Sustainable land use planning

Since a couple of years, Auroville Consulting has been looking for scalable solutions for climate action. One of the ones they have developed is a carbon converter which anybody can use to calculate their transport emissions, with an added option to plant trees and offset the same.

Last month they launched LiLa, a tool that conducts geospatial analysis to help optimize sustainable land-use planning. It uses satellite imagery, AI & GIS mapping which creates land-cover maps at high spatial resolution for any area of interest; detects degraded/unused lands; and evaluates these lands in regards to climate mitigation and adaptation interventions such as sustainable water management, reforestation and solar energy generation.

Using this tool, recently they were able to complete a land-suitability assessment for distributed solar energy resources for Mayiladuthurai District in Tamil Nadu.