We're excited to announce that Lens now integrates with DroneDeploy, giving teams that fly drones an easy way to bring that imagery into their remote monitoring workflow.
Satellite imagery is what makes it possible to monitor land at scale, but it isn't the only tool worth having on hand. Drone imagery captures what satellite data sometimes can't: tighter timing, sharper resolution and the ability to document exactly the site conditions your team cares about.
- Tighter timing. A drone can be in the air within hours of an event your team needs to see, whether that's flying a burn unit right after a prescribed fire or checking a site the moment a storm passes, rather than waiting on the next satellite pass.
- Sharper resolution. Drone imagery can pick up detail that satellite resolution simply can't, from individual tree crowns and small-scale erosion to the condition of a specific structure or stretch of fence line.
- Documenting exact site conditions. Teams can fly the specific paths or areas that matter most to them, and capture more than truecolor imagery. Infrared and multispectral drone captures, for example, can flag stressed or unhealthy vegetation in detail well before it's visible to the naked eye.
Conservation, agriculture, and land management teams have already been putting drones to work in exactly these ways. It's a powerful complement to the broader, more consistent view that satellite monitoring provides.
Many of the organizations we work with are already flying drones and managing that imagery in DroneDeploy, and until now, that meant keeping it separate from the rest of their monitoring work. This partnership closes that gap. Drone captures become part of the same monitoring history, alerts and reporting your team already relies on in Lens.
“We're glad to be partnering with DroneDeploy, a platform so widely used and trusted for drone data capture, and we think this is a meaningful step toward giving our customers one place to bring together every data source relevant to their work.” — Eve Boyce-Ratliff, Director of Growth and Partnerships at Upstream Tech
“Partnering with Lens opens up more options for our customers. A lot of the teams doing conservation and land management work are already flying drones to map their sites, and now that imagery can be brought into Lens, right alongside the rest of their monitoring record. We're excited that they'll have an even fuller picture of what's happening on the ground.” — Kristin Pedersen, Program Manager of Social Impact, DroneDeploy
Get started
With this new, one way integration, drone imagery stored in DroneDeploy automatically appears in Lens for any property that shares a footprint with the image. We’re starting with truecolor drone imagery, and our team can work with you to bring in additional captures that support your specific work.
To learn more about bringing your drone imagery into Lens, reach out to our team.
