Dr Hugh Graham, Founder & Head of Geospatial Science

Writing

The belian.earth app: a tree planting project plot in red with lines to its matched control plots, over the stocking index and satellite imagery, and a chart of the plot's stocking index against the weighted mean of its controls

Announcement28 October 2026

belian.earth vetted by Verra as a VM0047 Data Service Provider

Verra has vetted belian.earth as a Data Service Provider for VM0047, the methodology for tree planting projects. What that means for a developer, what we do differently, and what a view costs.

Searching for candidate VM0047 reference areas across Rondônia, Brazil

Opinion4 May 2026

VM0047's brave call is your ARR project's defining moment

VM0047 locks the developer's matched reference areas at validation and keeps them fixed for the full crediting period. That single choice defines your ARR project's baseline for decades.

Foundation model embeddings visualised across forest and coastal land use change gradients

Blog7 April 2026

ML4EO 2026: Why Pixels Aren't Enough for Carbon Market Integrity

We're sponsoring ML4EO again this year. Here's why the machine learning for earth observation community matters for carbon markets, and what it still gets wrong about pixels.

Carbon baseline forest canopy: tropical forest viewed from above

Opinion10 March 2026

The carbon baseline problem nobody wants to talk about

The carbon market has an integrity problem. But while the industry obsesses over which biomass map to trust, the real uncertainty is in the carbon baseline.

Announcement13 January 2026

belian.earth receives ESA funding to advance forest carbon baseline methods

belian.earth has been awarded funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) for our project 'Conservation Integrity: Geo-AI powered transparency for Nature-Based Solutions.'

Dipterocarp seedlings in a restoration nursery for forest carbon projects in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Research8 January 2026

Why Forest Restoration Projects Need Robust Counterfactual Baselines

Every forest carbon project depends on a counterfactual baseline to demonstrate its impact. Whether avoiding deforestation or restoring degraded land, the underlying question is the same: what would have happened without the intervention?