Land is scarce...
Plan for tomorrow, today

Plan sustainable land use, from solar farms and housing to forest carbon and conservation land, with the help of machine learning

In the era of finite resources and fragmented property ownership, strategic site selection underpins sustainable development. Our platform transforms the precision of an accurate parcel map into a dynamic tool anticipating the future of real estate development.  Alongside the context of optimal sites for solar, residential, and conservation land, our users harness the full natural capital of every acre and find clarity about land in an uncertain future.

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A map depicting the opportunity cost of deforestation in the northeast US in terms of CO2 equivalent by 2050.
A map depicting the opportunity cost of deforestation in the northeast US in terms of CO2 equivalent by 2050.

The cost of unsustainable development in North America between now and 2050:

Over $90 Billion 
Just in CO2 emissions...
A graph showing forest growth and carbon sequestration over time. 3 scenarios are shown in lines on an x-y axis: a business-as-usual scenario of deforestation, a conservation scenario, and an improved forest management scenario.

Our users measure additionality

Launch and support premium nature-based solutions for climate change, using AI that measures additionality for every project to protect and restore forests. Maximize the impact of dollars on carbon sequestration while minimizing risk.
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Our users plan climate-smart sites

Strategically select sites for sustainable development like housing and clean energy to align profit with climate goals and resources, fostering confidence with local stakeholders. Focus on highly developable properties with the lowest negative impacts for nature and the environment,
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A digitized map of the energy grid, including solar farms, transmission lines, nearby substations, wind farms, and streets and housing. Colored in greyscale to highlight building and infrastructure electrification.
A Black-throated Green Warbler with nest building materials sitting on the log of a forest in the northeast US. Photo courtesy of Greg Sanda.

Our users improve connectivity

Map and visualize connected networks of properties that are critical for your objectives. Link together fragmented parcels, address vulnerabilities, and unlock opportunities to make farmland, energy, and conservation sites more connected, cost-effective, and resilient.
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Land Use Intelligence

Transparent AI

Don't just guess which properties will be developed... Stay one step ahead of the competition, and understand why. Justify carbon and conservation projects with automatic detailed and logical risk factors, more accurately pre-qualify landowners for your next community solar campaign, or proactively guide development and mitigation projects in your community.

Balance Competing Priority Metrics

Decisions that permanently affect open space - whether through real estate development or conservation - always come with trade-offs. Configure your site search to optimize for multiple impact dimensions, including climate, food, and energy. Upstream Carbon will do the heavy lifting and rank sites based on your objectives, so that you don't have to deal with consolidating different raster or vector data sources. Plus, you can keep the data outputs!

Neighbors Matter

Upstream Carbon goes beyond parcels. Have you ever needed to measure patterns of Current Use program enrollment in a farming corridor, account for adjacent conservation land, or had your planning frustrated by small, fragmented properties? Us too, so we designed the system to analyze relationships between groups of nearby properties and find shared connections.

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