Professional site intelligence for every land decision. Snapshot evaluates any U.S. parcel across environmental risk, power infrastructure, regulatory constraints, and resource potential — the same diligence criteria used by Fortune 500 site selectors — delivering a comprehensive feasibility report with multi-dimensional scoring in under 60 seconds.
From coordinates to a scored, explained site report — environmental, power, regulatory, and resource screening in under a minute.
Snapshot is transforming how people evaluate land — giving buyers, sellers, investors, and developers the same site intelligence that Fortune 500 companies use for site selection.
In today's rapidly evolving energy landscape — driven by unprecedented demand from energy infrastructure, AI computing facilities, and renewable energy projects — land with the right characteristics has become extraordinarily valuable.
Too often, critical site data is scattered across dozens of federal agencies, locked behind complex GIS tools, or only accessible to well-resourced teams with sophisticated site selection software.
Snapshot levels the playing field.
Whether you're buying, selling, investing, or developing — Snapshot gives you the data-driven intelligence to make confident decisions.
Evaluate any parcel before committing. Identify blocking constraints, environmental risks, and infrastructure gaps that could derail your project — before you close. Snapshot gives you the same site selection intelligence used by Fortune 500 companies, so you know exactly what you're buying.
Demonstrate your property's development potential with professional feasibility reports backed by federal data. In today's energy landscape, land with the right characteristics has become extraordinarily valuable. A strong Snapshot score gives you a position of strength in negotiations with developers and utilities.
Screen multiple sites quickly and compare scores side by side. Prioritize investments backed by federal data, not guesswork. Identify high-value properties before the competition and build a portfolio of sites with quantified development potential.
Accelerate due diligence for solar farms, storage, and other energy infrastructure projects. Snapshot evaluates each property across power infrastructure, environmental risk, terrain, geology, water resources, and mineral potential in one professional report. Reduce site evaluation from weeks to minutes.
Evaluate farmland on the factors that drive yield and value: soil drainage and farmland class, recent crop history, vegetation productivity, water resources, and flood exposure. The Agriculture Assessment purpose weights the inputs that matter for working land.
Prioritize acquisitions and easements with a clear view of ecological value: critical habitat, wetlands, protected-area adjacency, land-cover change, and natural hazard exposure. The Conservation & Stewardship purpose scores what matters for long-term stewardship.
Every Snapshot report produces four standardized 0–100 land assessments plus a purpose-weighted composite score tailored to how you intend to use the parcel — so the same site reads differently for a solar developer, an investor, a conservationist, or a farmer.
How workable the parcel itself is. Combines terrain, soils, current land cover, flood exposure, protected-area status, and contamination context into a single 0–100 score with a tier label.
Where the site sits relative to the grid and the sun. Scores transmission and substation proximity, solar resource quality, broadband access, and infrastructure density into one 0–100 energy readiness view.
Subsurface and resource potential. Captures geology, mineral deposit proximity, geochemistry, groundwater, aquifer context, and water quality in a single 0–100 resource score.
Ecological and hazard profile. Scores critical habitat, wetlands, protected areas, and natural hazard exposure so buyers, stewards, and developers can see the parcel's conservation weight alongside its development readiness.
Pick a lens — general review, selling, investing, solar, agriculture, conservation, real estate, or mineral — and Snapshot rebuilds a weighted 0–100 composite that emphasizes the data inputs that matter for that use case. Every input is shown with its value, weight, and contribution, so the score is never a black box.
Every data layer you need to evaluate a site — queried, scored, and summarized automatically. Compare any two to ten sites side-by-side once you have multiple reports.
From address to actionable report in under a minute.
Every score runs from 0 to 100 and falls into one of five bands, shown with a star rating so the headline answer reads at a glance. The purpose score uses the labels below; each land score has its own — Land Viability runs from High Viability to Severely Constrained, for example.
The inputs that matter most for your purpose are favorable across the board — grid access, solar resource, soils, habitat, or geology, depending on the lens you choose.
Solid fundamentals with one or two inputs holding the score back, such as a moderate solar resource or a longer run to the nearest substation.
Mixed results. Clear strengths in some inputs are offset by weaker ones — the score breakdown shows exactly which.
