Lens newsletter: May 2025

Alison O'Neill
May 6, 2025
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What's new

🗺️ Space Intelligence land cover data

This land cover dataset from Space Intelligence maps habitat types for available countries with 10m spatial resolution. Each map involves tens of thousands of manually checked training and testing polygons, selected by ecological experts within the Space Intelligence team. These polygons focus on the transitions between ecological classes, producing maps with minimum confusion between hard to separate classes such as tree crops and natural forest. Customers on Standard and Enterprise plans can order this dataset by request - please see our support article for more information on how to get started.

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🏠 New navigation menu

Getting around Lens is easier than ever with the new navigation menu. Quickly open up your list of portfolios, visit the Library, or check any of your organization's Settings from the new sidebar.

Upcoming webinar

📽️ Automated change detection with Lens Lookout

May 21 | 12pm (EST)

Join Katie Tyler from our Customer Success team to learn about how to use Lens Lookout, our automated change detection tool. She'll cover examples of how to use Lookouts to detect a variety of activity including forestry, fire, flooding, and more.

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Education

Lab for Lens: Introduction to easement monitoring

Further expand on your understanding of remote easement monitoring or help get a new team member quickly trained up with this hands-on tutorial.

Webinar: Carbon project diligence with Chloris

Check out the recording of our latest webinar with Chloris, where we cover data specifics and example carbon diligence projects.


Where on Earth?

In a belated recognition of Earth Day, we're highlighting an example of restoration efforts along the Cuyahoga River in Ohio. The Cuyahoga winds through Cascade Valley, where a former golf course has undergone an ecological restoration project to restore wetlands and native vegetation. Check out the share link below to see the area in more detail, and head to this support article for more info on how to create your own share link!

Hot tip

If your organization uses Landscape, you can integrate your account with Lens! The Landscape team recently released an updated version of the integration that streams your Lens notes directly into Landscape, as well as a new integration that streams imagery from Lens into Landscape. The integrations help streamline all of your monitoring information and enable easier reporting out of Landscape. Check out our support article for steps to get started or reach out to lens@upstream.tech for help.

Lens notes in the Landscape platform.

Check out the rest of our knowledge base to learn more about working in Lens, and know that you can always reach us at lens@upstream.tech with any questions.

Happy monitoring!