Biodiversity, measured from space

See The Nature
In Your Supply Chain

Map biodiversity across your farms from satellite, turning land into data you can act on. Reward farmers, build resilience, and meet the EU's 10% target by 2030.

ODOS Tech habitat map of a supplier farm, classified from satellite
15.7%
Space for Nature
Productive grassland Semi-natural grassland Broadleaf woodland Hard surface
Carbery

Biodiversity Results

Enda Buckley
Enda Buckley Director of Sustainability, Carbery Group

“At Carbery, we wanted to better understand the biodiversity resource that exists across our supplier base and establish a meaningful baseline for the future.”

01 · Scale

We Mapped 90% of Carbery's Supplier Base

Carbery's first complete biodiversity baseline. We classified every supplier farm from satellite, turning scattered land into one clear, comparable picture of the region's nature.

980
Supplier farms assessed
64,800 ha
Farmland mapped
Carbery supplier farms mapped from above, habitats in colour Carbery supplier farms from above, before assessment
Before After · farms assessed

The colours represent Carbery's 980 dairy farms and their habitats mapped in West Cork, Ireland

The share of Carbery's land dedicated to nature, production and built area

The share of Carbery's land dedicated to nature, production, and built area.

02 · Result

Nearly A Fifth Is Space For Nature

Nature-rich habitat covers far more of the landscape than you would expect in productive dairy country. Clear proof that milk and nature can thrive side by side.

19.3%
Space for Nature
100%
Of Carbery's 4 cooperatives above the EU targetOf cooperatives above EU target
03 · Habitats

A Living Network Across The Land

Hedgerows, woodland, scrub and semi-natural grassland weave through the farms. The living network that keeps the landscape resilient and gives wildlife room to move.

4,780 km
Hedgerow mapped
6,458 ha
Semi-natural grassland
Carbery land cover habitats mapped from above
Hedgerow
Broadleaf woodland
Conifer woodland
Semi-natural grassland

The habitat classifications of one of Carbery's farms

Friesland Campina

Combining Dairy Production and Nature

Pablo Modernel is Program Manager, Farm Nature at Friesland Campina, helping farmers turn biodiversity research into practice at scale.

“Adding herbage species in the grassland gives us milk from one side and a benefit for insects on the other.”

Pablo Modernel Program Manager Farm Nature, Friesland Campina

What Is Space for Nature?

Space for Nature refers to the share of farmland set aside for natural or semi-natural habitats, like hedgerows, woodlands, ponds, and grasslands. These areas support pollinators, protect soil and water, and create corridors for wildlife. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 sets a target: 10% of all agricultural land should include these high-diversity features to help restore ecosystems and strengthen sustainability.

  • Share of farmland set aside for natural habitats.

  • Supports biodiversity and ecosystem health.

  • EU demands 10% of farmland dedicated to space for nature.

The EU 2030 Target

The European Union has set a target for having 10% of agricultural land under ‘High diversity landscape Features’ by 2030. This creates a clear standard: a farm with >10% habitat can be considered ‘Biodiverse’, meeting the EU Space for Nature target.

The Biodiversity Crisis

ODOS Tech — Biodiversity
Space for nature

Turn Every Farm's Land Into
A Biodiversity Score

Just tell us where to map. We match your farm boundaries using 50cm satellite imagery to extract parcels. This lets us identify key features like fields, forests, hedgerows, water bodies, and more, in minutes.

01

Just tell us where to map

Send us your farm list, your coordinates, or your cooperative's supplier database. We take it from there.

Tell us where to map your farms
02

We extract your farm boundaries

From 50cm satellite imagery, we extract every parcel, field, woodland, hedgerow, and water body. In minutes, not weeks.

Farm boundary extraction from satellite imagery
03

We classify every habitat

AI trained on 39,000+ real-world examples groups satellite pixels into shapes, fields, tree lines, water bodies, and classifies each one as a specific habitat type.

AI habitat classification from satellite imagery
04

A nature dataset you can act on

The data lands in your dashboard as a Space for Nature score per farm. Pay the farmers protecting nature today. Track who improves tomorrow. Build a supply chain that rewards what's already there.

Space for Nature score dashboard

See The Nature In Your Supply Chain

We’ll show you a credible biodiversity baseline, the farms already doing the work, and how every action your farmers take to protect or restore nature can be measured, rewarded, and reported.