◉ TOOLKIT FOR CONSERVATION GROUPSEST. 2023 · BC SOCIETY23 PARTNER ORGS · 47 SITES

Bring your forestinto every room you can't fit it in.

Emergent Layer is a field-and-software toolkit for the groups defending old growth. We scan your grove at research fidelity — then turn the data into immersive rooms, share-ready content, and embeds for your channels. Co-produced with your stewards, branded for you, owned by you.

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FIELD LOG · 05.14.2647 SITES CAPTURED12,428 ACRES ARCHIVED23 PARTNER ORGS▸ ARCHIVE: OPEN
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FIELD STATE · YEAR 3
23
partner orgs
grassroots, indigenous-led, land trusts
47
sites captured
6 bioregions, 3 continents
18
installations
VR, dome, pop-up rooms shipped
1.2 PB
open archive
free to use under CC-BY-SA 4.0
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THE TOOLKIT · III SERVICES

Everything you need to put the forest in the room.

We provide three services — scans, installations, and content — co-produced with you and your stewards. Pick one, pick all three. Everything we make ships under your brand, with raw data yours forever.

[ SLAM MOBILE CAPTURE · BC COAST · DAY 04 ]
OUTPUT · POINT CLOUD · SPLAT · MESH
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SCANS

We come to the grove.

SLAM mobile LiDAR for rapid block coverage, tripod for specimens. TreeLearn composition analysis, Gaussian splat reconstruction, and DBH calibration with increment cores. Raw archive — .laz, .spz — yours permanently.

[ DOME PROJECTION · CARMANAH · OPENING NIGHT ]
OUTPUT · VR · DOME · PROJECTION
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INSTALLATIONS

We build the room.

VR walkthroughs (Quest 3 / Vision Pro), full-dome projection, and pop-up immersive rooms designed for hearings, town halls, donor events, and gallery shows. We ship the rigs, train your team, and travel with you on tour.

[ EMBED · SPLAT VIEWER · PARTNER SITE ]
OUTPUT · MP4 · EMBED · IMG
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CONTENT

We cut it for your channels.

Vertical and square social cuts, stills for press, embeddable splat viewers for your website, drone B-roll, press kits, and licensable footage. Everything is delivered branded, captioned, and ready to publish.

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THE ATLAS · LIVE VIEWER

Every capture, walkable in your browser.

Our open archive is rendered live with Spark — a Gaussian-splat engine that streams sub-centimeter forest data into any browser, mobile, and VR. Each partner site is free to embed and free to use.

▸ ATLAS · LIVEEXCAVATOR GARDEN · SOG · STAND-IN FOR E-0047SPARK v2.0 · WEBGL2● STREAMING
▸ CAM · ORBIT AUTO
FOV 55.0°
LAT 49.74°N · LON -123.97°W
SPLATS · ~1.2M
LOD · COARSE → FINE
RENDER · 60 FPS
DRAG · ORBIT SHIFT+DRAG · PAN SCROLL · ZOOM[ EMBED THIS ON YOUR SITE ↗ ][ FULLSCREEN ↗ ]
▸ FILTERS
REGIONALL
SPECIESTHUJA PLICATA +4
STATUSALL
BIOMETEMPERATE RAINFOREST
OPEN FULL ATLAS →
IDSITEREGIONACRESSTATUS
E-0047Elphinstone Old GrowthSunshine Coast, BC1,240PROTECTED
C-0012Carmanah GiantsVancouver Island, BC890PARTNERED
A-0033Avatar GrovePort Renfrew, BC3,400SCANNING
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PARTNER STORY · 04
[ ELPHINSTONE OLD GROWTH · TERRESTRIAL SCAN · 2.4B POINTS ]
THUJA PLICATA, 61M, EST. AGE 840Y
DISPATCH NO. 12 · APR 2026

Elphinstone Old Growth: a 900-year cedar, archived for provincial record.

The Shíshálh Nation needed a 1,240-acre grove visible to people who would never set foot in it. Over six weeks our field team co-produced the capture with their stewards. The deliverable: a full splat archive, two VR rooms toured to four hearings, an embedded viewer on their site, and a 90-second social cut that reached 2.1M plays. The grove now appears in provincial and federal Crown proceedings.

VIEW IN ATLAS →
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PARTNERS

Twenty-three conservation groups use the toolkit. The work belongs to them.

P-001
SHÍSHÁLH NATION
P-002
PACHEEDAHT NATION
P-003
ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE
P-004
DEFENSORES DEL BOSQUE
P-005
BOB BROWN FOUNDATION
P-006
TARKINE DEFENDERS
P-007
POLISH WILDERNESS WATCH
P-008
ONGOING — 16 MORE
[ UNDERSTORY · LOW-LIGHT LONG EXPOSURE ]
— BECOME A PARTNER

Have a forest, and an audience who needs to walk it?

We take on six to eight new partners per year. Priority goes to threatened groves, indigenous-led stewardship, and campaigns where an immersive deliverable will tip the scale — a hearing, a board vote, a fundraising window, a press cycle.

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