November Newsletter: New Forest Carbon Data, Visualizing Sub-basins & More

Fall is flying by and it's brought a slew of exciting updates for Upstream Tech. We’re thrilled to announce the close of our recent fundraise , which provides us with the resources to continue bringing you the best environmental software tools. It's a great time for us to reflect on how we should grow as a team (we're hiring ), and how our products should continue to grow as well.

Lens

The latest news from Lens. Questions? Email us at?[email protected] .

Planet Forest Carbon Diligence data is now available

We're excited to share that Planet's Forest Carbon Diligence data?is now available in Lens ?with global coverage! This product includes annual 30m Canopy Height, Canopy Cover, and Aboveground Carbon data going back to 2013. At only $0.04/acre, you can purchase it directly through the Order pane in Lens just like a commercial image. With your first order of Forest Carbon Diligence, you will receive the most recent available year plus the entire historical archive as an added bonus. To add Planet’s Forest Carbon Diligence package to your account,?find it in the Layers Library here .

100% US parcel data coverage from Regrid

Having the?Parcel Data Overlay ?at your fingertips in Lens is handy enough as it is, but our partners at?Regrid?have achieved the unthinkable: 100% parcel data coverage of all counties in the United States. This is an incredible feat considering that many counties don't have publicly accessible assessor data. You can now use Lens to visualize ownership in states where that was previously tricky, like New Hampshire. Regrid's data is also used in our Parcel Owner Alert feature, which automates the process of spotting changes in ownership.

More Analyze Area updates:

1. New selection tools for Analyze Area. When you open up the Analyze Area tool, you can now choose between drawing a polygon, selecting the entire property, or selecting an overlay polygon. You can select project boundaries, building envelopes, timber areas, or any other closed-polygon overlays that you?upload . Overlays allow you to repeatedly analyze the same area of interest without having to redraw.
2. Y-axis fit. You can now adjust the y-axis of Analyze Area charts to more easily see subtle trends.
3. Multi-polygon notes can now be saved. Analyzing an overlay or property that consists of multiple polygons? You can now save multi-polygon Analyze Area charts as notes!

New Mines Overlay added to Lens Library

This dataset includes mines and mineral resource sites, including manufacturing plants, across the United States. It was last updated in June of 2017. This data is made available by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Geospatial Management Office's Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data portal. Learn more about the new overlay here .

End-of-year Deals

Lens referral program

Know of another organization that would benefit from Lens? Between now and the end of the year, if you refer them to Lens and they mention that upon signup, you will receive a $750 account credit. If you have any questions, reach out to us at [email protected] .

Discount on Lens Plus for existing Focus customers

Interested in Lens Plus? Now is a great time to upgrade while we're running a?$1000?discount on Lens Plus annual plans. Lens Plus includes vegetation drop alerts, parcel ownership data, parcel owner alerts, streaming of commercial imagery into GIS, and more. See our article about Plus features?here . Curious to learn more? Book a demo with one of our experts !

Hot Tip??? from Miles van Blarcum, Lens Customer Success Lead

Did you know that you can add new layers while uploading new properties? To the left of the green Confirm button, you can choose layers that will be processed for your new properties. This may be handy if you're uploading new properties specifically for the new Forest Carbon Diligence data.?

HydroForecast

The latest news from HydroForecast. Questions? Email us at:?[email protected] .

Feature Spotlight: Visualize the full contributing area for your forecast points

Our distributed short-term model breaks up large basins into smaller sub-basins to capture variance in basin characteristics and data inputs. This month we released an update to the dashboard map to display boundary outlines highlighting the contributing sub-basins that drain to each flow forecast point.

• When the flow forecast point is selected, every sub-basin within its drainage area will be highlighted blue.
• When a single sub-basin is selected, scroll down to view weather inputs and surface observations averaged across just the selected area.
• Coming soon - average weather across the drainage area: next up we plan to display weather averaged over the drainage basin’s area for each flow forecast point. Stay tuned for updates!

A deep dive into HydroForecast Seasonal

We’re continuously working on R&D to improve our seasonal modeling approach, which involves shipping updates to all operational models. Check out our latest insight that gives a deep dive into how the latest version of HydroForecast Seasonal works.

Conference Roundup

Clean Currents

The National Hydropower Association’s annual Clean Currents conference in Cincinnati, Ohio in October was energizing as always. One of our favorite sessions was the Water Resources panel, which included a presentation from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Dan Broman on how improvements in forecasting translate into higher earnings for hydropower operators.

Dan shared findings from research he conducted that shows HydroForecast earning operators up to 2% more each year from optimizing trading, which is only one of many ways in which operators can harness better forecasts to increase revenue.

HYDRO 2023

The International Journal on Hydropower & Dams hosted their annual conference last month. The event took place in Edinburgh Scotland and included a presentation from our very own Devin Copenhaver, who spoke about how operators can improve revenue and safety with advanced inflow forecasting. 1100 people attended from over 70 countries, making HYDRO 2023 a truly global gathering for the industry at large.

Stay tuned for our upcoming video series “Decoding AI and hydrology for water management decisions”

In a new virtual series, we’ll break down how machine learning differs from conceptual models, how it applies to hydrology, and walk you through our theory-guided machine learning approach. Brush up on AI and neural networks in our recent article , and stay tuned for the premiere of the new series!

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Cheers,

The Upstream Tech team