Is life thriving here?
Let the place answer.

The life oracle is an open standard and open software that reads how a piece of land is doing from three cheap streams: satellite, a sound recorder and a soil probe. Seven readings, one verdict, no scheduled sampling. Built so that farmers, funders, verifiers and software agents can all check the same truth.

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places

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satellite observations

devices

Version 0.1. Satellite stream live for every registered place (Sentinel-2, 2019 to now). Sound and soil streams accept data today; their readings turn from unknown to a direction after the first full year.

Satellite

Free, every five days, archive back to 2017. Greenness, season length, bare-soil days, and how fast a place recovered from the droughts of 2018, 2020 and 2022. Computed here from Copernicus Sentinel-2 for any polygon on Earth.

Sound recorder

One box per ~20 hectares, installed once. Birds and bats are the insect sensor; breeding song is the renewal signal; tractor noise is the management signal. Detections arrive through one API call.

Soil probe

One probe per field, installed once. Moisture and temperature give the rate at which the soil is breathing. LoRaWAN uplinks from The Things Network land here through a webhook.