Aerial of the Coringa-Godavari mangrove estuary

Blue carbon · Digital MRV · Spatial ledger

Find the mudflats worth restoring — before you write the PDD.

Site-finder is a parcel ledger for tidal wetland restoration. It serves mapped, eligibility-screened plots with baseline soil carbon and 20-year tCO₂e projections.

Deep dive into the engine Read the ledger

The problem

Most mangrove projects stall at site selection.

Teams draw polygons by hand, then discover the land was already vegetated, too small to credit, or missing a soil-carbon baseline. Months go into a PDD before anyone can say whether the plot is even eligible.

Site-finder publishes only parcels that already cleared a satellite screen: intertidal mudflat, ten years of non-forest history, and a mapped boundary. Each record carries the numbers a developer, verifier, or carbon desk needs next.

The live layer is Coringa-Godavari in Andhra Pradesh — thirty-three intertidal mudflat plots beside a sanctuary that holds about forty percent of the state’s mangrove cover. The ledger points at the unvegetated flats that can still be restored.

Viable plots

All intertidal mudflat

423 ha

Restoration area

5–56 ha per parcel

61,563

Baseline SOC (Mg C)

145.2 Mg C/ha

55,117

20-year tCO₂e

Modeled, not issued

How a parcel gets on the ledger

Four steps. Then the map is honest.

01
Map the intertidal zone
Polygons come from satellite pixels, not hand-drawn squares. Each feature carries geometry, pixel count, and a centroid you can open in Maps.
02
Screen for additionality
A plot stays only if it was non-forest for the prior ten years and still reads as mudflat on 2016 NDVI. You are not planting over existing canopy.
03
Attach the carbon ledger
Every parcel stores SOC density, baseline soil stock, and a 20-year tCO₂e projection, tagged to Verra VM0033 and BEE CCTS mangrove A/R.
04
Serve it as an API
List, filter by area or state, fetch one parcel, or pull the regional summary. Selected parcels import straight into a project.

A mapped inventory, not a pin drop

Parcels are real polygons. Click the boundary, inspect the stock, select the plot.

Eligibility already applied

Ten-year non-forest history and low NDVI are on the record. The hard screen is done before you open the map.

Carbon numbers sit on the geometry

SOC, area, and 20-year tCO₂e travel with the parcel. No separate spreadsheet to reconcile later.

The landscape

Coringa–Godavari, seen as the engine sees it.

Every image on this page was made for the ledger: estuary, mudflat, soil, satellite, restoration, and the instrument room behind the API.

Aerial of the Coringa-Godavari estuary where river meets the Bay of Bengal — Godavari–Bay of Bengal confluence

Intertidal mudflat at low tide, the land class of every live parcel — Intertidal mudflat

Dense mangrove canopy in the Coringa wildlife sanctuary — Adjacent mangrove canopy

Orbital view of a tropical river delta used as the screening surface — Earth observation layer

Aerial mudflats with faint survey parcel lines — Parcel geometry

Sediment cores used to reason about soil organic carbon — Soil organic carbon

Dark carbon-rich mangrove mud — 145.2 Mg C / ha density

Mangrove saplings being planted along a tidal channel — Restoration in the flats

Fishbone tidal channels cut through a mudflat — Hydrology first

A tidal creek winding through pneumatophores — Tidal exchange

Mangrove pneumatophore roots rising from wet mud — Breathing roots

Sunrise over the Bay of Bengal mangrove coastline — Bay of Bengal edge

Field verification with a GNSS rover on the mudflat — Ground truth

Hydrographic chart and calipers on a desk — Spatial ledger

Moonlit mangrove estuary — The night ledger

Operations room looking onto a coastal satellite map — Engine room

Methodology

VM0033 in the water. CCTS on the books.

Projections follow Verra VM0033 for tidal wetland and seagrass restoration, and are aligned with India’s BEE CCTS methodology for afforestation and reforestation of degraded mangrove habitats (BM FR05.001). Figures are modeled from the parcel ledger. They are not issued carbon credits and do not replace field plots, validation, or an Accredited Carbon Verification Agency.