Compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires operators to demonstrate that commodities are deforestation-free. Orbify supports this requirement through a conservative, transparent geospatial assessment focused specifically on Article 3(a) of the regulation.
Orbify’s automated compliance score evaluates only the deforestation-free requirement. It does not assess legality, land tenure, or social safeguards, which must be addressed separately as part of broader due diligence.
The compliance score is derived from three deforestation-specific datasets:
Forest cover in 2020
Deforestation since 2020
Deforestation alerts
Forest cover baseline (December 2020)
Orbify first establishes whether forest cover existed within the plot boundaries as of December 2020, which is the EUDR cut-off date.
Annual deforestation analysis
If forest cover is present, Orbify evaluates whether deforestation has occurred within that forest area from 2020 up to the end of the most recent complete year. Annual datasets are used because they allow full verification across all satellite imagery available for that year, increasing confidence in the results.
Recent deforestation alerts
Finally, Orbify assesses deforestation alerts between the end of the latest annual dataset and the present day to capture very recent activity.
Each of these steps produces an individual result and explanation, ensuring transparency in how the final compliance outcome is reached.
Likely compliant
No forest cover detected in December 2020
Stable forest cover maintained since 2020
Likely non-compliant
Forest loss detected since December 2020
Forest degradation detected since December 2020 (timber only)
Both deforestation and degradation detected since 2020 (timber only)
Recommended manual inspection
Forest loss below 1% of the plot’s forest area
Deforestation alerts detected after the annual dataset cut-off date
Only these deforestation-related findings influence the final compliance score.
