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v2.26.0 (2026-08-05)
Overview
Vite Horizon 2.26.0 lifts the Canopy Analyze area limit from 0.25 hectares to 250 hectares by adding a second analysis engine, and reports more while it is at it: a median height, a coverage figure, and a height-distribution breakdown.
Breaking Changes
None in this release. The original engine remains available and unchanged.
New Features and Improvements
Canopy Analyze: real coupe-sized areas
Analyse was limited to 0.25 hectares — a 50 m × 50 m box — so a real coupe could not be analysed at all; people measured postage stamps and extrapolated. An Analysis engine dropdown now offers:
| Engine | Maximum area | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS Image Service (default) | 250 ha | Max, min, average, standard deviation, median, pixel count, area, a Covered (ha) figure, and a Height distribution breakdown |
| GeoServer (WPS) | 0.25 ha | The original engine and figures, kept as a fallback |
Measured against the live service, a 1 ha area returns in well under a second and 400 ha in about two seconds. Changing engine clears the displayed result, because the two do not report the same figures.
See the Canopy Analyze guide.
Height distribution chart
The new engine also reports how the canopy in your area is split across height bands, drawn in the same colours the map uses and in height order. Hovering a band shows its exact figures, and the full per-band table can be expanded.
The bands are the same ones the canopy height model filter uses, so a breakdown and a filtered map agree on what "10–12 m" means.
Coverage figure
Where an area straddles the edge of the modelled forest, a Covered (ha) figure appears so you can see how much of your polygon the model actually covers. An area entirely outside it — over water or a town — reports No Canopy Data rather than an error.
Imagery symbology is remembered
A symbology applied with the Imagery Tool is restored more reliably from bookmarks, including falling back to the default scheme where a saved scheme cannot be matched. Image services can also now be added from the Layer Catalog like any other layer type.
Under the Hood
- Cancelling or resetting an analysis, or switching engine mid-run, now discards the in-flight result properly. It could previously return and overwrite a result you had just cleared.
- Printing a WMS layer no longer writes one sublayer's style across every sublayer.