Products

Designed and developed by Eco-index, our digital products are the engine behind our impact — and they’re available to support your mahi too.

We’ve developed a suite of self-service digital products that put critical data and interdisciplinary science at your fingertips. Use them to enhance your in-house analysis, or let our data scientists apply them to your area of interest and deliver tailored insights in a clear, actionable report.

Options include:

  • Purchase products off the shelf

  • Work with our Data Scientists to build in custom product features that meet your needs

Empowering you to:

Make faster, smarter decisions for nature, climate, and community.

Navigator & Navigator X

Sophisticated mapping tools that empower you to find the best bang-for-buck locations to undertake ecosystem reconstruction, based on your own priorities.

Use it for: nature investment/restoration planning, funding application assessments, catchment collaboration.

Available as: GIS layers and/or online mapping tool, summary metrics report

Pricing:
Navigator: $6k base cost + area fee
Navigator X: $17k base cost + area fee + $3k annual hosting fee
Navigator & Navigator X bundle: $20k base cost + area fee + $3k annual hosting fee

Free & open: Navigator X for Waitaha/Canterbury

More detail: Digital Product Guide (Pg 12)
Full detail: Product Deep Dive (Pg 9)

Land Cover Snapshot
- FREE & OPEN

Mapping of Mature Ecosystems, Regenerating Ecosystems, Reconstruction Opportunity & Built-up or Transport Areas (as of 2018)

Use it for: understanding catchment-scale ecosystem patterns and opportunities for ecosystem reconstruction, biodiversity-baselining and collaborative planning.

Available as: GIS layer & summary metrics report

Accessible as FREE Digital Public Good via:

More detail: Digital Product Guide (Pg 7)
Full detail: Product Deep Dive (Pg 5)

Ecosystem Services Valuer

Monetary valuation of 40+ ecosystem services for each different ecosystem in Aotearoa NZ, based on international approaches. Understand the value provided by either existing or potential native ecosystems.

Use it for: understanding and communicating the value of nature, cost:benefit analyses.

Available as: GIS layers & summary metrics report

Pricing: $3k base cost + area fee

More detail: Digital Product Guide (Pg 17)
Full detail: Product Deep Dive (Pg 22)

Free & Open:

Ecosystem Projector
- FREE & OPEN

Mapping of what Aotearoa New Zealand would look like without human-induced land modification.

Use it for: understanding which native ecosystems could be suitable for reconstruction in your area of interest.

Available as: GIS layer & summary metrics report

Accessible as FREE Digital Public Good via:

More detail: Digital Product Guide (Pg 9)
Full detail: Product Deep Dive (Pg 7)

Product showcase:
Observer

Observer is an AI-driven remote detection model that utilises multi-sensor satellite and remote sensing data to differentiate native forest from other land cover, including exotic forest.

Observer identifies and outlines native forest patches in your landscape and can be deployed on demand for up-to-date monitoring. To ensure the highest accuracy possible, Eco-index offers expert validation of Observer’s detections by our in-house Data Scientists and Ecologists as well as optional ground-truthing input from your own team. The resulting GIS layers and key native forest metrics provide you with insights to boost your biodiversity planning and reporting.

Observer:

  • is designed with advanced AI architecture, employing a UNET neural network model that digests multispectral inputs and contextual land patterns - enabling more nuanced, pixel-level classification than traditional methods.

  • model training and processing is securely hosted on Eco-index servers within New Zealand — safeguarding data sovereignty and privacy.

  • utilises advanced multi-sensor satellite intelligence by harnessing a powerful stack of imagery — including PlanetScope’s 8-band data, Sentinel-1 radar, and the NZ Digital Elevation Model.

  • has been trained using aggregated LCDB classes like Indigenous Forest, Broadleaf Hardwoods, and Mānuka/Kānuka.

  • offers a scalable, transparent, and future-ready solution for understanding Aotearoa’s native forest landscapes.

Use it for: identifying, monitoring, reporting and verifying existing native forest
Available as: GIS layers & summary metric report
Pricing: $15k base cost + area fee

We are all about transparency: GitHub repository for Observer technical methods.

To discuss how Observer can help achieve your monitoring, reporting and verification goals please get in touch:

More Digital Products:

Reconstruction & Maintenance Costings - FREE & OPEN

Costings for planting, fencing, early plant care, fence maintenance & non-native plant and animal control - mapped for each different ecosystem type.

Use it for: estimating project costs, cost:benefit analyses.

Available as: GIS layers & summary metric report

Accessible as FREE Digital Public Good via:

More detail: Digital Product Guide (Pg 18)
Full detail: Product Deep Dive (Pg 28)