LAND INTELLIGENCE — MOORE COUNTY, NC

Vegetation & Canopy Assessment in Moore County, NC

A vegetation and canopy assessment measures cover from satellite imagery (NDVI) and reads it alongside the parcel record — what is wooded, what is open, and where vegetation is a cost, a risk, or an asset — with the limits of imagery stated plainly.

What this looks like in Moore County

Moore County's canopy is a working landscape: longleaf pine savanna around Weymouth Woods and the Sandhills preserves, managed pine and fairway edges in the golf communities, and dense creek-bottom hardwoods along the Little River. A canopy assessment reads NDVI cover with a Sandhills caveat stated up front — sparse wiregrass groundcover over pale sand reads 'bare' to imagery that the same signal in a clay county would not — so cover percentages for a Southern Pines or Carthage parcel come with the image date, the season, and what the signal can and cannot prove.

Serving Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Carthage, Whispering Pines, Vass and the rest of Moore County from our base in Candor.

Common questions

Can imagery replace a site walk?

No. It screens and prioritizes; field verification decides. The report labels imagery findings as observations, not facts on the ground.

What is NDVI?

A vegetation index from satellite imagery — a measure of green cover, useful for comparing areas and change over time.

Do you do the clearing/management work too?

Yes — Right Hand Services is a field-services business first. The assessment can scope the work; the report fee tiers are separate from job quotes.

Start with the free preliminary summary

Tell us the property and we will email the headlines — parcel, zoning, flood, and soils — after a human review.

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PROPERTY REPORTS

Order a property report

Pick a tier, check out, and tell us the property address or parcel ID and county at checkout. Your report is built from public records — GIS parcel data, zoning, flood, soils, and modelled drainage — with the source on every number, and reviewed by JP before it reaches your inbox.

Preliminary Property Report — $49

PDF within 2 business days

  • Parcel & GIS summary
  • Zoning + setbacks
  • Flood zone & FIRM panel
  • Soils + hydrologic group
  • Topography & modelled drainage outlet

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Full Property Dossier PDF — $149

PDF within 3–5 business days

  • Everything in Preliminary
  • NDVI vegetation cover
  • Section risk scores S1–S8
  • Underground evidence tiers T0–T4
  • Forecast timeline + claims-register footer

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Dossier + Walkthrough Call — $299

Dossier in 3–5 business days, call scheduled with delivery

  • Everything in the Full Dossier
  • 30-minute walkthrough call with JP
  • Fee credited toward an audit or job booked within 60 days

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Data evaluation from public records and modelled analysis. Not a survey, not a legal zoning determination, not an engineering design. Modelled drainage is MODELLED, NOT SURVEYED. Every report is human-reviewed before it is sent.