Save resources, meet obligations

Remote monitoring has helped TNC to save resources while still meeting our obligations for easement and preserve monitoring. It enables them to be available for other critical stewardship tasks.

Streamlined annual monitoring

Lens has streamlined our annual monitoring process significantly since we implemented it in 2020. We consider it an essential tool for stewarding our land conservation portfolio.

A game-changer for us

Guaranteed monthly imagery has been a game-changer — we never wonder when imagery will be available, can monitor throughout the year, and spot changes like timber harvests, clearings, and development.

Outstanding customer service

We discovered a potential violation in a remote area that may not have been found on a ground visit. Overall, Lens is user-friendly — staff picked it up easily with little training — and Upstream Tech has provided outstanding customer service.

A more resilient monitoring program

I anticipate that Lens will make our monitoring program more resilient to unforeseen circumstances, whether it's as minor as a volunteer who drops out due to a move or a global pandemic that upends the world as we know it.

More efficient and comprehensive

Lens has made the monitoring program at Colorado Open Lands both more efficient and more comprehensive. It allows us to monitor properties economically while providing a perspective that we cannot get with on-the-ground site visits alone.

A real time saver

Time is money, and with limited staff, time is capacity. For a program like ours, remote monitoring is a real time saver.

Improves the focus of ground visits

Lens has been an absolute game changer for The Trustees, helping us manage our 20,000+ acres conservation restrictions, alerting us to structural and development changes, and improving the focus of ground visits.

Essential for stewardship staff

The platform has been essential for our stewardship staff and increases our efficiencies for ensuring 100% monitoring. The Upstream staff have been great to work with and are clearly committed to the success of land trusts.

Better stewardship and revenue outcomes

The State Land Board is using Lens to improve staff effectiveness and efficiency to achieve better stewardship and revenue outcomes for our trust beneficiaries going forward.

Translates directly to more revenue

Having the most up-to-date information is crucial. Bringing that value in is important to our taxing authorities—and it translates directly to more revenue.

Timely, critical decisions

Lens has been an invaluable tool. Reliable satellite data at our fingertips helps us make timely, critical decisions to protect the open spaces our community has entrusted us to protect.

Identify changes across hundreds of properties

Lens and Upstream Tech staff are a critical tool for our Family Forest Carbon Program. Their data, people, and platforms helped us identify changes across hundreds of small landowner properties so we can support our landowners and accurately account for forest carbon changes.

One of the best available

The carbon data available in Lens supports Westervelt's standing as a carbon positive company. In the range of tools and methodologies used in the carbon accounting sector, the Lens platform is one of the best available.

Confident, data-driven decisions

Lens has been a game-changer—easy to use, high-quality imagery, and wonderful customer service. Having a reliable, intuitive tool helps us track progress, document success, and make confident, data-driven decisions for the landscapes we steward.

Exponentially decreased time spent

Lens has exponentially decreased the time that it takes to get the most recent imagery for our projects.