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Supply Chain Database

The Satelligence Supply Chain Database supports traceability efforts for environmental risk monitoring and reporting across global agricultural supply chains. This document outlines the structure, sources, maintenance, governance, and methods for ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance.

OVERVIEW

Supply chain traceability is key to meeting sustainability goals, managing risk, and complying with global regulations. Whether for due diligence, deforestation monitoring, or responsible sourcing, organizations need accurate, verified data on the origins and flow of raw materials. Satelligence provides access to a comprehensive, global database of supply chain assets, including farm and concession geolocations across multiple commodities, enabling clients to gain transparency, assess risks, and act with confidence across complex supply chains.

Our global database of geolocation assets and respective supplier-buyer relations is the basis for documenting evidence of non-compliance with regulations and sourcing policies and commitments. Currently, we cover 7 million soy parcels – 1,1 million coffee farms – 1,3 million cocoa farms – 80,000 oil palm plantations – 31,000 timber concessions and pulp plantations – and 32,000 mining sites as well as commodities such as rubber, sugarcane and coconut, amongst others.

 

Our database forms an integral part of the contextual information layers to monitor, report and verify environmental risks (fires, deforestation, land use change emissions) and how they relate to your supply chain. 

SOURCES 

We engage with multiple parties to strengthen our traceability data and service.  General sources of our traceability data include:

  • Publicly available databases: such as RSPO, MSPO, Greenpeace, World Resources Institute, Rainforest Action Network, Mighty Earth. As well as, Brazil’s Rural Environmental Registry (CAR); Brazil’s electronic public register of rural properties. We are currently updating, digitizing and reconciling data for our palm oil supply chain database by cross referencing with the latest RSPO and MSPO data with traceability-to-plantation (TTP) links. These include certified members’ audit report repositories for all RSPO members across Indonesia, Malaysia, LATAM countries and others.

  • Field-based and consultant gathered data: local consultants hired to gather concession data using local government sources and private GIS networks and industry relationships.

  • Institutional data sources: government institutions and divisions. 

  • Affiliate membership to multi-stakeholder initiatives: We are an RSPO affiliate member and have ongoing engagements with pilots to revamp their traceability system. We are also working in collaboration with the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and Fairtrade to strengthen our service for cocoa and coffee. 

  • National associations of oil palm growers in LATAM: We work together with Grepalma in Guatemala and Fedepalm in Colombia,, to monitor deforestation. Together, we are facilitating partnerships amongst suppliers and buyers sourcing from the same region for sharing TTP data.

  • We have an ongoing association with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), which is managing the EU observatory on deforestation and forest degradation, to align our system and database for EUDR compliance. 

  • We are engaged with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta, and the Indonesian-Malaysian EU Joint Task Force on the development of an international cadastral database. 

 

MAINTENANCE

The Satelligence Supply Chain Database underpins our deforestation monitoring and traceability services. We maintain high data quality and relevance through a structured process of regular updates and validation:

  • Update concession data, including geospatial boundaries and ownership data. 

  • Update mill locations, ownership data and traceability to plantation links. 

  • Update smallholder farm boundaries with the help of our local liaisons, to reflect evolving supply landscapes

 

GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT

Satelligence manages data with a strict protocol to ensure the supply chain data in the Satelligence database is coherent, consistent and transparent. 

  • Ingestion: All data coming into our database is checked on quality and completeness via a standard protocol.

  • Versioning: All data in our database has a start and end date allowing for versioning and tracking changes.

  • Authorisation: All data in our database has an owner (organisation) allowing for fine grained authorisation models. Public data is accessible to anyone, private data is only accessible to users of the same organisation.

  • Lineage: Data sources are saved in our database so the origin can be tracked. 

  • Integrity checks: These include integrity and quality of polygons, naming consistency, duplicate names, polygon overlaps and linkages.

  • Private data audit: An export of private data is shared with the counterpart after ingestion to confirm data integrity. Possible cleanups are synchronised with counterparts.

  • Public data audit: All public data layers and processes used are assured by an independent accountancy (EY)

 

PALM OIL

OVERVIEW

Concession data is essential for monitoring deforestation linked to palm oil. However, access to this data varies by country.

Our concession data originates from official government sources, credible local consultants, and selected growers and traders. The majority of our concession database was developed through our work on The Borneo Initiative (TBI) and their engagement with IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative in 2020, where we mapped forest and peatland in different provinces of Indonesia.

SOURCES

Satelligence compiles a harmonized concession dataset by integrating multiple verified sources. These include public datasets, field-gathered data, government records, and independent research. These include:

  • Harmonized Public and Partner datasets

    • Public concession data from RSPO, MSPO, geoRSPO, Greenpeace, and World Resources Institute (WRI)

    • Smallholder and estate data gathered by partners and field consultants. We are commencing an initiative to work with a labelling company to convert MSPO audit reports on smallholders and their linkages with Mills to enhance traceability of smallholders in Malaysia.

    • Concession licenses (right-to-cultivate permits)

    • Information from palm oil grievance reports, such as those by Mighty Earth, and other NGO investigations and websites

  • Field-based and consultant gathered data: Local consultants hired to gather concession and smallholder data using:

    • Local government sources

    • Private GIS networks and industry relationships

  • Supply chain and institutional data sources such as:

    • Government institutions and divisions

    • Commodity-specific chambers of commerce

    • NGOs and private sector entities involved in sustainable sourcing

  • Government Agencies by Country

    • Indonesia:

      • Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK)

      • Ministry of Agrarian Affairs

    • Malaysia:

      • Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)

      • State-level governments

    • Other producing countries:

      • Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Liberia – respective national land and agriculture agencies

  • Publicly Available Global Datasets

    • Global Forest Watch (GFW): Tracks broad deforestation and overlays known concession boundaries

    • Open Land Contracts: Access to land deals and legal concession agreements

    • RSPO concession maps: Disclosed by some RSPO-certified companies

    • ISCC maps and disclosures for certified plantations and sourcing

    • Public corporate disclosures, concession maps and sourcing information published by palm oil traders and refiners

    • Land-use change detection using satellite imagery from commercial and open-source providers

  • NGO and Independent Research

    • Analyses from groups such as Chain Reaction Research, Greenpeace, and WWF on land clearing and concession expansion trends

MILLS AND CONCESSIONS RELATION (Satelligence methodology)

This document details the process Satelligence uses to connect mills and concessions. 

Definitions: 

  • Entities: Either mill or concession

  • Entity ownership: Is defined by entity group name and company name

  • Related-by-ownership: Two entities are related by ownership when one group name or company name is matching either group name or company name of the other one. Group name and company names are cross referenced.