Prove every tree survived — not just planted.
MazingiraShield watches every planted site from orbit, reconciles it against real ground surveys, and turns the result into a carbon report a county officer or a donor can actually trust.
From orbit to a number you can defend
Every site moves through the same four stages, so the survival rate on a report always traces back to a specific pass of satellite imagery and a specific person on the ground.
Satellite capture
Multispectral imagery is pulled for the site boundary on every revisit — 10m resolution, wide enough to cover a ward, tight enough to resolve a canopy.
NDVI classification
Vegetation index shifts sort trees into alive, stressed, or dead, and flag any drop in canopy cover before it becomes a lost planting season.
Ground verification
Field officers log actual counts, species, and notes from a site visit. Ground truth is reconciled against the satellite estimate, not treated as a separate record.
Verified report
Survival rate, carbon sequestered, and full site history export as a signed PDF or CSV, ready for a county file or a funder's audit.
One map, every site you're responsible for
Built for the person who has to answer for a planting programme months after the launch photo was taken.
Live, tree-level map
Every tree renders as a dot colored by health status, overlaid on the site boundary, with per-hectare stats a click away.
Deforestation & failure alerts
A sudden canopy or NDVI drop surfaces immediately, so a dying block gets a field visit while it's still worth saving.
Carbon accounting
An IPCC Tier 1 allometric model turns survival, species mix, and stand age into an estimated tonnes-CO₂e figure, per site.
Field survey tool
Officers record ground counts, notes, and survey dates from a phone. Every entry writes straight into the site timeline.
Multi-site dashboard
Manage every plot, ward, or conservancy from one login. Switch sites without losing the thread of any single one.
Exportable records
Generate a formatted PDF or CSV report in one click — logged, timestamped, and ready to sit in a county file.
Verified beneficiary payouts
Register the caretakers behind each site and pay them per surviving tree at set checkpoints — tied to real survey data, with a running, auditable record of who was paid, how much, and why.
Carbon numbers you can walk through, line by line
Every CO₂e figure starts from a living tree count — alive trees full weight, stressed trees at half weight — and a stand age worked out from the planting date.
Species-specific allometric coefficients convert that into above-ground biomass. Root mass, a biomass expansion factor, and a carbon fraction bring it to total carbon stock, and the standard molecular ratio converts carbon to CO₂ equivalent.
Where a site's species mix isn't recorded, the model falls back to an IPCC tropical broadleaf default and says so on the report — nothing is presented as more precise than the underlying data allows.
Whoever has to answer for a planting programme
The launch-day photo is easy. MazingiraShield is for the eighteen months after it, when someone asks what actually grew.
County governments
Track planting mandates across wards with records that hold up when a budget or an audit asks for evidence, not just a target number.
NGOs & conservancies
Give a donor a survival curve and a carbon estimate instead of a photo update, reconcile field visits with satellite data automatically, and show verified, per-checkpoint payouts reaching the community members doing the work.
Corporate CSR programmes
Back a planting commitment with monitoring data instead of a press release, and catch a failing block before it undermines the whole claim.