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🛰️ Mapping the Forage Landscape

An interactive 3D NDVI forage-landscape map: reposition an apiary, resize its flight radius and watch a live forage score respond to satellite-style vegetation data.

Biology3DAdvanced60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

A stylised satellite NDVI raster rendered in 3D: tile height and colour encode vegetation greenness, a translucent ring marks a candidate apiary's flight range, and a live forage score responds as you move the site and the season.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

NDVI turns satellite red/near-infrared reflectance into a greenness index. Overlaying that raster with a hive's practical flight radius, and weighting by flight distance, is exactly how a GIS-based siting workflow scores a candidate apiary.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the site sliders to relocate the apiary, resize the forage radius, and scrub through the day of year to watch spring green-up and autumn dieback shift the score. Raise the NDVI cutoff to see how much of the range still counts as good forage.

💡 Did You Know?

Because flight is metabolically costly, most foraging trips stay within roughly 1–2km of the hive even though bees can range several kilometres — so fine-grained NDVI near the site usually matters more than distant lush patches.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D NDVI forage-landscape map: reposition an apiary, resize its flight radius and watch a live forage score respond to satellite-style vegetation data.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install