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Basodata: the whole forest, as one system
Hazi is one of the most advanced forestry organizations in the world, and it set out to manage every forest in the Basque Country as a single system. The data existed; the shared representation did not. It lived across agencies, landowners, and satellites that had never been brought into one language. Hazi decided to close that gap.
01 The problem
A forest is administered by many hands at once: agencies, private owners, researchers, each holding its own field data in its own language. Even the best-run organization answers a single question about the territory by assembling it across institutions, every time, over months. Hazi wanted to operate faster than the territory could be read by hand.
02 The system
Basodata: a public forest layer built on the Engine. Satellite observation, terrain and species data, ownership records, and each actor's field data fuse into one representation of every stand in the Basque Country, under a shared ontology. The forest is queried as a single system, and every actor works against the same live state of the territory.
03 The outcome
Hazi now manages the region's forest against one live model. Permits, research, and land decisions that depended on manual cross-referencing resolve in [days]. The organization that already set the standard now runs it on a system built for the scale of the whole territory.
- 722K ha of forest under one live model
- 500+ data sources and actors integrated into one ontology
- 1 day Between updates across the whole forest
