Lens satellite monitoring platform to support conservation and stewardship across Colorado's trust lands
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[Denver, CO, April 21, 2026] - Upstream Tech and the Colorado State Land Board today announced a partnership to deploy Upstream Tech’s Lens land monitoring platform across Colorado's state trust lands.
The Colorado State Land Board manages millions of acres of state trust lands through leasing operations, with stewardship and conservation as a growing priority. Lens will enable State Land Board staff and district managers to monitor properties more frequently and systematically with geospatial data — addressing a longstanding challenge of visiting large, remote properties across the state.
Through the partnership, the State Land Board seeks to proactively detect stewardship issues, expand grazing and rangeland management monitoring, support habitat restoration efforts, and improve broader ecosystem health monitoring capabilities.
The State Land Board is looking forward to using the Lens monitoring platform to improve understanding, monitoring, and management of over 9,000 leases involving 12 business leasing programs across 2.8 million acres in Colorado. We’re eager to improve staff effectiveness and efficiency to achieve better stewardship and revenue outcomes for our trust beneficiaries going forward. — Mindy Gottsegen, Stewardship and Ecosystem Services Manager, State Land Board
We’re excited to partner with Colorado State Land Board, one of the most innovative state land trusts in the U.S. Having started my career stewarding easements across Colorado, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges of monitoring the variety of landscapes in the state. We’re thrilled to support the State Land Board's important stewardship work across Colorado. — Miles van Blarcum, Government Growth & Partnerships Lead, Upstream Tech
Lens combines commercial high-resolution satellite imagery with free public data sources, allowing land managers to prioritize high-risk areas for close monitoring while maintaining broad coverage across their entire portfolio.
About Upstream Tech
Upstream Tech builds tools that help land and conservation organizations monitor and manage land at scale. Lens is used by dozens of organizations and agencies in Colorado to efficiently monitor millions of acres of the state.
About Colorado State Land Board
The Colorado State Land Board is a constitutionally created agency that manages a $6 billion endowment of assets for the intergenerational benefit of Colorado’s K-12 schoolchildren and public institutions. The agency is the second-largest landowner in Colorado and generates revenue on behalf of beneficiaries by leasing three million surface acres and four million subsurface acres for agriculture, grazing, recreation, commercial real estate, rights-of-way, renewable energy, oil, gas, and solid minerals. The agency is entirely self-funded and receives no tax dollars.