Real-time vegetation intelligence, at scale
We analyze all vegetation on Earth to prevent wildfires and power outages, enabling smarter infrastructure management and safer communities.
Satellite Vegetation Management for Electric Utilities
Vegetation is the single greatest contributor to power outages and wildfires caused by our electric grid. Overstory provides utilities with visibility, risk analysis, and optimization recommendations for vegetation management throughout your entire service territory. It does this by applying artificial intelligence to satellite imagery.
Scalable
Quickly and regularly understand the vegetation on your entire network. Overstory can cost-effectively scan your entire territory monthly or even daily.
Accurate
Accurate insights ensure field visits are focused on the most pressing concerns. Our algorithms have been developed in partnership with arborists and forestry professionals globally and tested on over 20,000 miles of T&D right-of-way.
Actionable
Overstory delivers tree-level data on vegetation species, health, height and proximity to line, enabling risk-based planning for vegetation management. We pinpoint grow-in and fall-in risks and perform pruning verification.
Products
Risks and prioritization
Overstory helps utilities transition step-by-step toward a risk-based pruning plan that takes into account your territory’s unique characteristics and your resources. Our product includes a risk prioritization report that can include:
Tree detection
Tree species identification
Tree height
Growth rate
Proximity to the line
Tree vitality and insect infestations
Grow-in risks
Fall-in risks
Outage prediction
Wildfire Mitigation Plan support
PSPS information support
Pruning verification
Post-work audits are labor intensive and often not comprehensive. Overstory makes this easier by verifying whether all the work has been done, and whether the specified standards were met.
Change detection
Requirement verification
Contractor performance
Technology
Overstory uses machine learning to interpret satellite imagery and climate data to extract detailed insights about trees and shrubs.
Our machine learning algorithms are pre-trained with ground measurements from arborists and forestry professionals and the Overstory data repository.
By fusion of data with diverse spatial, spectral and temporal resolution Overstory allows for real-time and predictive insights.
The Overstory technology is set up to extract additional value from other customer data sources such as LiDAR.
Insights are accessed securely via the Overstory platform, or can be easily integrated into existing tools and utility workflows.
Technology partners
We take pride in our numbers
500 M
hectares of land analysed
64
number of countries active in
155
number of cities analysed
Industries
Electric Utilities
Reduce risk of wildfire and power outages with real-time insights into vegetation in and around utility corridors.
Forest Industry
Improve sustainability and efficiency of forest strategy and operation.
Insurance
Data-driven insights into risk and impact of climate events, such as forest fires. Creating efficiencies in risk mitigation, underwriting and claim verification.
Reforestation & Deforestation
Understanding effect and impact of reforestation and detecting and predicting patterns of deforestation.
Customers
Testimonials
“The vegetation management experts have validated the accuracy of the Overstory deliverables for all of Spain, and we’ve confirmed that the accuracy exceeded our expectations. The results from Overstory are currently implemented in the vegetation management cycle for 10,000 miles of powerline.”
— Iago Veiras Lens, Artificial Intelligence Partner, Elewit, Red Eléctrica Group
“We were very impressed with Overstory’s forest health monitoring dashboard and believe it has strong growth potential.”
— Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Senior Director of European Affairs at Planet
Contact us
Contact us to book in a demo or to learn more about how Overstory can help your business.