LiveThe Vireo Neural Map
Peat depth, water and habitat on your site, live.
A peat depth and habitat map for your site: before anyone walks your ground, the Vireo Neural Map has already read the land around it. Explore it live below: real measurements, real radar, real habitat. Then put your own site in front of it.
What are you deciding?
01The map behind every site
249,948 measurements. One connected map.
Every column is real peat depth, measured and placed on a 5 km grid across England and Scotland. Hover or tap a column to read it. Switch views to see what the map infers between them, and the network that connects them.
02One method, every question
Pick a question. Tap the map. Get an answer.
Four real datasets, read the way your pack reads your site. Every layer is measured and sourced. Where we rank, model or assume, we say so.
Four questions. Try each one: tap a card, then tap the map.
Every gully, every hag, every millimetre.
Most radar maps assume the ground moves straight down. On upland slopes it rarely does. The Vireo read combines both satellite passes, works out which way each cell is moving, and flags where the satellites cannot see at all. Turn on Motion direction and Radar geometry, then tap anywhere. Check first shows the twelve places the map would probe first. Every layer is measured; the ranking is ours.
Ground
On steep ground a 100 m radar average can misstate movement: slopes are compressed or hidden from one pass, and movement often runs along the slope rather than down. Vertical and east-west movement are measured from ascending and descending Sentinel-1 passes, and north and south-facing slopes are flagged. LiDAR change covers part of the site, with changes within ±5 cm masked. Boundary generalised.
Probes go where the evidence is weakest, not on a blind grid.
Steep peat, gullies and moving ground, found at layout stage, before a single trial pit.
A probing plan with a reason for every point. Your client sees the logic.
Gullies, hags and bare ground mapped: the restoration plan starts here.
Every reading checked against its neighbours.
Main rivers and waterbody catchments across 1,400 km² of upland England, flowing live. Each monitoring point is linked to its upstream and downstream neighbours along the network; a point that breaks from them lights up. The same neighbour read ran sealed on 3,111 stream stations across Ireland: 2,813 in line, 143 below range, 155 above. Each outlier is a place to look.
Rivers and catchments: Environment Agency, Open Government Licence. Point positions and classes here are illustrative; the Irish results are from Vireo's sealed register.
What happens upstream decides what reaches your site.
Every main river crossing and the catchment behind it, before the construction method statement.
Catchment context with source and date, ready for the water chapter.
Water outcomes your land could deliver, mapped to the catchment that needs them.
See which parcels create the most units.
Real habitat parcels from Natural England's Priority Habitat Inventory, scored with statutory metric distinctiveness. Tap a parcel to plan its enhancement from moderate to good condition and watch the habitat units it creates, after the metric's time and difficulty multipliers. Your pack does this with surveyed condition.
Units are value. Know which parcels create them before you commit.
Know the baseline and the off-site options early, not at the planning condition.
A habitat baseline from evidence, ready for your ecologist to confirm on the ground.
See which fields earn the most units before you sign a section 106 or a conservation covenant.
Millimetres matter. We read them from orbit.
Over 3,600 radar points across Humberhead Peatlands and the farmland, villages and roads around it, each with a 2020 to 2024 vertical velocity. The vertical figure is derived by combining ascending and descending Sentinel-1 passes, each looking along a slant line about 30 to 45 degrees off vertical. Switch to the measured record and drag through five years of real displacement. The same read works on a quarry, a mine, a cutting or an embankment.
EGMS L3 Ortho, 2020 to 2024 release (302 acquisitions, 8 Jan 2020 to 18 Dec 2024). Vertical derived from ascending and descending passes. Referenced to the EGMS GNSS model. Points are persistent scatterers, densest on hard surfaces and sparse on bare peat. A screening read, not a substitute for monitoring.
Movement is the earliest sign of change below ground.
Settlement along a corridor, read before the ground investigation is scoped.
Five years of motion history, with its source, attached to the points you report.
Where radar holds on peat, it adds a motion record to your evidence.
03What only the map can tell you
Satellites see the surface. The Neural Map predicts what is under it.
What satellites and surveys show
- Surface movement, in millimetres a year
- Surface change between LiDAR surveys
- Vegetation, wetness and habitat from above
- Point measurements, wherever someone has probed
Every one of these stops at the surface, or at the probe.
What the Vireo Neural Map adds
- Peat depth where nobody has probed. Error 22.9 cm against 28.4 cm for the England Peat Map, at 186 independent sites. Sealed.
- Deep peat better than the standard method. Beat kriging in 18 of 18 held-out survey programmes.
- Water quality at streams it has never seen. Skill rises from 0.36 to 0.64 once neighbouring layers join, at 870 unseen sites. Sealed.
- Which way the ground is really moving, and where the satellites cannot see, on every slope.
- Where to look next. The cells where the evidence disagrees, ranked before anyone walks the site.
04Proof, not promises
Declared before it is scored. Scored once. Published either way.
Every claim the Neural Map makes is tested against ground truth it has never seen, with the test written down first. Wins and losses go on the register.
Peat depth error against the England Peat Map, 186 independent sites
SEALEDHeld-out survey programmes where the map beat kriging on deep peat
TESTEDStream water skill once neighbouring layers join, 870 unseen sites
SEALEDEach declared before scoring and published whichever way it falls
REGISTERVireo sealed-test register, October 2026. See every blind-tested result
05Launch offer · first ten sites
You have seen it read our ground. Now let it read yours.
Send one boundary and the decision you face. Get a decision summary, every layer on one grid, your records in context, an evidence register and a plan for where to probe or survey first.
A site, excluding VAT. Plus a £3,600 credit towards a Site Assessment (£25,000), valid 12 months.
- Your site confirmed before you order anything
- Up to ten of your own files, checked and placed on the grid
- Every figure with its range, source, date and licence
- Built to brief your intrusive survey, so fieldwork goes where it counts