The land report reads what public maps can see — your water and the soil’s surface. The rest of the reading lives on your ground. This is how to read it, and the tools to take the reading yourself.
Public maps begin the climb — your water, and the soil’s surface. Shade, the living soil, the ecology and the wildlife — those can only be read on the ground.
Noon reads them on a Site Read. But the ground is yours — and your land’s living mark only ever holds or climbs. So here is the whole instrument, five dimensions and sixteen readings, taught plainly. Take what you can with a phone. We’ll provide the rest.
Eleven of the sixteen readings need only what’s in your pocket — a timer, a camera, a free ID app. Walk your land after the next rain and take them. Every reading you log is a point the maps could never see.
See the readings ↓Three readings jump from “seen” to “measured” with almost-free tools: an open can becomes an infiltration ring, a $5 rain gauge sizes a storm, a $20 IR thermometer proves shade in degrees. The numbers a designer actually needs.
The method, in full →Two readings — soil pH and organic matter — are lab numbers, not phone guesses. We take the composite sample, run the lab, walk the shade and the wildlife with you, and set the score into a Land Record that holds the before so the after can prove it climbed.
Book a Site Read →Read your address first, then read your ground. Every reading becomes a node on the map.
The five dimensions and their point ceilings are shown in full. The scoring rubric itself — how each reading becomes points — is computed by Noon so the number stays honest and comparable across every property. Field methods are guidance, not lab-certified results; lab and engineering figures come from licensed partners on a Site Read.