Where the data comes from

Imagery

Satellite and topo: Mapbox (Maxar, OpenStreetMap); The default base map, and the images the planner reads
Leaf-off: New York State ITS orthoimagery; The Leaf-off base map in New York, and the planner
Leaf-on: USDA NAIP, via USGS The National Map; The Leaf-on base map, lower 48

LiDAR: USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP); our own 1 m tiles in New York; Terrain shading, contours, and the landforms the planner reads

Public land: USGS PAD-US 4.1; NYS DEC Lands, WMUs and Cooperative Hunting Areas; NYC DEP watershed lands; Public land, hunting units and their facts
Parcels and owners: County and state open parcel data in 18 states; Property lines, owners and mailing addresses

Forecast and history: Open-Meteo; DecoCast, alerts, and the weather at each camera visit
Sun and moon: Computed on our server; Legal light, sunrise and sunset, moon phase

Movement and the rut: Buck GPS-collar studies, Penn State Deer-Forest Study, Mississippi State Deer Lab; DecoCast’s calibration and the planner’s notes
Habitat: USDA NRCS habitat leaflets, University of Tennessee Extension, National Deer Association; Plots, screening, hinge cuts in plans

Plans and answers: Anthropic’s Claude; Ask AI, with your permission
Camera detection: MegaDetector, run on our own server; Finding animals, people and vehicles in camera photos

A whitetail buck standing in goldenrod at the edge of a field: Mister A on Unsplash; Mood photography under the Unsplash License. Not our users or our ground.
A hunter walking across a frosted field toward the tree line at sunrise: Julian Hanslmaier on Unsplash; Mood photography under the Unsplash License. Not our users or our ground.
A hunter in a field of tall grass, watching the sun go down: Evgeniy Smersh on Unsplash; Mood photography under the Unsplash License. Not our users or our ground.
Two whitetail bucks squaring off in tall grass in low autumn light: Dmytro Koplyk on Pexels; Mood photography under the Pexels License. Not our users or our ground.
A whitetail buck at the edge of a standing cornfield in evening light: Aaron J Hill on Pexels; Mood photography under the Pexels License. Not our users or our ground.
Two hunters in camouflage, tucked into brush, watching the same field: Rhett Noonan on Unsplash; Mood photography under the Unsplash License. Not our users or our ground.
Fog lifting off fields and woodlots at sunrise: Kristina Fritsch on Unsplash; Mood photography under the Unsplash License. Not our users or our ground.
Morning sun breaking through fog in a stand of conifers: Dave Hoefler on Unsplash; Mood photography under the Unsplash License. Not our users or our ground.
A whitetail buck looking straight out of brushy autumn cover: John Baker on Pexels; Mood photography under the Pexels License. Not our users or our ground.