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See the land conversion impacts of agriculture

Data, maps and insights on how your sourcing affects the Earth

A common language for understanding land use change

Orbae reveals what happens when agriculture expands into natural ecosystems.

Working from the ground up, it calculates carbon emissions and other metrics in high resolution, then combines them to reflect any land area in the world — a farm, a country or anywhere in between.

Clear insights for turning data into action.
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Prioritize

your hotspots
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Take action

at scale

Track your progress

towards zero conversion

How it works

Data built from the ground up

Any time land conversion is observed from space, Orbae attributes it to the right commodity. Field per field.

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All crops.

Anywhere in the world.

Any level of traceability.

All types of land conversion.

This is our ambition for Orbae.

It’s a work in progress, but we’re well on our way there.

We’re prioritizing the commodities that are well-known drivers of deforestation, then expanding to others.

features

See your land conversion hotspots like never before

  • Open data under Creative Commons
  • LUC emission factors for 60+ datasets
  • 30 countries, plus subnational jurisdictions
  • 11 commodities and their products
  • Transparent methodology
  • Farm and sourcing-region data available
  • Clear versioning and update notifications
  • Downloadable in Excel
Ending land conversion can't wait for perfect traceability. With Orbae, it doesn't have to.

Aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Science Based Targets initiative.
Fit for reporting — and more importantly, for strategic decision making.

An innovation from AdAstra Sustainability, experts in environmental accounting, data science, GIS and product development.

We created Orbae because we believe that good decisions start with good data.

Start-up innovation project supported by Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency

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Why land conversion

We have less than 5 years to stop converting land
and start restoring it.

Land conversion makes up an estimated 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions — the majority of which come from agriculture. The global deadline to stop forest loss and protect other natural ecosystems is set for 2030.

better data is here

Together we can stop land conversion by 2030.