Do Diligence Better.

The environmental due diligence process sucks. Endangered species, wetlands, regulations, permits, and more must be considered.  A Transect report is an online tool that provides the instant answers you need to help you proceed with your project in confidence.  In just minutes, our reports provide:

• A summary of environmental concerns,
• Anticipated permitting pathways and timelines, and
• Recommendations for next steps.

Each report includes comprehensive, current data and is reviewed by an in-house environmental expert.

We have hundreds of datasets in the platform, but we've listed a few here to give you an idea:

• Threatened and endangered species:
  • Proprietary and agency-sourced species occurrences
  • Designated critical habitat
  • Probability zones
  • Proprietary sub-county ranges
  • USFWS ECOS ranges
  • Migratory bird and eagle locations
  • State species of concern data, where protected from incidental take
• Waterways and wetlands:
  • National Hydrography Dataset
  • National Wetlands Inventory
  • 303(d) impaired waters
  • Navigable waters
• State environmental agency areas of concern or permit required
• Historic and cultural resources data that is publically available, including cemeteries, historic districts, NRHP properties, etc.
• Protected Areas Database: public and private lands
• FEMA Flood Hazard Zones and FIRM panels
• ECHO environmental compliance data
• Setting data: vegetation, soils, geology, topography, watersheds, parcel boundaries, and more
• Transect Catalog™, which houses other environmental and setting data, including sensitive aquifers, transportation, infrastructure, and more…

Transect is not a Phase I ESA and does not provide the same information found in a Phase I ESA.  A Phase I ESA searches for issues related to hazardous contamination liabilities and is conducted in accordance with ASTM Standard E1527-13.

Transect searches for risk associated with natural resources issues like wetlands, endangered species, historic resources, protected areas, etc., in accordance with the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, National Historic Preservation Act, National Environmental Policy Act, respectively (these are just the most-well recognized rules – we assess dozens of state and federal environmental rules for each project). Check out our blog post on this topic here.

We update most of our data quarterly or in accordance with the source data release schedule.

Additionally, we track many of our data sources on a daily basis, so when those datasets are updated by the agency, they are updated in Transect within 24-48 hours.

Data Services

• Encryption at rest.
• Backups and rollback protection available across all data services.
• High availability and low-latency services power Transect data services.
• Transect maintains 3X the capacity (storage) we use on average.
• Transect maintains 100X the computing power (RAM) used on any average day.

Containers

• Dedicated dynos ensure Transect infrastructure is isolated from security and performance problems associated with other clients using same provider(s).
• Prebooting ensures that the new Transect dynos are started (and receive traffic) before the existing ones are terminated, contributing to zero downtime deploys.
• Autoscaling scales Transect web dynos out if the max of the 95th percentile of web response times exceed a threshold.

Security

• All web-facing services (web and API traffic) require SSL encrypted connections.
• Firewalls protect Transect data services and containers, including spoofing and sniffing protections.
• DDoS mitigation techniques provided by our infrastructure.
  Port scanning is prohibited at the infrastructure level.

We offer several subscription options. Contact us or sign up for a demo to learn more about pricing.

As of June 2019, we are currently available in the states highlighted below, but we are adding more each month. Want to see your project states online? Let us know about it!