Tributary provides a cloud‑native platform that quantifies water benefits from forest and landscape restoration projects using remote sensing, hydrological modeling, and machine learning.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Land and water managers lack reliable, timely data to quantify how forest and landscape restoration projects affect downstream water quantity and quality, making it difficult to validate investment outcomes and inform adaptive management.
Solution
Tributary offers a platform that verifies water benefits from forest and landscape investments by combining remote sensing, hydrological modeling, and machine learning. The patented, rapidly deployable technology ingests satellite imagery and on‑ground data, runs calibrated watershed models, and generates quantitative metrics of water yield, runoff reduction, and pollutant filtration attributable to specific land‑use actions. Results are delivered through an interactive dashboard that visualizes spatial impacts, tracks changes over time, and provides exportable reports for stakeholders. By integrating with utilities, government agencies, corporations, and NGOs, the platform supports evidence‑based decision‑making and compliance reporting for watershed restoration initiatives.
Target Audience
Primary customers are utilities, government water agencies, corporations with watershed‑related ESG commitments, and NGOs managing forest restoration projects that require verified water impact data.
Features
- Automated ingestion of multispectral satellite data for vegetation health and land‑cover change detection
- Physically based hydrological models calibrated with local climate and soil datasets
- Machine‑learning algorithms that attribute observed water outcomes to specific restoration interventions
- Patented, cloud‑native processing pipeline that can be deployed within days of project initiation
- Interactive web dashboard with map visualizations, time‑series analytics, and downloadable compliance reports
- API integrations for utilities, regulatory bodies, and corporate ESG reporting systems