How it works
A peatland project, step by step
Ardail Moss is a made-up peatland project. Scroll to follow it from the first survey to the restoration plan. The figures are worked out by the platform’s Peatland Code calculator.
Step 01
Survey the bog
Drone imagery, lidar point clouds and hagg and gully surveys load onto the project’s map, alongside the peat depth survey. Grips, haggs, gullies and pools are there to see before the condition assessment starts.
Lidar pass in 12 flight lines, 128,406,112 returns. Peat depth: 89 probes, 6 under 50 cm.
Step 02
Map its condition
Each assessment unit takes a condition category from the Field Protocol. Drained units run 30 m either side of every grip, the burn keeps its 30 m exclusion zone, shallow peat comes out, and the units add up to the net area.
- Actively eroding: hagg/gully: 9.7 ha
- Actively eroding: flat bare: 1.9 ha
- Drained: artificial: 24.0 ha
- Modified: 30.0 ha
- Near natural: 9.9 ha
- Net area: 75.5 ha
- Shallow peat and open water, excluded: 3.1 ha
Step 03
Plan the restoration
Dams, reprofiling and revegetation are drawn on the map, and the Carbon Costs Calculator reads them from there. The Peatland Code calculator moves each unit to its restored condition and works out the Pending Issuance Units. Restoration validation and each verification run from the same project.
From the map: 322 peat dams, 5.2 km of reprofiling and 1.9 ha of revegetation. Drained to rewetted modified bog: 3.32 to 0.32 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per hectare per year. Actively eroding to revegetated: 17.72 to 3.42. 18,094 Pending Issuance Units over 100 years.
Woodland Carbon Code projects run on the same platform.
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Book a deep dive with the team. Code administrators, validators and developers can also join the Pioneer programme for previews and early access.