Translate the landscape
Each land-cover class becomes a transparent movement resistance, suitability score, and treatment cost.
CASE 01 / TEXAS GULF COAST
Reconnect the last one percent.
Find a feasible habitat corridor. Test whether it meaningfully changes survival before restoration money is spent.
Core prairiePrairie remnantPastureCroplandBrushRoad
CELL 08-09Protected coastal prairieHigh-value habitat already managed as coastal prairie.
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WHAT THE MODEL DOES
From colored pixels to a decision you can inspect.
STITCH separates the parts conservation teams usually have to juggle across GIS, spreadsheets, and static reports.
Search every viable stitch
A budget-aware graph search traces the lowest combined ecological and restoration-cost path between core patches.
Ask “what if?” 400 times
A two-patch metapopulation model varies growth, movement, and weather shocks across twenty years.
PROVENANCE & LIMITS
Evidence, not theatre.
The ecological context is real. The demo tile and unit costs are clearly labeled screening assumptions so the interface never pretends to know more than its inputs.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceHabitat loss, fragmentation, lifecycle, and recovery contextUSGS habitat distribution modelDeductive species model built from remotely sensed layers · DOI 10.5066/F77S7M35Texas Parks & WildlifeCoastal-prairie habitat needs and life-history parameters
Not field-ready yet. A deployed analysis must ingest current parcel, ownership, vegetation, hydrology, and monitoring data.
Safe by design. STITCH ranks interventions; it does not publish sensitive occurrence points or claim an exact future population.
THE PATH TO IMPACT
Spend the next restoration dollar where it changes the system.
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Screen candidate corridors in minutes
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Validate the short list with field and parcel data
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Fund the intervention with an auditable brief