BNG Monitoring — The Gap No One Fills

BNG requires 30-year habitat monitoring. Existing tools cover paperwork OR satellite — not the full picture. No one provides community ground-truth.

Verna

Cohort 19

BNG case management. Tracks planning conditions, deadlines, and compliance paperwork for 100+ LPAs.

Missing: No satellite data. No habitat condition monitoring. No environmental intelligence whatsoever. Processes paperwork, not ecology.

Linckia

Cohort 21

Field survey tool for professional ecologists. Built on ESRI/ArcGIS. Digitises existing manual workflows.

Missing: No satellite layer. No community data. Requires £1,200+/user ESRI licence. Cannot scale beyond professional ecologists.

BNGAI

US-backed

Satellite-based habitat analysis using AI. Automated mapping from remote sensing data.

Missing: No ground-truth verification. No community layer. Satellite alone cannot assess habitat condition at the detail BNG requires.

What BNG Monitor uniquely provides

Community ground-truth

Trained volunteers submit structured habitat condition data — stress, dieback, species health. The evidence layer no satellite or desk assessment can replicate.

Three-layer fusion

Satellite detects change, community verifies on the ground, OS provides the authoritative spatial framework. AI reconciles all three into actionable scores.

Council-affordable

£250/month vs. £10,000/yr (Verna) or £300–800/day (consultants). Built on serverless infrastructure costing <£40/month to run nationally.

30-year capable

BNG obligations last decades. Automated satellite monitoring + growing community data network means the system improves with every year of operation.

"The Committee cannot evaluate progress against urban greening targets because there is no systematic monitoring of urban habitats in England."

— Climate Change Committee report to Parliament, 2025

The gap no one fills