For those of us in the northern hemisphere, we hope you’re enjoying longer and warmer days. Your Planscape team has been cranking on lots of exciting new developments - some of which we’ll share here:
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Data Layers in Treatment Impacts
We launched Treatment Impacts Planning, and Treatment Effects Analysis over a 20 year future time horizon earlier this year. The user response has been really enthusiastic - one piece of feedback we heard was a desire to combine a view of data layers with the treatment plans.
You can now toggle on/off any data layer and show it behind your project area as you choose treatments for each stand, and you can change the opacity of your treatments to check underlying data as you work. These layers are accessible on both the Treatment Plan Overview Page and the Project Area Page, providing valuable context throughout the planning process. Let us know what you think!
Who is using Planscape?
We typically see 500-1,000 users of the platform each month, which we believe is a healthy slice of the landscape planning community in California. Here is a snapshot of some recent organizations using Planscape. The collaboration features of the platform are built in acknowledgment that projects are often worked on by individuals across a range of organizations, working together.
TNC case study
One long time user of the platform is The Nature Conservancy. We recently published a case study describing how they use Planscape to help TNC determine the optimal sites for prescribed burning across California.
Analysis of the percent of the four management strategies across each TNC property. The x-axis is individual TNC properties in California including lands owned in fee, conservation easements, and lands with management agreements, sorted by the largest percent of adapt. The y-axis is the percent of the property in adapt, monitor, protect, or transform strategies.
“TNC plans to use the Planscape tool to help select additional properties that are a priority for prescribed fire projects in California. TNC staff can then use local information to identify the exact locations of where fire can be put on the ground, at what frequency, and under what prescription.”
To date, Planscape has been only available in California. Our team have been busy as beavers (more on them soon 🦫) building the platform to cover the CONUS (contiguous) USA.
If you’re outside of California and itching to use the platform, please drop us a note and we may be able to include you in some testing.
A: Because they always get stumped! 😎
As always, we welcome questions, feedback and suggestions.
