About Us
Frontierra utilizes satellite monitoring to analyse and evaluate deforestation, reforestation and carbon dynamics in soft commodity supply chains.
We provide data, reports, and documentation to evidence compliance with legislation and offsetting requirements, assist in corporate sustainability reporting and meet consumer and shareholder expectations and climate change commitments.
We are working to enhance sustainable agriculture by collaborating with agricultural producers, cooperatives, traders, purchasers and financiers that wish to identify, quantify and report deforestation, reforestation and carbon dynamics within their supply chains.
Frontierra is a member of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TFND) Forum, a consultative grouping of institutional supporters that will make available global, cross-sector expertise to support the work of the TNFD.
The Team
Lewis Rattray
(BEnv, MEng)
Founder
GIS and Earth Observation expert with international professional experience in agriculture, environmental monitoring, capacity building and defence.
Brigette Reid
(BSc, MSc, MIEnvSc)
Founder
Internationally recognised ESG expert with a track record of innovation and collaboration across investment banking and consultancy on projects in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, USA and Latin America.
Eráclito Sousa Neto
(BSB, MSc, PhD)
Brazilian Regional Lead
Expert in carbon and nitrogen dynamics across Brazilian landscape with 20 years professional experience working on climate change, GHG measurements and environmental ecology.
Approach
Frontierra’s distinct methodology collates the best-available existing deforestation and reforestation data, together with state of the art optical and radar satellite imagery, machine learning and carbon dynamics assessments; ensuring complete and up-to-date coverage of the supply chain.
Forest Disclosure Report
Our reports deliver a succinct summary, suitable for non-technical readers, easy to understand and used to demonstrate compliance and adherence to commitments.
Insights include:
Deforestation and reforestation quantification
Carbon sequestration calculations
Risk categorization and analysis
Compliance and red-flag analysis
Deforestation & Fire Alerts
Frontierra provides an ongoing service of “real-time” alerts for early warning observations of fire and deforestation, using satellite imagery.
Deforestation between 2018 and 2021
Insights include:
Deforestation alerts at 8-14 day intervals
Fire alerts at 72 hour intervals
Burnt and deforested area mapping
Reforestation Monitoring
Frontierra’s reforestation monitoring system addresses the recurring issue of reforestation project failures.
Insights include:
Vegetation health
Irrigation requirements
Weather forecasts and warnings
Metrics and impact maps to demonstrate impact to stakeholders and investors
Sustainability Attribute Mapping
Understand where how your company's assets measure in regards to key sustainability attributes
Insight examples:
Water risk
Proximity to protected areas and indigenous lands
Biodiversity metrics
Traceability System Design & Implementation
Does your company current lack the information needed to analyse environmental impacts?
Services include:
Farm/plantation data collection
Database creation
Guidance to ensure positive impact on producers