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UrbanCat / Urban Nature Audit

Design nature.
Quantify the return.

Nature, priced in language councils and capital understand. Draw an intervention on a satellite view and, in under two minutes, get a sourced, board-ready dossier of avoided flood, heat and healthcare costs — the numbers a finance team will sign.

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Dubai South · UAE
Heat Mitigation
−4.6 °C
Dangerous heat exposure cut at peak (11:00–15:00)
Productivity recovered
+27%
Heat-illness ER visits avoided / yr
184
Sandpit scenario
Heat Mitigation — Dubai South
AED 4.82M avoided cost · Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan
How it works

From a shape on a satellite map to a quantified return.

Draw

Draw interventions on the map — street trees, mini-forests, green roofs, rain gardens — straight onto satellite imagery.

Quantify

Instantly quantify avoided costs and ecosystem value, in pounds, with the inputs and formula on every line.

Export

Export a board-ready investment case — a branded PDF a finance team will sign and a planner will defend.

Intervention catalogue

Seven interventions you can model on any site.

Click an intervention, draw where it goes, and the avoided-cost number updates as you work.

Mini-Forest
Street Trees
Green Roof
Pollinator Corridor
Bioswale
Rain Garden
Permeable Pavement

Built on peer-reviewed and publicly defensible methodologies.

Read the methodology
Golden scenarios

Three real sites. Same three beats.

What was added → measured change → avoided cost. Open any scenario to see the same numbers in the live demo.

UAE

Dubai South

A 1.4 km logistics corridor in Dubai South, shaded with native trees and cool-paved at street level.

Added
  • 380 desert-native street trees (Ghaf, Sidr)
  • 2,100 m² of high-albedo cool pavement
  • 4 misting shade pavilions
Measured change
  • Peak felt-temperature down 4.6 °C between 11:00–15:00
  • Outdoor productive hours recovered by 27%
  • 184 heat-illness ER visits avoided each year
Quantified return · pounds avoided
AED 4.82M
per year
Open this scenario in the demo
London, UK

Marylebone

Three pocket mini-forests, a 1.1 km rain garden on Wigmore Street, and a green-roof retrofit across 18 commercial buildings.

Added
  • 3 Miyawaki-method mini-forests (1,800 m²)
  • 1.1 km bioswale on Wigmore Street
  • Green roofs on 18 commercial buildings (9,400 m²)
Measured change
  • Vegetation density up 0.42 (NDVI, 5-year)
  • 82% of stormwater retained on site
  • PM2.5 down 18% across the catchment
Quantified return · pounds avoided
£3.14M
per year
Open this scenario in the demo
Singapore

Jurong

An 8 km pollinator corridor stitching three reservoir parks across a fragmented industrial estate.

Added
  • 8 km pollinator corridor between three reservoir parks
  • 6 ha of rewilded buffer with 42 native species
  • 1.8 ha managed wetland filtering 3 stormwater outfalls
Measured change
  • +38 biodiversity units (30-year)
  • Species richness up from 47 to 138
  • 640 megalitres of stormwater filtered each year
Quantified return · pounds avoided
S$ 6.71M
per year
Open this scenario in the demo
Live demo

A working dossier in 120 seconds.

No slide deck. The demo loads a real London site, lets you draw an intervention, and updates the avoided-cost number live as you work.

  • Click-to-paint interventions on Mapbox satellite tiles
  • Live recalculation — every figure traces to its source row
  • Toggle climate, biodiversity and heat-vulnerability layers
  • Export the same branded PDF a procurement team will sign

Sample dossiers: Kampung Bharu Cooling Corridor (Kuala Lumpur, MYR) · King's Cross Goods Yard Climate Spine (London, GBP) — rendered live in your browser.

Dubai South · UAE
Heat Mitigation
−4.6 °C
Dangerous heat exposure cut at peak (11:00–15:00)
Productivity recovered
+27%
Heat-illness ER visits avoided / yr
184
Sandpit scenario
Heat Mitigation — Dubai South
AED 4.82M avoided cost · Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan
dubai south · street trees (ghaf / sidr)● live
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How we compare

Other tools tell you what's there. We tell you what it's worth.

Most green-infrastructure software stops at inventory or carbon. Urban Nature Audit closes the loop with a sourced return in pounds avoided — the artefact a finance director, planner or biodiversity-credit broker actually needs.

Capability
Urban Nature Audit
this product
i-Tree / Eco
USDA
Natural Capital tools
EnTrade · NCPT
Generic GIS
QGIS · ArcGIS
Paint interventions on satellite imagery partial
Sourced £ avoided cost per intervention partial partial
Stormwater + thermal + health in one dossier partial
Defra Biodiversity Net Gain v4 unit uplift built in partial
Investor-grade exportable PDF partial
Time to first dossier~2 min~half-day~1 week~weeks
Setup / GIS expertise requirednonemoderatehighhigh

This helps councils justify nature investment financially — in one defensible report.

Restricted to UrbanCat.

Urban Nature Audit is an internal UrbanCat tool. Sign in with your @urbancat.co address to access the configurator.

Urban Nature Audit · UrbanCat suite · v1.0
Climate via Open-Meteo · Biodiversity via GBIF · Imagery via Mapbox