Lens
Remote monitoring and reporting for everyone
Lens by Upstream Tech is a remote monitoring platform that helps conservationists, land stewards, and natural resource managers make better, faster decisions using satellite imagery and data.
Features
Access imagery and data from a range of sources
Preview and order high-resolution commercial imagery from trusted providers — and pay only for what you need. Tap into the Lens Library for ecological indices, land cover, forest carbon layers, infrastructure overlays, and more to support baseline assessments and ongoing monitoring. Access the full library of publicly available data sources like Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 on demand, no processing. Learn more →
Explore the Lens Library
Select the imagery and datasets you need. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Add properties
Upload or draw the places you'd like to monitor in Lens, no technical experience needed. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Inspect for changes
Review imagery and data by comparing imagery to look for any unexpected changes on your property. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Collaborate with notes
Document your observations and review past notes from colleagues to track changes over time. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Analyze areas of interest
Analyze trends over time to detect and measure landscape changes such as wildfires, flooding, and restoration progress. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Generate reports
Create clear, customizable reports for record keeping and compliance. Engage stakeholders with comments, imagery, charts, and photos. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Share links
Learn how to access sharing links to your site. With the Share Link in Lens, you can provide a link to a single property with anyone, regardless of whether they have a Lens account. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Receive alerts on vegetation changes
Swiftly respond to vegetation loss events with Vegetation Alerts. Get notified when vegetation vigor drops compared to prior years based on public satellite data. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Know when parcel owners change
Stay on top of any tax parcel ownership changes with quarterly Parcel Owner Alerts, backed by Regrid data in the United States. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Learn more →</span>
Data Partners
Space Intelligence
Planet
Chloris Geospatial
Nearmap
Maxar
Airbus
NASA
ESA
Regrid
USGS/NASA
NatureServe
Impact Observatory
Trusted by
The Trustees of Reservations
Apple
One Tree Planted
American Forest Foundation
US Forest Service
The Nature Conservancy
What our customers say
"Lens rocks! It 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."
"The helpfulness of the Lens team and ease of access to files has made our experience with Lens incredibly positive."
> “**Guaranteed monthly imagery has been a game-changer for us.** We never need to wonder when imagery will be available, and therefore can conduct monitoring throughout the year which has been huge for productivity. We’re able to spot changes such as timber harvests, clearings, and development with the 4m monthly Basemaps."
"Lens' imagery and vegetation alerts have created an opportunity for us to reinforce our relationships with partners and share more information with them on activities happening in their forests. Monitoring using Lens is less invasive for the landowners, and I am able to time my monitoring to coincide with the most useful moment to capture activities on the ground." _Joe Anderson_ **_Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands_**
> ”We discovered a potential violation in a remote area of a large conservation easement property, which may not have been discovered on a ground visit. Overall, Upstream Tech has provided our staff outstanding customer service, responding quickly to any questions or needs. Lens is very user-friendly, and our monitoring staff picked it up easily with little training.”**Stephanie Strickland > **Conservation Easement Program Manager
> “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.”**Andrew Moe > **Stewardship Program Manager
> “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.”**Joel Nystrom > **Conservation Project Manager, San Luis Valley
> “Time is money, and with limited staff, time is capacity. For a program like ours, remote monitoring is a real time saver.” > **Paul Elconin** > Former Director of Land Conservation
> "Having access to high resolution satellite imagery through the Lens platform enables our project managers to assess and monitor high quality planting projects globally and report on forest metrics to our partners and donors. They take on the hard work of remotely sensed data acquisition, processing and interpretation so we can focus on planting trees and supporting our partners." > > **Breece Robertson** > Chief Impact Officer
“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.”