EUDR Compliance

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

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

We have created a user-friendly portal that allows 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 ha).

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

We use 0.5 m-resolution imagery because the EUDR requires land use to be assessed (i.e., the specific crop being grown), not just evidence of deforestation. Freely available 10 m imagery permits the detection of large-scale deforestation but is insufficiently granular to accurately assess crop type for EUDR purposes. Imagery at 30 m (Landsat) and 10 m (Copernicus) resolution can be used to assess the “green-ness” of an image, but if used alone for EUDR purposes, it is likely to generate significant false positives. That is, coffee and cocoa farms that were not deforested may be incorrectly identified as having undertaken deforestation and excluded from European markets.