Several key inputs score poorly for this purpose. The same site may read very differently under another purpose.
Most weighted inputs score low for this purpose. Every input, value, and weight is listed, so you can see what drove the result.
Flood zones, wetlands, critical habitat, protected areas, contamination, and natural hazards are classified for your purpose in a dedicated constraint panel. A Blocking classification flags a characteristic that may need resolution for that use — it never lowers a score, so strengths and constraints stay visible side by side.
Every report includes a multi-page PDF with the four base land scores, a purpose-weighted composite, a three-tier site-constraint panel (Clear / Advisory / Blocking), geospatial maps, thematic data tables with full score breakdowns, and an AI-generated site narrative — ready to share with stakeholders, lenders, or your team.
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Classified for the selected purpose. Constraints are reported separately and are not factored into the scores.
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The property presents a complex profile for solar and energy infrastructure, marked by exceptional electrical grid proximity alongside substantial environmental constraints. Six high-voltage power lines operate within two miles, with the closest 230-kilovolt line located just 0.1 miles away, and the Soda Lake 230-kilovolt substation is positioned 1.3 miles from the site. Furthermore, the local grid supports 21 power generation facilities within 25 miles totaling up to 886 megawatts across solar, natural gas, hydroelectric, biomass, and battery storage systems. These factors provide strong structural access for power delivery and potential storage integration.
However, critical site characteristics introduce significant friction for energy development. The site point is located inside Bear Creek Lake Park, a municipal and federal recreation area, and non-federal protected area status is classified as Advisory. Environmental mapping reveals 14 National Wetlands Inventory features within a quarter mile, classified as Blocking, encompassing freshwater emergent, forested, shrub, and riverine habitats that are often federally regulated. Mapped flood risk is also classified as Blocking, because while the site point is in unshaded Zone X, base flood zones including Zone AE and Zone A surround the location within 0.25 miles.
Every assessment draws on official government data at the moment you run it, cross-checked against satellite imagery through Google Earth Engine — with every source cited in the report.
A GIS analyst charges $300 – $1,200 per site assessment. Snapshot delivers a comparable report in under 60 seconds.
Need deeper diligence? Our Enhanced Site Survey adds state-level, county-level, and manually-researched intelligence to any assessment — starting at $500.
Contact us to learn more →Each assessment evaluates a site across nine dimensions: power infrastructure proximity (transmission lines, substations), environmental risk (flood zones, wetlands, critical habitat), solar resource potential, terrain and slope, land use and soil classification, protected area status, broadband connectivity, natural hazard exposure, and contamination risk. The result is a multi-dimensional suitability score with full category-by-category breakdowns.
Snapshot sources data from authoritative federal agencies including USGS, FEMA, USFWS, NLR (formerly NREL), USDA, EPA, EIA, and FCC. Every score is fully transparent — you can see exactly which data contributed which points. Federal datasets are typically updated monthly to annually. For high-value decisions, we recommend verifying critical findings through professional due diligence, which our Enhanced Site Survey can provide.
Most tools focus on 3–5 data categories or provide black-box valuations without showing their work. Snapshot evaluates sites across all nine assessment dimensions simultaneously, with fully transparent scoring — every point is traceable to a specific dataset and threshold. You see the report evidence and scoring, not just the answer.
Snapshot produces four standardized 0–100 land scores (Land Viability, Energy Opportunity, Resource Opportunity, Conservation Value) plus a purpose-weighted composite tailored to your intended use — general review, property value, selling, solar / energy infrastructure, real estate investment, agriculture, conservation, or mineral exploration. Every report also includes a three-tier site-constraint panel (Clear / Advisory / Blocking), thematic data tables, maps, and an AI site narrative grounded in the underlying data.
Paid assessments include a professional PDF report with maps and full score breakdowns. The 5-Pack and Unlimited tiers also include Excel spreadsheets, GeoJSON (for GIS software), and CSV data exports. All reports are saved to your account for future access.
Yes. Our Enhanced Site Survey adds state-level, county-level, and manually-researched intelligence that the automated report cannot reach — including utility interconnection status, county zoning verification, tax incentive programs, environmental permitting pathways, and more. Enhanced Surveys start at $500 and are available after any paid assessment. Contact us to learn more.
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