PlanetScope Basemaps in Lens

Upstream Tech’s Lens provides easy access to remote sensing data and the tools you need for monitoring to help you quickly turn data into decisions.

From conservation to restoration to land management, Lens is used by hundreds of organizations today to drive greater accountability, efficiency, and ambitious environmental outcomes.

Access imagery and data from a range of sources, compare different time periods to see change, analyze data trends, receive alerts for vegetation loss events, and create polished reports to share with stakeholders.

With the addition of global, monthly mosaics from Planet, exploring and monitoring your properties from anywhere in the world has never been easier.

PlanetScope Basemaps are built from the most recent satellite imagery from around the world, ready to be instantly applied to your portfolios in Lens. Adding 4-meter Planet monthly basemaps to Lens makes it possible to efficiently monitor and report on changes anywhere in the world.

How does it work?

PlanetScope visual basemaps are time series mosaic products created from all scene captures within the month, optimized for consistency and minimal cloud cover. This is a premium layer that is billed monthly or annually, and customers who enroll will automatically receive new imagery for all properties in their account every month. PlanetScope mosaics are ideal for organizations with large holdings who are interested in high-frequency insights to identify landscape changes.