From grassland to data. From data to decisions.

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Measured on the ground

Research teams clip and weigh the grass, record the species and georeference every site. Those measurements calibrate and validate the models.

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Published, peer-reviewed science

The platform's models are published in peer-reviewed journals, from radiation use efficiency to the ecosystem services index.

• Read the articles

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The country, seen from space

The MODIS sensor, on board NASA satellites, observes Uruguay every day. Every 16 days a cloud-free image is composed, with 231 m pixels.

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25 years of images, processed in Google Earth Engine

Every pixel goes through the models: the radiation the vegetation absorbs, times how efficiently it turns it into grass. The result is a series since 2001.

• How each indicator is computed

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Ten indicators of how the land works

Productivity, water, soil, ecosystem services and human impact. Pick one to see it on the map.

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For the area you care about

More than 100,000 rural parcels, 279 police districts, basins at five levels and the areas you draw or upload.

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To decide with data

With the same information, a farmer can adjust stocking, a technical team can plan and a public agency can evaluate its policies.

• See an area's indicators

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Open to other applications

A documented API so apps, dashboards, notebooks and AI agents work on the same data, with its version and citation.

• See the API and open data