Practical terrain, water, moisture, and microclimate analysis for regenerative land design.
The RegenGIS plugin helps designers and land stewards read landscape patterns before they commit to layout, planting, access, or earthworks.
It works inside QGIS and supports a transparent workflow for early-stage regenerative site assessment.
The plugin calculates. The designer decides. The method connects.
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Many important land-use decisions are still made from scattered maps, rough impressions, or one-off analyses that are hard to repeat.
That creates problems when teams need to:
compare design options
explain choices to clients or collaborators
reuse a workflow across projects
test whether a preferred idea actually fits the land
The RegenGIS plugin was built to make that early analysis phase clearer and more consistent.
The RegenGIS Plugin is a QGIS plugin for landscape analysis in regenerative design contexts.
It helps users analyse:
terrain structure
water flow and accumulation
relative wet and dry patterns
solar exposure and microclimate variation
overlaps and tensions between different spatial conditions
It does not design the site for you. It helps you see more clearly what the land is already doing so design choices can be grounded in real conditions.
Terrain structure
Useful for understanding where the terrain supports or constrains access, planting, intervention, and erosion-sensitive movement.
Water movement
Useful for understanding where water concentrates, where retention may fit, and where interventions may create downstream risk.
Relative moisture patterns
Useful for species placement, establishment risk, restoration logic, and lighter versus heavier use.
Solar exposure and microclimate
Useful for understanding warmer and cooler zones, frost risk, and higher-value planting opportunities.
Layer comparison
Useful for comparing opportunity zones, conflict zones, and trade-offs between design strategies.
RegenGIS is built around four practical choices:
transparent methods instead of black-box scoring
a design-phase focus instead of post-hoc reporting
reproducible workflows that can be checked and reused
an open GIS foundation inside QGIS
The plugin does not replace field observation, local knowledge, or design judgement.
It does not automatically tell you the best intervention. It does not remove the need to weigh management capacity, budget, access, labour, or implementation sequence. And it does not turn uncertain data into certain answers.
Its role is to improve landscape reading and support better decisions, not to pretend software can design the site on its own.
The plugin is useful when you need to make or compare decisions such as:
where access should follow ridges instead of crossing water concentration lines
where orchard or agroforestry zones are warmer, drier, wetter, more exposed, or easier to manage
where water harvesting interventions may fit the land, and where they may create downstream problems
where restoration should come before production
where several favourable conditions align, and where trade-offs are unavoidable
If you want to explore the plugin, future workflows, and related learning resources, join the early access list.