EUDR Compliance

Enveritas provides you with the assurance that your products are free of deforestation. Our approach is calibrated to the EUDR criteria, and relies on genuinely high resolution satellite imagery (0.5m) combined with AI and extensive ground truthing.

Our approach dramatically reduces the false positive which plague many systems. Our field teams can further assess edge cases and disputes with rapid on-farm visits to gather supporting evidence.

We have created a user-friendly portal to allow users submit a list of geolocated production plots where the consignment product was grown in the form of GPS points (or polygons if the plot is larger than 4 hectares).

1. We check your list for common errors such as duplicated or improperly formatted points and overlapping polygons to assure it can be assessed by and uploaded to the EU system.
2. Enveritas computes the geographical intersection between valid geolocated plots and non-compliant deforested areas identified by our model.
3. If plots and non-compliant areas do not overlap, the list is declared deforestation-free per Enveritas' Deforestation Detection model and can be used to issue due diligence materials under our system.

We use 0.5 m resolution imagery because the EUDR guidelines require land use to be assessed (i.e., individual crop) and not just evidence of deforestation. 10m imagery, freely available, permits the detection of large-scale deforestation, but is insufficiently granular to accurately assess crop type for EUDR purposes. 30m (landsat) and 10m (Copernicus) imagery can be used to assess “green-ness” of an image, but if used alone for EUDR purposes lead to significant “False positives” will result. That is, coffee and cocoa farms that were not deforested are likely to be incorrectly identified as undertaking deforestation and being banned from European markets.