The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR, Regulation 2023/1115), which entered into application in December 2024, prohibits the placing on the EU market of seven commodity categories (cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, wood, rubber) and derived products if they are associated with deforestation or forest degradation on land cleared after 31 December 2020. Operators placing in-scope products on the EU market must submit a due diligence statement containing: geolocation coordinates of all plots of land where the relevant commodities were produced; evidence that the commodities do not originate from recently deforested land; and compliance with applicable legislation of the country of production.
The geolocation requirement is technically the most demanding element of EUDR compliance for complex supply chains. Large cocoa and palm oil supply chains may involve hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmer plots — each requiring GPS coordinates sufficient to determine whether the plot falls within land deforested after 31 December 2020. For a typical cocoa supply chain originating in Côte d'Ivoire or Ghana, this requires geolocation of 500,000+ smallholder plots, most of which have never been formally surveyed.
The technical architecture for EUDR geospatial compliance must address four functional requirements: (1) plot geolocation data collection at scale — mobile field collection apps with offline GPS capability for areas with limited connectivity; (2) deforestation risk assessment — automated overlay of plot polygons against satellite-derived deforestation datasets (Global Forest Watch TMF, ESA World Cover, JRC Global Surface Water); (3) supply chain traceability — blockchain or database-backed chain of custody from farm to first buyer to processor to operator; (4) due diligence statement generation — automated production of EUDR-compliant XML statements for submission to the EU Information System.
Deforestation risk assessment requires comparison of each plot against two reference datasets: the JRC Tropical Moist Forest (TMF) dataset, which provides annual forest cover maps from 1990 to present at 30m resolution derived from Landsat time-series; and the Global Forest Watch annual tree cover loss product, which provides 30m resolution annual disturbance data from 2000 to present. A plot is flagged as deforestation risk if any portion of its area shows TMF transition from undisturbed or degraded forest to non-forest between 1 January 2021 and the current analysis date.
The Prime Logic Environmental Platform's EUDR Compliance Module implements the complete technical stack: iOS/Android field collection app with offline GPS and plot boundary capture; automated PostGIS-based deforestation risk scoring using JRC TMF and GFW datasets updated on ESA Copernicus schedule; supply chain traceability via immutable audit ledger; and automated EUDR XML statement generation with direct submission to the EU EUDR Information System API. The module processes deforestation risk assessments at approximately 50,000 plot queries per hour, enabling enterprise operators with complex supply chains to complete annual EUDR compliance assessment within operational timelines.