Lens Newsletter: October 2025

Thanks for checking out this month’s edition of our Lens newsletter. See the highlights here and scroll on for all the details!

• 🎥 On-demand webinar: Agentic workflows in remote monitoring
• 👩‍🏫 Education: Using NDVI to see more in satellite imagery
• 📚Case studies: See Lens in action!
• 🌱 Where on Earth: Fall festivities have arrived in New England

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What's new

🎥 How AI agents will transform remote monitoring

AI agents are all the rage, but what does agentic AI actually mean? And how will it affect remote monitoring? After developing agentic AI workflows for our monitoring work, our team has insights to share. Check out this on-demand webinar for a deeper understanding of AI agents, lessons from our product development team, and behind-the-scenes look at how AI can scale the impact of monitoring in Lens.

🔔 Automated change detection gets an upgrade: Parcel area change alerts

Through our partnership with Regrid, change in parcel area is now available as a pre-built Lookout policy, designed to help users respond swiftly if the size of a parcel changes, which may indicate a subdivision, consolidation, or change in boundaries from a reassessment.

Education

Blog post: Using NDVI to see more in satellite imagery

Check out this blog post on leveraging vegetation data (NDVI)  to get more out of truecolor satellite imagery.

Case studies: Discover Lens in action

Our case studies are a great way to experience the power of Lens across many use cases. Explore the case studies on our website to see how Lens can support your work.

Recording: Remote monitoring for land trusts

Catch the recording of our recent webinar designed for land trusts. Hear from two of Lens users on how they got started with remote monitoring and the efficiency gains it has brought to their teams.

Where on Earth?

Fall festivities have arrived in full force in New England. The image below shows a corn maze in Massachusetts with lettering that spells "25 amazing years" and "cheers".

Hot tip

The Analysis tool in Lens can provide deeper insights into trends in the areas you monitor over your selected time range.  As we kick of the new USGS water year running from October 1 - September 30, now is a great time to use Lens for Year over year USGS water year data.

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

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Happy monitoring!

- Alison & the Lens Team