Between supplier self-declaration and actual on-the-ground reality lies a gap that audits don't survive. NordiQ closes it with its own SAR satellite analysis — plot-accurate and independent of cloud cover.
Questionnaires and certificates from suppliers are a starting point — but not proof. The EUDR requires a geodata-based statement per plot, not a signature.
Only a fraction of suppliers measure their own deforestation risk — self-declaration remains an unconfirmed claim.
Purely optical earth observation fails under cloud cover — a structural problem especially in the tropics.
Water stress, conflict, political instability and sanctions are mostly left out of pure EUDR tools.
The billing unit follows what is being monitored — not user counts.
Monitoring of individual plants, processing facilities or extraction points — for metal and raw-material supply chains with site-level risk.
Concession and plantation areas with existing reference geometry — tiered by hectare, SAR-based rather than a plain map layer.
For supply chains with a high smallholder share, in partnership with field partners for initial reference-geometry collection.
Concession boundaries, CAR/SICAR polygons or surveyed smallholder plots as the starting area.
Backscatter anomalies as an indicator of land-cover change — independent of clouds, every 6–12 days; optionally daily at high-risk sites via commercial SAR constellations.
A second, independent layer to confirm detected changes.
Extended with further risk dimensions — including water stress, conflict, political instability, sanctions — for a picture that goes beyond deforestation.
Part of the same methodology
We use the same satellite-based analysis for proving peatland rewetting. View Peatland & Wetland Monitoring →
We work out together which tier fits your supply chain — and what monitoring actually costs.