How Verdex works
Verdex screens farm plots against the EU Deforestation Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 and produces an auditable evidence packet you can use when preparing your due-diligence statement. The test is whether land was deforested after 31 December 2020.
You can try it with sample data right now — no account needed.
Bring your plots
Drop a GeoJSON FeatureCollection onto the left panel, or click to browse. Polygons are used as-is; points are accepted too and buffered into a circular plot using the claimed_area_ha property.
Every plot passes through intake quality control first, so problems surface before they can quietly distort a verdict.
Flags self-intersecting rings, implausible areas, duplicate ids and points that had to be buffered. Rejected plots are marked rather than silently dropped.
Finds plots that overlap each other — usually double-registered farms, which inflate the volume a supply base appears to support.
Restrict the run to a drawn region when you only care about one district or catchment.
Extra properties (supplier, variety, co-op number) are carried through to the results and exports untouched.
Choose what counts as forest
“Deforestation” depends on where you draw the line for forest, and the regulation does not fix a single threshold. Verdex makes the choice explicit and records it in the evidence, so an auditor can see which definition produced the verdict.
Trees ≥5 m, ≥10% canopy, minimum patch 0.5 ha — the FAO Forest Resource Assessment definition EUDR Art. 2(6) defers to for non-primary forest.
Hansen ≥30% or ≥10% canopy, and an EUDR-strict primary-forest variant. Re-run the same plots under a different definition to see how sensitive a verdict is.
Run the analysis
Plots are processed in batches against pre-computed satellite tile packs, so a few thousand plots take seconds rather than hours. Progress streams live — you can watch plots colour in on the map as they are decided.
Hansen Global Forest Change, JRC Tropical Moist Forest, ESA WorldCover, UMD primary humid tropical forest and JAXA PALSAR are combined, so a verdict never rests on one dataset.
Toggle each source on the map to see the evidence behind a verdict yourself, rather than taking the number on trust.
Read the verdicts
Every plot lands in one of four states, shown on the map and in the summary: no risk, medium risk, non-negligible risk, or rejected at intake. Non-negligible means the plot should not be placed on the EU market without remediation.
Click any plot for its forest baseline, hectares lost, the year loss occurred, and which sensors saw it.
Causality analysis separates wildfire, urban expansion, mining and commodity conversion. It matters: recovered wildfire can reduce EUDR risk, conversion to commodity does not.
Overlap with protected areas (WDPA) and mining concessions, plus a structured view of Art. 2(40) legality categories.
Translates at-risk volume into the commercial exposure it represents, so the finding can be prioritised rather than merely noted.
Act on what you find
A screening is only useful if it changes what you ship. The results view is built around the decision, not the dataset.
Concrete next steps for the plots that failed — drop, remediate, or gather evidence — rather than a raw list.
Rolls plot verdicts up to the supplier who sold you the volume, which is the level you can actually act on.
Move between region, district, society, farmer and plot to find where the risk is concentrated.
Model what dropping the failing plots does to your shippable volume before you commit to it.
Export the evidence
Everything is downloadable, because a due-diligence statement has to be defensible months later — and the underlying satellite data changes over time.
One row per plot with its verdict, area, loss and reasons — the working file for your compliance team.
A board-ready PDF or PowerPoint of the same result, for people who will not open a CSV.
A template to collect supplier attestations, which you upload back so the legality assessment reflects your own documents.
Results record which data versions produced them, so a verdict can be reproduced and defended rather than re-argued.
Keep it current
A plot that was clear last season may not be clear now. With an account, past analyses stay available and you can watch plots for change rather than re-checking by hand.
Every past run stays retrievable with its results and exports intact.
Portfolio view across runs — what is at risk right now, and what changed.
Watch a plot set and get alerted when new loss appears, instead of discovering it at shipment time.
Send a supplier a secure link to submit their own plots and documents, with no account needed on their side.
What Verdex does not do
Verdex produces evidence to support your due-diligence statement — it does not file that statement for you, and it is not legal advice. Satellite screening establishes whether forest loss occurred on a plot; it cannot by itself prove legal title or land tenure, which is why the legality workbook exists for your own documentation. A verdict reflects the forest definition you chose, which is recorded alongside it.