We measure what’s left when the alarm goes quiet.
A forest is cleared, an optical satellite raises the alarm — then forgets. Years later the loss is settled by people who have nothing left to check. Multilook is the measurement in that gap.
We read the standing structure of a forest directly from radar — the biomass itself, independent of any registry, developer, or optical image. Where the canopy grows back and the picture heals, the structure underneath doesn’t.
It matters because real money rests on it: the corporates, funds and underwriters carrying carbon-reversal, nature and EUDR exposure are pricing nature risk on evidence that’s already gone.
We measure the layers underneath, and show our work.
We read the structure beneath the canopy, across radar and optical spectrums, against public data. Nothing rests on our word.
Of 63,371 hectares of documented degradation, optical saw 76% at the time. Four years on, 43% had left no trace — in optical or C-band.
Optical climbs back to baseline. The radar structure doesn’t. The forest looks healed; the biomass is gone.
Measured across five regions, three continents.
Every figure is quoted per region, with its error rate. There is no global number — the signal is biome-dependent.
The questions underneath.
What is the EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation)?
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires companies placing commodities such as palm oil, rubber, soy, cocoa, coffee and timber on the EU market to prove they are deforestation-free after 2020. Meeting EUDR requirements means geolocating each plot and verifying that no forest loss occurred — the kind of independent, physical check Multilook provides directly from radar.
What is carbon-credit reversal, or permanence risk?
A reversal is when carbon stored by a forest project is lost — to logging, fire or gradual degradation — after the carbon credits were already issued. Because that loss can fade from optical satellite imagery within a few years, permanence is hard to verify. Multilook measures the standing biomass directly, so reversals stay visible even after the canopy regrows.
How are carbon credits verified?
Carbon credits are validated and verified against a registry standard, usually with optical imagery and field sampling supplied by the project itself. Multilook adds an independent measurement layer — MRV that does not rest on the developer’s own data, read from radar against public records.
Why radar instead of optical satellites?
Optical imagery sees the canopy surface and climbs back to baseline within a few years of a disturbance. L-band radar penetrates to the woody structure and stays depressed once the biomass is gone. That makes radar the more durable evidence for carbon, EUDR and nature-risk decisions that are settled years after the event.