provenance

    'This property has 4.7 ha of deforestation between 2020–2024' points to dataset, geometric operation, resolution and confidence interval.

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    Professional-responsibility model

    EnvReg produces evidence. The technical responsibility note (ART) is signed by a CREA-registered engineer. Same legal model as QGIS, AutoCAD, ArcGIS.

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    LGPD and privacy

    Owner personal data encrypted at rest, processed under legitimate-interest legal basis, with a deletion workflow on request.

04Satellite intelligence

Ten orbital and regulatory layers, aligned to the auditor's lens.

For a single property, the system cross-references Earth-observation data, hydrology, climate and Brazilian regulatory datasets. Every layer is versioned, cited and defensible under audit, enforcement or dispute.

Earth Engine · ESA Copernicus · NASA · INPE · MMA · IBAMA
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    MapBiomas Collection 9
    MapBiomas Network · Souza et al. 2020
    Land cover and use · 1985–present
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    PRODES
    INPE / TerraBrasilis
    Official deforestation rate for the Legal Amazon
  • 03
    DETER
    INPE
    Near-real-time deforestation alerts
  • 04
    MapBiomas Fire
    MapBiomas / LASA-UFRJ
    Historical burn-scar record
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    Sentinel-1 SAR
    ESA Copernicus
    Flood detection in the rainy season
  • 06
    Sentinel-2 MSI
    ESA Copernicus
    Optical composites, NDVI/EVI indices
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    GPM IMERG
    NASA / JAXA
    0.1° precipitation climatology
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    GEDI L2A/L4A
    NASA · Dubayah et al. 2020
    Canopy structure and biomass (Phase 2)
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    Public SICAR
    MMA · Brazilian Forest Service
    Rural-property geometry
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    IBAMA embargoes
    IBAMA
    Machine-readable embargo lists
11Scientific credibility

The bibliography your technical reviewer has already read.

EnvReg's technical layer is built on the state of the art in remote sensing, forest carbon accounting and environmental regulation. Every component of the MVP cites, versions and respects the underlying science.

INPE · MapBiomas · NASA · IPCC · Council of EU

  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

    Remote Sensing · 2020
    Souza et al.

    Methodological backbone of MapBiomas — the Earth Engine workflow EnvReg inherits.

  • PRODES and DETER — official methodology

    TerraBrasilis
    INPE

    Legally recognized baseline for deforestation in the Legal Amazon.

  • High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

    Science · 2013 + GFW updates
    Hansen et al.

    International cross-check for EUDR. European auditors read Hansen alongside PRODES.

  • Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

    Science · 2014
    Nepstad et al.

    Scientific precedent for supply-chain enforcement as a deforestation-reduction mechanism.

  • IPCC 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Guidelines for National GHG Inventories — AFOLU

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    IPCC

    Methodological standard for forest emissions accounting — spec for the MRV module.

  • The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)

    Science of Remote Sensing · 2020
    Dubayah et al.

    Foundation for biomass and canopy-structure work — Phase 2.

  • EU Regulation 2023/1115 (EUDR) + 2025/2650

    Official Journal of the European Union
    European Parliament & Council

    Primary legal text; the compliance product roadmap lives inside the regulation.

  • Where Does Brazil Stand with the Implementation of the Forest Code?

    2024 edition
    Climate Policy Initiative / PUC-Rio

    Quantifies the 96.7% backlog of unanalyzed CAR registrations — basis for market sizing.

Security & compliance

Secure infrastructure. Documented compliance.

EnvReg is built for enterprise teams that need verifiable security, LGPD compliance and a clear professional responsibility chain.

LGPD

Owner personal data encrypted at rest. Legitimate-interest legal basis. Documented deletion workflow on request.

Encryption in transit

HTTPS / TLS 1.3 across all routes. No data transmitted in clear text between client and server.

Audit logs

Full pipeline record per report: code version, datasets used, geometry hash, immutable timestamp.

Data retention

Documented policy. Client data not retained beyond what is necessary. Report retention configurable per organisation.

Responsibility model

EnvReg produces auditable technical evidence. Professional decision and ART signature belong to the CREA-registered engineer — same legal model as QGIS and ArcGIS.

Enterprise documentation

Security one-pager, DPA and MSA available on request. Technical review for enterprise integrations.

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Full security and compliance documentation available under NDA for enterprise partners.