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Peatland monitoring

Peato is the app for people who work on peatland. See what is changing on your land, get an alert when it matters, go and look, act, and measure what changed.

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WarningWater level above target rangePedja Meadow · 42 min ago
In range
−8.0cm
Water table, average of monitored fields

Peatlands cover about 3% of the world's land and hold twice as much carbon as all its forests.1 Drained, that carbon escapes. Kept wet, it stays, and the land can still grow something useful.2 You can't manage what you can't see.

1 World Economic Forum, on peatlands and carbon 2 Greifswald Mire Centre, definition of paludiculture

The management loop

01/ 05

Monitor

Water, vegetation and temperature for every field in one view, against the target band you set. Every reading says where it came from.

  • Trends over 7, 30 and 90 days
  • Sensor, remote and manual data kept apart

Detect

Plain, rule-based alerts: a water level outside your own target, or a device that stopped reporting. No black box and no guessed cause.

  • Info, Watch, Warning, Critical
  • Acknowledge, resolve, or start an inspection

Inspect

Open the alert, find the place, go and look. Record what you see: water, vegetation, infrastructure and notes, linked to the field.

  • Structured field observations
  • Follow-up flagged when needed

Act

Plan an intervention with a reason, an expected outcome and a follow-up date. Mark it started and completed. The history stays with the field.

  • Planned, in progress, completed
  • Linked to the alert that started it

Measure

Log the reading afterwards. Peato puts before and after side by side, shows the trend, and keeps observation separate from cause.

  • Before, after and target together
  • Then the next cycle begins
Trend vs targetOne chart, one range, no guessing.
Honest alertsTwo rules, both explainable.
Written downThe visit becomes a record.
Work with a reasonTied to an alert and a goal.
−4 cm → −12 cmAn observation, not a verdict.

The water table

Everything is a question of depth.

Peat is mostly preserved by water. Too dry and it oxidises and sinks. Too wet and the land stops being workable. The target is somewhere in between, and it is different on every site.

−13cm below ground
In target range

Below target. The surface is drying, and this is where Peato raises a watch or warning so someone can go and check the water-control structures.

In the target band. This is what the loop is for: a measured level, a range you chose, and a record of what you did to keep it there.

Above target. Too close to the surface for the work planned. The alert points to the field, the reading and the next step.

Target bands are set per site, with scientific input.

Many signals, one field

Bring every observation into the same place.

Satellite, maps, weather, sensors and a person with a notebook all see something different. Peato attaches each to the field, keeps its source visible, and never pretends they measure the same thing.

Maps and imageryOfficial orthophoto and satellite base maps, field boundaries you draw.
In the app
Manual observationsInspections, notes and measurements, with who, when and where.
In the app
Field devicesWater, soil and climate nodes report through a field hub.
Optical satelliteVegetation and surface change across the field.
Radar (SAR)Surface wetness signals through cloud.
WeatherRain and temperature context for interpreting a change.

Peatlands

Mire by mire.

Built around real land: official orthophoto where available, satellite base maps, field boundaries you draw, and a home screen that follows the region of your main field.

Endla peatland at sunrise
Emajõe Suursoo peatland
Alutaguse peatland in morning mist
Kõrvemaa peatland
Soomaa peatland
Coastal peatland
Global

Every peatland.

Each region brings its own data, land types and rules. Peato is built to adapt to them.

Paludiculture

Wet land that still works.

Rewetting does not have to mean giving up the land. Paludiculture is farming on wet and rewetted peat, with crops that like the water. Peato is built to help the people doing it keep the water where it should be.

“The productive land use of wet and rewetted peatlands that preserves the peat soil.”Greifswald Mire Centre, definition of paludiculture
Common reedBuilding materials, fibres
CattailInsulation, fibres, fodder
Sphagnum mossGrowing media, raw material
Reed canary grassFuel, fibres, fodder
SedgesFodder, biomass
Black alderTimber on wet soils

Hardware

Sensors designed for peat.

Four devices: a water node, a soil pin, a climate node and a field hub that collects and forwards their data. The app pairs and tracks them for you.

Peato Water node
Peato Water

Water-table depth, in cm below ground.
Peato Soil pin
Peato Soil

Soil and peat moisture and temperature.
Peato Climate node
Peato Climate

Local air temperature and humidity.
Peato Hub
Peato Hub

Local collection and store-and-forward.

Where we are

Where Peato is, and what is next.

Built

In the app today

  • Fields: draw boundaries on official imagery, edit, persist
  • Insights, alerts, inspections, interventions, activity history
  • Reports for a field or the whole workspace
  • Accounts, sync and a Django and PostGIS backend
  • Android, iOS and web, in nine languages
Devices

Monitoring

  • Device pairing, readings, battery and signal
  • Water, soil and climate nodes through a field hub
  • Sources shown wherever a number appears, including reports
  • Water-table depth always in cm below ground
Next

Pilots and science

  • Pilot sites, 8 to 12 weeks each
  • Indicators and thresholds set with peatland scientists
  • Field validation of sensors and remote sensing
  • Thresholds you control, with scientific input

Try it. Then tell us what is wrong.

Put your peatland on the map.

Install the Android app or open the web app, draw a field, and walk the loop. Run a pilot with us if you manage peatland.

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