The platform
A closer look at how Canopulse works.
The homepage is the short version. This page walks through the full workflow, the deliverables, the transparency, and who it is for.
Planning workflow
One workspace for source-grounded screening.
Canopulse is built around one job: move a team from public datasets to an inspectable tract package without hiding uncertainty or inventing certainty.
Canopulse operating view
UCRI tract evidence pipeline
01
Find the tract
Search by county, city/place, tract number, or GEOID and inspect the tract-level UCRI record.
02
Read the drivers
See which measured components are pushing the score and which are less dominant.
03
Create evidence
Open a print-ready screening report with confidence, sources, limitations, and next analysis.
04
Export the record
Move JSON, CSV, batch summaries, and source tables into planning and grant workflows.
Five weighted signals
0-100 percentile scale
Environmental burden uses CalEnviroScreen 5.0 Pollution Burden percentile.
The workflow supports screening and planning. Site-level feasibility, ownership, utilities, cost, regulatory review, and community input remain separate checks.
Inspect validationWhy this tract, not that tract?
Two California tracts. One transparent answer.
Compare current California UCRI records from different counties and see how the five statewide component percentiles flow into each released score.
Report-ready deliverables
Exports that look like planning work, not screenshots.
The reporting layer is designed to make UCRI inspectable: score, rank, confidence, component math, raw indicators, source lineage, and limitations stay together.
Executive screening summary
Dominant drivers and weighted points
On-the-ground conditions
State, county, and place comparison
Planning interpretation and limitations
Method and source appendix
Reports support screening and planning. They do not determine final site selection, project feasibility, funding approval, parcel ownership, cost, regulatory compliance, or community acceptance.
California UCRI tract report
Tract 4, Fresno County
1.0% canopy cover
CDC SVI percentile 100.0
118.5°F summer LST
Report and audit exports
Browser print-ready report
Batch audit rows and metadata
Review-ready batch workbook
Model, source, and report identifiers
Start with one tract or paste a whole study area.
Generate planning-support language, compare high-priority records, and keep invalid or provisional tracts visible instead of quietly dropping them.
California report output
Open the report output. This is the released workflow.
A current California UCRI example for Fresno Census Tract 4, GEOID 06019000400. Every displayed score, rank, component, raw condition, and release label is copied from the released tract record.
California UCRI | sample tract report
Tract 4, Fresno County
GEOID 06019000400 | Fresno, California
89.0
UCRI | Extreme
State rank
#118
County rank
#1
Place rank
#1
Confidence
Moderate
Largest weighted drivers
Current public release: July 2026
Environmental burden source release: July 1, 2026
Sample generated July 20, 2026
Canopy cover
1.0%
Summer LST
118.5°F
Impervious
75.4%
CDC SVI
100.0
CES burden
99.3
- California tract reportPrint-ready maps, ranks, drivers, raw values, provenance, limitations, and audit ID
- Area report viewsCounty and city/place summaries with explicitly labeled aggregation methods
- California CSV exportsReleased tract and selected-area records for analysis workflows
- Source registry CSVNamed products, vintages, units, licenses, documentation, and source access
- Model registry JSONVersion separation, formulas, scaling scopes, and release dates
- Methodology PDFFormula, source roles, release controls, and interpretation limits
- Audit recordModel version, generated time, geography identifier, and frozen release context
Report outputs organize released screening records. They do not establish parcel conditions, program eligibility, compliance, medical risk, official designation, or project outcomes.
Where Canopulse fits
How Canopulse works alongside existing tools.
Established tools each cover part of the picture. Canopulse brings the physical and equity signals into one screening workflow, then turns the result into deliverables.
Field comparison · capability matrix
| Capability | Canopulse | Tree Equity Score | i-Tree | CalEnviroScreen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tract-level screening score | ||||
| Combines canopy, heat, and equity | ||||
| Print-ready screening reports | ||||
| Source-grounded transparency | ||||
| Batch multi-tract analysis | ||||
| Model-version audit trail | ||||
| Structured grant-evidence packages |
Canopulse does not replace Tree Equity Score, i-Tree, or CalEnviroScreen. It moves you faster from public data to a traceable, exportable screening report. Capability comparison reflects each tool’s public product; see their sites for full feature sets.
Transparent by design, not a black box.
Source-grounded
Every value traces to a named source product and vintage.
Confidence-labeled
Scores show how strong the evidence is, never false precision.
Reproducible
The formula is publicly documented and the method is open to review.
Canopulse does not replace Tree Equity Score, i-Tree, CalEnviroScreen, or urban-forestry consultants. It helps you move faster from public data to a traceable, exportable screening report.
Who it is for
Cities and counties
Consultants
Nonprofits and community groups
Grant writers
Researchers
Urban-forestry teams
Five components, one index
Every score traces to official public data
Each block in the city is a tract. Pick a layer to morph the skyline, hover to read a block, click to send a pulse through the county.
Tract city · live
Tree canopy deficit
Validation and integrity
Trust is a product feature, not a footnote.
Canopulse separates completed internal checks from ongoing validation work so planners can understand both the strength and the limits of the screening output.
Integrity center
Audit status
Completed checks
- Published UCRI formula and fixed weights
- Current California release integrity checks
- Formula reproduction against the released California UCRI components
- Source registry with dataset vintage notes
- Confidence labels for scored and provisional records
- Batch validation that keeps invalid inputs visible
In progress
- Independent review
- Outcome comparison against independently maintained datasets
- CalEnviroScreen 5.0 source join and missing-record disclosure
- Longer multi-year heat and canopy robustness testing
UCRI is a screening index. It helps identify where closer review may be useful. Confirm current source data, field conditions, program requirements, and community context before making a project decision.
Why Canopulse exists
A map shows you where it is hot. It does not show you how the number was reached.
Most climate dashboards show one layer at a time. The harder part is turning canopy, heat, and equity data into a tract-level screening result a planner, grant writer, or council office can trace back to its sources and inspect line by line. Canopulse is built for that gap.
9,033
California tracts fully scored
6
published data layers
5
weighted model components