The Terrain Brain™

See where the deer move.

Enter any address. The Terrain Brain™ reads the ridges, draws and timber edges on your ground and draws the runs deer use across it: where they meet, where they cross, where they bed, and which way your scent carries. Reading ground is free with an account.

No address for your ground?

Open the Map Tool, find your ground, tap it, and press Read this ground.

Or paste the spot’s coordinates in the box above, like 38.9926, -93.9532.

  • Google Maps: press and hold on your ground. The numbers show at the top. Tap them to copy, then paste them here.
  • Apple Maps: press and hold to drop a pin, swipe up on it, and copy the coordinates.
  • onX and other hunting apps: tap the spot, and the coordinates are on its card. Copy them.

Works for any US address

A real read in 3D: the deer runs in soft gold across a timbered property and the fields around it, Johnson County, Missouri
A real read in 3D, unedited · Johnson County, Missouri

Runs, and three marks. That is the whole map.

  • Great — deer move here most.

  • Good — the terrain supports it.

Flat ground draws nothing. We would rather show you an empty map than a made-up line.

Funnel
Where two or more runs come together.
Crossing
Where a run crosses a saddle, a creek, a fence, a bluff gap, a beaver dam or a dry neck. The label says which.
Bed
Where a run starts: a point a third of the way down, a cover corner, or in wet ground an island or a hummock.

How it works

Three steps. That's it.

  1. Type an address

    We find the parcel in the county’s records and draw its boundary, with its acres and its owner of record.

  2. We read the ground

    Bare-earth elevation from USGS 3DEP, the leaf-on aerial photograph, mapped water and the deed. The card names each source and dates the photograph.

  3. Hunt the read

    The runs, where they meet and cross, the beds, and the wind, on the map, with a card that says why. Quiet ground is called quiet.

How we measure, and the bars every finding has to clear

Got a property on your mind?

Let's find out what you're really looking at.

Clark Colwell at the wheel of a utility vehicle, his bird dog over his shoulder.

Clark @ Terra Firma Partners

Your neighbor in the land business