Step inside a nature digital twin, in 3D, in your browser.

The Vireo environmental digital twin as a world you can turn in your hands: 6.25 million LiDAR heights for a single upland square, and a national park block with every river, protected site and building, all on one grid and one set of evidence rules.

Cut the cubeSlice through the land to see the peat body under the moor, with the measured probes it is built on.

Watch the ground movePlay satellite radar ground motion from 2020 to 2024 and see the moor rise and fall with the seasons.

Inspect any cellClick the land for its height, slope, peat, nearest evidence and ground motion, each marked measured or modelled.

See where it is sureThe evidence layer shows the distance from every cell to measured ground truth, and where the next survey should go.

One twin, any scaleSwitch from a 5 km square to a 20 km national park block: habitat, protected site condition, water and 7,500 buildings.

Measure and shareDraw a profile across the land, then share the exact view or save a snapshot.

See your land as a twin About the environmental digital twin

What is the Nature Twin Explorer?

A three dimensional view of the Vireo environmental digital twin that runs in your browser. It holds a 5 km upland square at 2 m and a 20 by 10 km block of a national park at 5 m, with satellite imagery, water, protected sites, buildings, measured peat probes and satellite ground motion on one grid.

What can I do in it?

Turn and zoom the land, switch the surface between satellite, terrain, slope, peat depth, evidence, habitat and protected site condition, cut a section through the cube to see the peat body below the moor, play ground motion from 2020 to 2024, inspect any 10 m cell and measure distance and height along a profile.

Which parts are measured and which are modelled?

Terrain, water, buildings, roads, habitat, protected sites, peat probes and ground motion are measured, each with its source and licence. Slope is derived from the terrain. The peat body is modelled and illustrative, and is labelled so wherever it appears.

Can Vireo build a twin of my land?

Yes. The same grid and the same evidence rules run from a single field to a whole nation. Send the boundary and the decision it serves, and we confirm the data covers your land before anything is agreed.

Sources: Environment Agency LiDAR Composite DTM 1 m, OGL v3.0. Contains OS data, Crown copyright and database right 2026, OGL v3.0. Natural England peat depth records and SSSI unit condition, OGL v3.0. European Ground Motion Service, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, EU. Copernicus Sentinel-2 data. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021, CC BY 4.0. The peat body is modelled and illustrative. Places are shown as examples of scale, not client sites.