Field intelligence

The environmental context behind the work.

Four tools we use for environmental context: a live soil profile for any point on Earth, daily NASA satellite imagery you can scrub through time, the public wildfire-camera network covering the Malibu region, and an educational simulation of how fungal networks support forest recovery.

These are external public-data feeds and educational tools, provided for environmental context. They are not Biogeotechnics monitoring systems, company results, or service capabilities. Biogeotechnics is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operating any of the organizations or networks whose public data appears on this page.

01 — Soil intelligence · live

Read the ground, anywhere on Earth.

Click any point on the map, or pick a place, to pull a live soil profile from ISRIC SoilGrids: organic carbon, texture, pH, nitrogen, and more.

Click land anywhere, or choose a location. Sample depth 0–5 cm.

— select a location — Awaiting a point
g/kg Soil organic carbon
Sand Silt Clay
Texture —
pH (H₂O)
Nitrogen · g/kg
Bulk density · g/cm³
CEC · cmol(c)/kg
Live conditions
Temp °C
Humidity %
Wind km/h
US AQI
Elevation m
Records · GBIF
Species observed nearby
Select a location…
Sources: SoilGrids · Open-Meteo · GBIF — external open data Ready
02 — Satellite time machine

See the land change, day by day.

Daily global imagery from NASA. Switch layers — true colour, fire and burn scars, land-surface temperature — then drag the timeline or press play to watch a region evolve over the last three months.

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Imagery: NASA EOSDIS GIBS · MODIS / VIIRS — external open data, roughly 1–2 day lag. True colour
03 — Live cameras · ALERTCalifornia

Eyes on the Malibu region, right now.

Live wildfire-camera frames from the ALERTCalifornia network for Los Angeles and Ventura counties — the terrain our first California program targets. Frames refresh continuously; open any camera for the official viewer.

Loading live cameras… Cameras courtesy of ALERTCalifornia · UC San Diego — via ArcGIS Living Atlas

These are external public-safety cameras operated by ALERTCalifornia, not Biogeotechnics cameras. Frames are shown for situational context only. Automated fire and smoke detection is performed by ALERTCalifornia’s own systems and is neither implied nor performed here.

04 — Interactive · the living soil

Build a forest from the ground up.

Drag a fungal species into the soil and watch the underground network grow. An educational simulation of how fungi support forest resilience. It does not claim that fungi alone prevent wildfire.

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Your forest reached full resilience.

Educational simulation · not company results

Fungal species

Drag a card onto the soil to plant it. Each species contributes differently to water, roots, carbon, biodiversity and disease resistance. Some pairs work better together.

National incident data

Active wildfire incidents, mapped live.

The national incident map is on the main site, next to the problem it illustrates.

Open the live wildfire map