Nonprofit
You shouldn’t need a large staff to manage a large landscape. We help conservation nonprofits monitor all of their land in near real time.
Environmental intelligence for nonprofits
Most conservation nonprofits are managing more land than their teams can physically cover. Easements go unchecked for months. Restoration progress is hard to verify from a desk. Encroachments happen before anyone notices.
We help land trusts, conservation organizations, and environmental nonprofits close that gap — using near-daily satellite imagery and geo-AI to monitor the land they’re responsible for, catch problems before they become crises, and generate the verifiable data that backs up their stewardship work. All without requiring an enterprise IT budget or an in-house GIS team.
How Skytec can help nonprofits
Easement monitoring
Monitoring a conservation easement used to mean scheduling annual, in-person site visits. With Ranger®, you get near-daily eyes on every easement in your portfolio.
Restoration tracking
We use before-and-after satellite analysis to track restoration progress at the landscape scale. You get a verifiable, time-stamped record of the work your organization is doing on the ground.
Boundary protection
Boundaries get pushed slowly over time. With our change detection platform, Ranger®, you’re alerted to issues right away, instead of finding out about problems years later.
Our partners provide significant savings to nonprofits
Thanks to our partnerships with Esri and Planet, we’re proud to be able to pass along significant savings to our nonprofit clients.
Eligible nonprofit organizations may pay just a fraction of what other organizations are paying for software licenses and imagery. Get in touch to learn more about our discounted rates for nonprofits.
client spotlight
How Skytec helped ACI site their remote bird observatory
The Appalachian Conservation Institute needed to identify the optimal location for a remote bird observatory within their almost 11,000 protected acres. We used high-resolution satellite imagery and spatial analysis to evaluate candidate sites without requiring extensive field surveys.
The result: a data-backed site selection that saved ACI months of ground-truthing and gave their team confidence in the decision before a single post was placed.
Testimonials
What our clients have to say
Without Skytec and their innovation and ideas, we simply would not be in the leadership position of supply chain visibility that we find ourselves in today.
Jeremy Poirier
Sr Manager Fiber Certification and Sustainability
Skytec has been a trusted geospatial partner for over a decade. Their team consistently delivers precise, practical, and reliable solutions that help turn complex geospatial data into confident project tools that inform decision-making in natural and water resources management, ecological restoration, and engineering.
David Vance
Senior Consultant at Geosyntec Consultants
Co-Founder at Keystone Collaborative
Skytec’s urban tree canopy assessment provided a trustworthy, clear path forward for our community. By establishing a transparent and easily reproducible model, our team now has the foundational data we need to help guide our recommendations for post-storm restoration and urban forestry planning.
Keith Aitken
Urban Forester
Skytec provided satellite-based monitoring to assess indices of pond algal growth as part of the deployment of our MANTA drone. Skytec has the unique ability to interpret environmental data and create user-friendly dashboards. In the future, every time we submit a grant proposal, there will be a budget line item for Skytec to do remote monitoring and some type of product validation.
Kendall Byrd
Chief Executive Officer
We’re a small organization with a lot of land. It’s not feasible for us to rely solely on patrolling our boundary lines on foot. With Skytec, we have extra eyes in the sky on our properties basically at all times. We catch issues early and notify state foresters quickly.
Eliot Berz
Executive Director
Skytec gave us the ability to identify our key habitats, such as our mountain bogs, our hemlock groves, our rhododendron, our bluff lines where neotropical bird species are coming through. With Skytec’s help, we decided where to construct our bird laboratory based on where we wanted people to enter our property and where we wanted to conduct our research.
Quentin Miller
Associate Director
Frequently asked questions
Yes, some of our most meaningful work is with smaller organizations managing significant land portfolios. We don’t have a minimum acreage requirement, and our pricing is structured to be accessible at different scales. Whether you’re a small land trust monitoring a few thousand acres or a regional conservancy managing hundreds of thousands, we can build a monitoring approach that fits your portfolio and your budget.
Absolutely. You don’t need an in-house GIS team to work with us. Our team handles the technical work — from satellite imagery processing to AI-driven change detection — and delivers results in formats your team can understand and act on. If you do have GIS staff, everything we produce integrates natively with ArcGIS, so it works within what you’re already using.
Yes. We believe the organizations responsible for stewarding our most important landscapes shouldn’t be priced out of the tools they need. We offer discounted pricing for qualifying nonprofit and conservation organizations. Contact us to learn more about eligibility.
