MyForestPass · a BranchX Limited platform

Product roadmap

MyForestPass is a lifelong Digital Forest Passport and integrated forest intelligence, evidence, operations and traceability platform, with Continuous Cover Forestry as the flagship scored pathway. Everything below is labelled honestly: what runs in production now, what is planned, and what remains a future capability. Nothing on this page should be read as a feature you can use before it is marked In production today.

  1. Phase 1

    Forest Operations and Governance

    In production today

    The operational and governance layers run in production today: passports, assessment, planning, marking, silviculture, harvest, traceability, monitoring, certification and reporting.

    • Woodland and Stand PassportsIn production today
    • CCF Assessment (CCFPI) and transition planningBeta — scientific validation required
    • Management planning and tree markingIn production today
    • Regeneration and silviculture deliveryIn production today
    • Harvest planning, operations and ForestTrace™In production today
    • Monitoring, certification and complianceIn production today
    • Lifecycle management, reports and notificationsIn production today
    • Governance, roles and append-only auditIn production today

  2. Phase 2

    Open Import Platform and interoperability

    In production today

    One hardware-agnostic import contract for every data source, plus enterprise GIS interoperability. The adapter framework, GIS import and export, ArcGIS write-back and the read/write REST API are in production; a few file connectors remain.

    • Adapter framework and registryIn production today
    • CSV and delimited tables (validation and preview)In production today
    • GeoJSON boundaries and points (validation and preview)In production today
    • GeoJSON, KML and GPX boundary import in ForestGISIn production today
    • Shapefile and inventory-system connectorsPlanned
    • LAS / LAZ / E57 point-cloud ingestion and reviewed tree extractionIn production today
    • Automated point-cloud processing at volume (deployed worker required)Software complete — external dependency
    • ArcGIS Feature Service import with staged reviewIn production today
    • WMS / WMTS background service registryIn production today
    • QGIS and ArcGIS Pro exports with immutable manifestsIn production today
    • REST API with organisation-scoped keys (read and write)In production today
    • ArcGIS write-back and bidirectional synchronisationIn production today
    • QGIS plugin package — installs from file; publication to the QGIS repository pendingSoftware complete — external dependency
    • National Tree Map integrationFuture capability

  3. Phase 3

    Forest Intelligence

    In production today

    Quantitative analysis layered on the evidence spine. The software is built and tested; the underlying models remain indicative until independently validated, and climate projections remain assumption-based until a licensed dataset is connected.

    • Forest Alpha™ — growth, valuation and carbon modellingBeta — scientific validation required
    • Intelligence job queue with deterministic integrityIn production today
    • Advanced Forest Alpha™ optimisation and scenario frontierBeta — scientific validation required
    • Climate Intelligence (scenario envelopes, adaptation options)Software complete — external dependency
    • Automated tree extraction and committed point-cloud evidenceBeta — scientific validation required
    • Ecosystem Services™ assessment with immutable evidenceBeta — scientific validation required
    • Branch Exchange™ — professional and organisation profilesIn production today
    • Branch Exchange™ — directory of foresters, contractors and researchersIn production today
    • Branch Exchange™ — networking and connectionsIn production today
    • Branch Exchange™ — collaboration, research and work opportunitiesIn production today
    • Branch Exchange™ — evidence-backed listings, enquiries and messagingIn production today

  4. Phase 4

    Forest Twin™

    In production today

    Survey missions, immutable survey epochs, the scanner import centre, the twin workspace and point-cloud processing are in production. Structural twin visualisation remains a future capability.

    • Survey missions and immutable epochsIn production today
    • Scanner Import Centre and twin workspaceIn production today
    • Canopy metrics with review and derived statusIn production today
    • Point-cloud processing worker deployment at volumeSoftware complete — external dependency
    • Direct scanner device integrationsFuture capability
    • Structural twin visualisationFuture capability

  5. Phase 5

    Field, telemetry and wallet

    In production today

    Offline-first field capture, authenticated telemetry ingestion and the pass architecture run today. Wallet passes are built but cannot be installed on a device until Apple and Google signing credentials are configured.

    • Offline tree marking with queued syncIn production today
    • GPS capture and photograph uploadIn production today
    • Inspection and harvest capture in the fieldIn production today
    • Live environmental sensors and machine telemetry ingestionIn production today
    • QR and NFC/RFID tag verificationIn production today
    • Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes (preview only until signing is configured)Software complete — external dependency
    • Dedicated mobile applicationPlanned

  6. Phase 6

    Management pathways

    In production today

    Twelve management pathways are declared in a versioned registry and run the same Pathway Centre workflow — assess, plan, approve, deliver, monitor, evidence, report — each with its own assessment dimensions, evidence requirements and reporting. Continuous Cover Forestry is the only pathway with a dedicated scored methodology; the others run as beta or evidence-led workflows while their specialist models are developed.

    • Continuous Cover Forestry — dedicated pathway available (CCFPI calibration in progress)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Commercial Forestry — available, beta (Forest Alpha curves need local calibration)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Native Woodland — available, beta (evidence workflow, no scored index claimed)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Mixed Woodland — available, beta (evidence workflow, no diversity index claimed)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Estate Forestry — available, beta (evidence workflow, no estate index or valuation)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Agroforestry — available, beta (no validated productivity or interaction model)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Biodiversity — available, beta (indicative coefficients, local validation required)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Carbon — available, beta (modelled estimates only; no carbon credits issued, verified or traded)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Urban Forestry — available, beta (no QTRA/TRAQ risk model; protected-tree status is a declaration)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Amenity Trees — available, beta (condition and duty-of-care records; no tree-risk rating produced)Beta — scientific validation required
    • Natural Capital — core platform supported, specialist valuation methodology pending (not a regulated or verified valuation)Core platform supported · specialist methodology pending
    • Government Forestry — core platform supported, specialist governance methodology pending (no regulatory determination)Core platform supported · specialist methodology pending

Hardware-agnostic by design

MyForestPass does not build scanners. It defines one import contract, and every source — a spreadsheet, a GIS layer, a drone provider, a handheld LiDAR unit, a national dataset — arrives through an adapter that satisfies it. Supporting a new vendor is a new adapter, not a change to the platform.

Tabular data

  • CSV / delimited textIn production today

GIS vector layers

  • GeoJSONIn production today
  • Esri ShapefilePlanned

GPS and positioning

  • GPS track / waypoints (GPX)Planned

Imagery and remote sensing

  • Drone survey APIFuture capability
  • Sentinel satellite imageryFuture capability

Point clouds and LiDAR

  • Handheld LiDAR scannerFuture capability
  • LAS point cloudFuture capability
  • LAZ compressed point cloudFuture capability
  • PLY mesh / point cloudFuture capability

Forestry inventory systems

  • ForestGEO plot dataPlanned
  • Forestry inventory system (generic API)Planned

Reference datasets

  • National Tree MapPlanned

What a MyForestPass badge states

One shared standard runs across the platform. Each badge is derived from records already held and states the evidence behind it. A badge describes the record held and versioned — it is not a certification, licence, approval or statement of regulatory compliance.