Folia Research

Working research from Folia: free and open Earth observation turned into inspectable, re-runnable recipes. Every report shows its work, the exact data sources, the recipe that produced each figure, and the honest limits of what the data can and cannot say.

Mineral prospecting on a shoestring →

Can a budget-constrained explorer use free satellite and DEM data to prioritize ground sampling on a greenstone-belt gold claim? A real registered claim near Zvishavane, Zimbabwe, worked end to end with Sentinel-2, Landsat, Copernicus DEM, Sentinel-1, and ASTER, plus EMIT and NISAR coverage checks. The honest answer: prioritization, not discovery.

This site is itself a work in progress. The mineral-prospecting report is the first; the architecture holds more.