Work with Deep Time

The evidence gap is widening. Local Nature Recovery Strategies need habitat data at resolutions that don’t yet exist. Landscape Recovery schemes need defendable baselines. TNFD reporting demands place-based nature data that holds up to scrutiny. And heritage assets are deteriorating faster than they can be recorded.

Professional survey can’t cover the scale. Automated analysis can’t earn public trust. Compliance-driven consultation can’t build the community relationships that make projects stick.

What’s needed is evidence that is accurate, auditable and generated with the people who live in and care about these landscapes.

Deep Time mobilises trained citizen scientists to validate satellite and aerial imagery, producing landscape-scale habitat and heritage maps to a standard that supports policy, planning, and investment decisions.

We manage the full pipeline – recruiting and training participants, running structured mapping missions through our browser-based platform, applying three-tier quality assurance, and delivering validated evidence packages ready for use.

Citizen-generated data through Deep Time consistently achieves 84-94% accuracy against professional baselines, independently validated by Natural England through the National Capital and Ecosystem Assessment programme.

This goes beyond consultation. It’s a proven methodology for generating trusted evidence while building lasting community connection to the landscapes you manage.

• Validated evidence packages. Habitat and heritage maps at landscape scale, classified to UKHab standards, with full QA documentation and audit trail – ready to support LNRS evidence bases, BNG assessments, Landscape Recovery monitoring and TNFD reporting.
• A mobilised community. Trained local volunteers with real skills and genuine investment in your landscape. Participants consistently report increased environmental awareness and lasting behaviour change. Measurable social value, not a tick-box exercise.
• An auditable methodology. Every data point is traceable through a three-tier QA process – volunteer training, Mission Leader review and expert oversight – producing evidence you can defend to regulators, funders and the public.
• Evidence that deepens over time. Deep Time missions can be repeated, and communities grow with each one – giving you a longitudinal evidence base that tracks how landscapes are changing, not a one-off snapshot.

• Over 6,500 trained citizen scientists
• 9 missions completed
• 58,000+ habitat polygons mapped across 5,300 km²
• 18,000+ archaeological features identified
• Validated by Natural England, and proven on nationally significant programmes including HS2
• Delivered for the National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, National Landscapes and the NCEA programme

Deep Time works with organisations that carry landscape-scale responsibilities and need better evidence and stronger community relationships:

• LNRS bodies building their evidence base
• Landscape Recovery schemes requiring baseline and monitoring data
• National Landscapes and National Parks managing natural and cultural heritage at scale
• Corporate landholders meeting TNFD, BNG, or social value obligations
• Infrastructure programmes needing defensible environmental evidence and genuine public engagement