From eyes in the sky to boots on the ground: a closed loop with Overstory and Fulcrum

Overhead imagery shows which trees threaten your lines, but it misses the spans crews cleared this morning. It also can’t show the dead oak a crew found that the imagery never caught. Until field results reach the model, your vegetation management program runs on a risk picture that lags the work.

Overstory, a vegetation intelligence platform, applies AI to overhead aerial imagery to assess risk tree by tree across entire service territories. Fulcrum, the Field Operations Management platform, puts Overstory’s priorities in front of the trim crews doing the work. When crews close out jobs in Fulcrum, the results flow straight back to Overstory and the risk picture updates.

Overstory and Fulcrum will walk through the full connection in this webinar, from imagery to the field and back again. AEP Texas, a customer of both companies, joins us to share how a utility puts the two platforms to work.

What you’ll learn

• Tree-level risk. See how Overstory identifies encroachment and hazard trees and ranks spans by outage and wildfire risk.
• Priorities in the field. Watch trim crews work Overstory’s priorities in Fulcrum, online or off, and record clearances, removals, and photos.
• Field findings that reach the model. Learn how field findings, including hazards the imagery missed, reach the risk model when crews close out jobs.
• Uses beyond cycle trim. Find out where the same approach pays off in hot-spot work, wildfire-season patrols, post-storm hazard trees, and contractor audits.

Who should attend

We built this session for vegetation management program managers at electric utilities and the contractors who work for them. If your team plans trim cycles from imagery and tracks completed work separately, you’ll see how to connect the two.