Planning a large-scale restoration project in Ireland?
LandHQ ranks every candidate site across your catchment against your objectives, so you can see where your effort goes furthest. Ask in plain words, move a slider, and the map re-ranks in seconds.
Scope
Applies to the map, the ranking and the analytics
Where
Connectivity
Water
Designations & birds
Ancient woodland
Deer
Access & ownership
How it works
- 1Set the scope
Pick an area, your objectives and the rules that apply.
- 2See the ranking
Every site across the area, scored and explained.
- 3Check the sites
What's on site, what's nearby, what it could become.
- 4Commit
Choose your sites. The rest re-score around them.
Back to 1, in seconds. Change a weight, an area or a site, and the whole picture updates.
The groundwork is already done.
Most projects start by finding, cleaning and correcting the data themselves, then map it once. LandHQ starts where they finish.
| The usual way | With LandHQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Data | Track down dozens of datasets. Reconcile them. Check every licence. | Irish public data already joined, cleaned and licence-checked. |
| Corrections | Out-of-date land cover slips through unnoticed. | Woodland layers corrected against newer records. |
| Rules | Forestry and designation rules checked by hand, site by site. | Applied first, everywhere. Every exclusion says why. |
| Coverage | The sites someone had time to look at. | Every stand, and every 20 m of open ground. |
| Your own data | Merged by hand, once, for one report. | Imported once, used in every ranking after. |
| Questions | Learn GIS, or brief someone who knows it. | Ask in plain words, or move a slider. |
| Changing your mind | Back to the desk. Weeks per round of maps. | Seconds. The map re-ranks. |
| Analytics | A spreadsheet of totals. | Charts and map summaries by sub-catchment, townland or any area. |
| Projects | Folders, emails and a site list in a spreadsheet. | Sites, statuses and lists in one shared workspace. In development |
| Feedback loop | A finished report. Decisions made after it don't change it. | Commit a site and the rest re-score around it. |
| Trust | A map and a method note. | Every score breaks into parts, sources and a confidence level. |
| Staying current | A snapshot from the day it was made. | Updated as new data is published. |
| Cost | Staff time or day rates, again for every change. | A set-up fee and a yearly subscription. See below. |
What it costs
Your area loaded, its data assembled, corrected and checked.
Unlimited use for your team, with data updates and new features.
Your own records imported, or a bespoke analysis built.
What's inside
Live Initial release In progress Planned
Ask in plain words Live
Type a question. The map, filters and ranking follow.
Objectives and weights Live
Pick several objectives. Set weights and thresholds. You decide; the tool computes.
Areas of interest Live
Catchment, sub-catchment, sub-basin, townlands, county, or draw your own.
Native woodland Live
- Where it is, on a corrected layer
- Where to protect
- Where to plant
- Corridors between woods
Connectivity Live
Corridors built from published landscape-ecology research, not straight lines.
Analytics Live
Land use and potential, grouped by sub-catchment, sub-basin, townland or any area you draw.
Forestry scheme potential Live
Which Forest Service schemes each site meets the basic criteria for, and the benefit: FT1, FT10, RADS, NWCS, CRR, WIS-CCF and more.
Water Initial release
River network, riparian buffers and position on the flow path.
Deer Initial release
Habitat suitability, pressure on woods, and how easy ground is to manage.
CCF suitability Live
Each conifer stand screened for continuous cover conversion: windthrow, soil, aspect and more.
Your data, in and out Initial release
Add your records, sites and local knowledge; they feed the ranking. Export maps, lists and every figure with its source.
Change over time In progress
Land-use change, clearance and natural regeneration, year on year.
Hedgerows, scrub, remnant woods, soils, designations.
Woods within reach, rivers downstream, protected sites around.
How much more this ground could carry than it does today.
Built to be checked
Hard constraints filter before anything is ranked.
Every score splits into parts, each with a source.
You see what's measured, what's inferred, and what's unknown.
Isolated per organisation. Never shared. Export or delete it any time.
See it on your catchment.
A 30-minute walkthrough on ground you know.