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Fuel Intelligence Engine

The land, read continuously.

ClimaIQ fuses satellite, radar, and field measurements into an open, uncertainty-aware map of vegetation condition and change — explorable down to a single acre, with every value labeled by how it was known.

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The ClimaIQ Fuel Intelligence Explorer showing a 3D understory point-cloud reconstruction over Sierra Nevada, California, beside the terrain map with a drawn area of interest and the measured / inferred evidence panels.
Utah Coverage

The whole state, on one map.

Every DWR Range Trend monitoring site and Watershed Restoration Initiative project across Utah, with every satellite acquisition that actually observes them — the real footprints, not assumed coverage.

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Utah Coverage — every Range Trend site and WRI project across Utah with satellite coverage.
How it works

Two readings of the same land.

Condition and change are different questions. ClimaIQ answers each with the observation suited to it.

01 · CONDITION

The archive predicts where it stands.

Google's AlphaEarth embeddings — a learned summary of the accumulated satellite record — estimate current condition: bare ground, shrub and tree canopy, herbaceous cover, total vegetation. Wall-to-wall at 10 meter scale, including everywhere field crews can't reach, each prediction confined to a stated applicability domain.

02 · CHANGE

The radar catches what moved.

NASA's NISAR L-band radar, at 10 meter scale and revisiting every site every 12 days, detects change between field visits — treatment, fire, or moisture — on observations the annual record can't yet see.

Evidence

Measured against the field data.

Held-out predictive skill on Utah DWR Range Trend sites that were not used to train the models — condition estimated from Google's AlphaEarth embeddings, scored against the crew's actual measurements.

Three maps of a Utah tile showing predicted bare ground, shrub canopy, and herbaceous cover at 10 meter scale, wall to wall, with numbered Range Trend sites.
Predicted condition, wall to wall. Bare ground, shrub canopy, and herbaceous cover across a Utah tile at 10 meter scale, estimated from Google's AlphaEarth embeddings (2024 vintage). Masked areas fall outside the applicability domain; numbered points are DWR Range Trend monitoring sites.
Field measurand
Held-out R²
Evidence grade
Herbaceous cover
+0.73
demonstrated
Total vegetation
+0.71
demonstrated
Bare ground
+0.61
demonstrated
Tree canopy
+0.53
conditional
Shrub canopy
+0.46
conditional
Held-out validation at 10 meter scale, models trained 2018–2024, scored on a later season at sites excluded from training.
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2025 CAL FIRE Global Space-Based Data Challenge
Category winner — Data Consumption & Analytics
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Built entirely on public data
NISAR L-bandSentinel-1/2GEDI HLSEMITSMAP 3DEP lidarDWR Range TrendWRI projects
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