April product updates

Discover what's new in the platform

This month, we are focusing on precision and realism—both in how you manage your data and how you visualise your projects. From a complete overhaul of our curtailment workflow to making our 3D scenes more true-to-life, these updates are designed to make your planning process more robust and professional.

Visual Analysis: Realistic tree modelling and canopy logic

Trees are a critical feature of any landscape, impacting both the visual aesthetic and how shadows are interpreted. 

Instead of trying to place thousands of individual trees manually, we use a raster dataset that describes tree canopy height.

• Accurate heights: For every pixel with a canopy height above 5m, we place a tree of the corresponding height.
• Natural placement: To avoid a "grid-like" appearance from the underlying data, we apply a random offset of 0–5m in any direction.

This ensures that your View Park and Shadow analyses visualise general forested areas with high precision, giving you a realistic representation of the landscape.

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Photomontage: panorama, maps, and metadata

We have introduced several highly requested features to help you create presentation-ready visualisations:

• Panorama support: Panorama images behave very differently from standard photos, which previously made alignment difficult. You can now toggle on Panorama mode to ensure perfect alignment across the entire wide-angle view, essential for high-quality prints.
• Professional layouts: By popular demand, you can now add a small inset map in the corner and include custom metadata at the bottom of your montages.
• Restore settings: You can now restore old settings for an image you have already worked on, making it easy to maintain exact consistency across different park scenarios.

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Curtailment revamp: The unified table

We’ve centralised curtailment management into a new, dedicated Curtailments table. By bringing standard loss rules and complex noise matrices into a single interface, it is now much easier to maintain a "source of truth" for your operational planning.

Key benefits:

• Unified overview: Manage all rules, from simple power limits to noise-based curtailment, now in one place.
• Reduced complexity: Get a clear, park-wide summary of how different strategies interact.
• Better alignment: Easily find the optimal balance between maximum production and regulatory compliance.

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Wind data: Flexible wind data upload

We have released a more flexible way to upload wind measurement data, moving beyond a few fixed formats to a "best effort" parsing approach. The platform now intelligently interprets the content of your files, making it much easier to integrate site-specific measurements.

• Auto-parsing: For recognised providers, Vind AI will automatically parse the data for you.
• Manual configuration: For other file types, we have made it simple to configure the data yourself by mapping columns for location, timestamps, and sensor heights directly in the platform.

Broader support: This update includes improved support for .sta (Lidar) and .csv files, ensuring your data is ready for analysis with fewer manual workarounds.

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