Key Highlights
- Atlas 1.0 is the second generation of Lemu's Nature Intelligence Platform, shaped by a first year that reached 500,000 hectares under active monitoring across seven countries, 143,000 biodiversity observations of nearly 7,000 species, and 92 scientific findings used for planning and risk management
- New capabilities include native support for audio, video, and image data — enabling camera traps, bioacoustics, and structured sampling such as eDNA — a responsive interface, the first four State of Nature indicators aligned with the Nature Positive Initiative, and a tenfold improvement in geospatial data loading
- Atlas Open Nature, a new public-facing layer built after customers asked to disclose their conservation data, debuts with Arauco as its first participant
Frutillar and Santiago, Chile — April 22, 2026 — Lemu, the Latin American Nature Tech company behind the world's first biodiversity satellite, today announced the launch of Atlas 1.0, the second generation of its Nature Intelligence Platform. The announcement was made on Earth Day before more than 100 attendees from the private sector, NGOs, academia, and public institutions in Santiago, Chile.
Atlas 1.0 follows a first year in which Atlas grew from zero to 500,000 hectares under active monitoring across seven countries. The new version was shaped by more than 50 customer feedback sessions, 80 prioritised requirements, and 40 user satisfaction surveys collected during the Atlas 0.1 cycle.
From pilot to operational backbone
Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, adopted Atlas as the backbone of its Nature and Biodiversity Strategy 2026 and became the first operational customer of Lemu Nge, Lemu's hyperspectral satellite. Hyperspectral monitoring of the El Teniente Division was performed with three weeks between captures, demonstrating that Lemu Nge can deliver operational time series for mining.
“Until tools like Lemu existed, understanding what we have was far more complex and less efficient. Now we can monitor the 5,000 hectares of the Roblerías, the 23,000 hectares of El Teniente — and eventually the 2.9 million hectares of Codelco land in Chile,” said María José Ruiz-Esquide, Director of Climate Change and Decarbonisation at Codelco.
What Atlas 1.0 keeps — and what it adds
Atlas 0.1 launched on 25 January 2025. In its first year, it was used by 187 users from more than 25 organisations spanning forestry, mining, energy, agriculture, financial services, and professional services. The monitored hectares carry an average LemuRank — Lemu’s conservation priority indicator — of 64%, and account for more than 35 million tonnes of carbon stock. Across the year, Atlas produced 92 scientific findings drawn from 143,000 biodiversity observations of nearly 7,000 species, 51% of them on the IUCN Red List.
Atlas 1.0 retains what customers valued: a single source of truth for nature data regardless of provenance or format, indicators with up to four decades of history, end-to-end scientific traceability, and narrative findings rather than raw tables. It adds a responsive interface that works in the field, native handling of audio, video, and image data — enabling the integration of camera traps and bioacoustic recordings alongside structured sampling methods such as environmental DNA — and a tenfold improvement in load speed. The platform currently offers 23 key indicators spanning eight dimensions — Water, Biodiversity, Carbon, Climate, Fire, Vegetation, Risks, and Monitoring — with more than 30 expected in the near term. The first four State of Nature indicators, including species extinction risk and landscape integrity, align with the Nature Positive Initiative framework.
“We called the first version Atlas 0.1 because we knew the first generation would be a learning experience. A year of real use told us what to keep, what to fix, and what was missing. Atlas 1.0 is what our customers asked us to build,” said Leo Prieto, Founder and CEO at Lemu.
Atlas Open Nature: when customers asked to go public
Atlas was originally built for internal customer use. When customers — starting with Arauco — asked to make their conservation data public, Lemu rearchitected the platform for modular, secure, multi-audience access. The result is Atlas Open Nature: customers choose which projects and data sets to publish, with optional download access. The public interface is functionally close to the customer interface — the difference is who chose to make the data visible.
“How do you connect a camera-trap sighting with bioacoustics, with environmental DNA? That's where Atlas comes in for us. It lets us take our high-value conservation areas, centralize the data, keep it historical — and finally disclose it,” said Guillermo Olmedo, Environmental and Social Value Manager at Arauco.
Arauco, Latin America's largest timber forest operator, has 91,859 hectares of high conservation value live on Atlas across 20 zones and is the first customer to publish data through Open Nature.
Spacetime-ready
Atlas 1.0 is Spacetime-ready. Spacetime is Lemu's proprietary 4D data protocol that organises nature observations across space and time as a single coordinate system. The migration of existing data layers onto Spacetime is underway, and every new indicator from this release forward is Spacetime-native — ensuring coherence, interoperability, and the scientific integrity required to support auditable long-term monitoring.
“That gap between sustainability reporting and operational business decisions is why we built our alliance with Lemu: to bring this platform, and all the wisdom Lemu has accumulated, to our clients. Atlas lets us look at things many of them had never seen before — and use that data intelligently,” said Pamela Méndez, Partner and Sustainability Leader at EY Chile.
EY Chile uses Atlas across three live sector cases — agriculture, energy, and mining — aligned with TNFD, CSRD, and IFRS S1/S2.
Earth Day use cases
Three enterprise customers presented their Atlas use cases at the Santiago event:
- Arauco (Chile, Argentina and Brazil): Arauco monitors 91,859 hectares of high conservation value across four countries, integrating camera traps, eDNA, bioacoustics, and satellite imagery — and becomes the first customer to disclose data through Atlas Open Nature.
- EY Chile: EY Chile deploys Atlas across three sector (agriculture, energy, and mining sites) cases to close the gap between sustainability reporting and operational decisions, aligned with TNFD, CSRD, and IFRS S1/S2.
- Codelco: Codelco adopts Atlas as the backbone of its Nature and Biodiversity Strategy and becomes the first operational customer of Lemu Nge, with hyperspectral monitoring at three-week intervals.
Closing the nature data gap
Atlas 1.0 advances Lemu’s mission to monitor and help finance the conservation of 1% of the Earth's land surface by 2033. Atlas 0.1 proved the model with anchor customers. Atlas 1.0 is the version built to scale it — across geographies, industries, and through Open Nature, to the public.
About Lemu
Lemu is a company making nature visible in every decision. Through its Nature Intelligence Platform, Atlas, and its hyperspectral satellite Lemu Nge, Lemu transforms complex environmental data into clear, actionable insights. By combining AI, satellite data, and ecological science, Lemu brings Nature Intelligence to Business Intelligence — helping companies, governments, and communities understand, protect, and regenerate the living systems we all depend on.
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