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id: engines/invest
about:
  label: InVEST
  description: >-
    Maps and values ecosystem services in terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and
    urban settings.
tool:
  form: Open ecosystem-service models
  group: Ecosystems and land
  audiences:
    - government
    - research
    - civic
    - corporate
  homepage: 'https://naturalcapitalalliance.stanford.edu/software'
domains:
  - food
relations:
  - predicate: answers
    target: questions/land-use-change
provenance:
  origin: survey
  sources:
    - title: 'Natural Capital Alliance: InVEST software and data'
      url: 'https://naturalcapitalalliance.stanford.edu/software'
  reviewed: 2026-09
  reviewed_by: 'survey draft, not yet rechecked'
  status: proposed
---
A model suite for land-management and conservation analysis.

Open ecosystem-service models. Listed in the survey under "Ecosystems and land". Audiences named there: government, research, civic, corporate.