We measure and manage the forests of the Alps and Italy's inner areas, with an analytical, traceable and monitorable method.
Syntropica S.r.l. Società Benefit is active in the Alps and Italy's inner areas: it makes the forest measurable, plannable and manageable.
Software and forest method.
Syntropica combines satellite monitoring tools with a calculation method based on ISO 14064-2, with a positive validation opinion from an independent verification body, to measure, plan and manage forests together with public bodies, companies and owners. Method
As an Italian benefit company (Società Benefit), it pursues, alongside profit, a common benefit written into its articles of association, and is working towards steward-ownership governance. Stewardship
How we work.
Syntropica works from observed data and written procedures. In practice, that means the following.
The group brings together forestry and engineering skills, in mechanical engineering and software. Management plans are signed by the forest technician in charge.
Observable data.
Satellite imagery, LiDAR surveys and ground measurements: values are based on observations; assumptions (baseline, models) are declared.
Documented procedures.
The method is written, versioned and repeatable: a third party, with the same data and the procedures described in the protocol, obtains the same result within the stated uncertainty.
Standards-grade rigour.
The calculation method is built on the principles and requirements of ISO 14064-2 and has a positive validation opinion from an independent verification body, issued to the project's client.
Stated uncertainty.
Every estimate comes with its own margin of uncertainty, which is part of the number.
What is in development, said as such.
The platform and the predictive models are in development and are presented as such, functionality and timing will be communicated once documented.
Data and sources.
The statements on this website refer to verifiable data, procedures and sources; what is not measured, we do not claim.
The name.
Syntropica comes from syntropy, the opposite of entropy. Entropy, here, is the growing disorder that follows the abandonment of places once inhabited and farmed: not wild nature, but what is left when care is withdrawn. Syntropica is the order that is rebuilt. It is the choice of a name: the method rests on standards.
Where
Based in Morbegno, in Valtellina. Syntropica works in Alpine areas and Italy's inner areas.
Syntropica is an Italian benefit company (Società Benefit) and an innovative start-up (startup innovativa), registered in the special section of the Register of Companies of Sondrio.