Total vegetation cover
36.2%
Rehabilitation monitoring • Prepared by GeoNadir for Red Falls
Progress against your rehabilitation completion criteria
Your Progressive Rehabilitation and Closure Plan (PRCP) documents the completion criteria required for this rehabilitation site. This summary reports the objective, remote-sensing evidence GeoNadir has generated against the criteria that can be measured directly from imagery – each shown with the current metrics and a traffic-light status against the plan. Click on each section below to expand for more information.
Early-stage site – active intervention recommended
This first monitoring capture shows total vegetation cover well below target and bare ground dominating the surface, with a number of large bare patches. Revegetation and determining a defensible analogue reference site are the priorities.
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Vegetation and bare ground cover
Target: Vegetative groundcover ≥ 70% on outward-facing slopes and ≥ 30% on inward-facing slopes; no bare areas > 10 m².
The site is at an early recovery stage, with 36.2% total vegetation cover across 4 ha – well below the >70% target, and no assessed area currently meets the cover threshold. Ground vegetation (under 1 m) accounts for 23.4% (0.9 ha) and mid-story (1–10 m) for 8.6% (0.3 ha), with only 4.2% canopy established so far. Bare ground dominates the surface at 63.8% (2 ha), including 30 bare patches larger than 10 m² (the largest 5,780 m²). Surface stabilisation and vegetation establishment are the primary constraints requiring active management.
Total vegetation cover
36.2%
Canopy cover (>8.0 m)
4.2%
Large bare patches
30
Updated: July 2026
Vegetation health trajectory
Target: Achievement and maintenance of a stable vegetation condition over time.
The multi-year satellite record (2020–2026, 318 scenes) shows an early, near-flat trajectory rather than active recovery. Site vegetation vigour (NDVI 0.275) sits well below the 0.580 analogue Woodland target and is improving only marginally (trend +0.0080/year), with just 13.8% of the site improving and 86.2% stable – which projects to roughly 86.7 years to reach the target on the current trend. Vegetation moisture (NDMI -0.228) is further below its 0.200 target and slightly declining. Establishing a defensible analogue reference and actively accelerating establishment are the priorities to bend this trajectory upward.
Vegetation vigour (NDVI)
0.275
Vegetation moisture (NDMI)
-0.228
Updated: September 2026
Maximum slope indicators
Target: Maximum overall slope gradient within limits (≤ 15% grade); landforms geotechnically stable, with minimal erosion and no gullying or active scour.
Most of the site sits within stable slope thresholds – 71.9% (3 ha of 4 ha) is within the 15% grade threshold and suitable for standard revegetation management. 28.1% (1 ha) exceeds it, indicating increased erosion risk, and critical erosion risk (≥30%) is confined to 0.5 ha, with 5 priority sites flagged for field check. Erosion, gullying and scour features still require field confirmation on the ground.
Area > 15% slope
28.1%
Updated: July 2026