Case Study: Northern Arizona University eliminates a year of custom development with Felt

How NAU Eliminated a Year of Custom Development by Building EcoMonitor with Felt

Northern Arizona University's Ecosystem Science and Innovation Lab faced the challenge of visualizing hundreds of terabytes of real-time satellite data to monitor plant health for wildfire prevention. The team needed a performant solution to stream, style, and display this vast amount of raster data in an intuitive dashboard without embarking on a complex, year-long custom development project.

By using Felt's streaming COGs and raster styling capabilities, the university integrated its data directly into the platform. The solution, built in just two weeks by a non-programmer, eliminated an estimated year of custom development work and over $200,000 in costs for the state. Felt enabled the lab to quickly deploy its EcoMonitor tool, allowing forest managers to make data-driven decisions with greater efficiency and precision.

Northern Arizona University

Amy Wolkowinsky

Associate Director