HubCAP is a project run in partnership with the ESA InCubed programme, with the aim to build a platform and service that facilitates the use of satellite imagery for automated assessment of land use and land use change across multiple domains.
Specifically, the intention is to address the needs of three distinct sectors with overlapping requirements:
- Large Paying Agencies – National and regional agencies administering CAP subsidy payments that require validation of the area claims submitted by farmers.
- Smaller Public Agencies – Involved in land monitoring or administration of Green Deal or other legislative objectives such as European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, that require claim validation or on-the-ground monitoring.
- Private sector – Entities from public and private sector that require assessment and validation of land management assets – including financial services, transport, environmental and agriculture.
Historically, monitoring and assessment in these domains has been delivered through on the ground validation or manual inspection of satellite imagery.
This is time-consuming and costly and replacing these manual processes with periodic or continuous ‘monitoring’ using Sentinel imagery could reduce the use of on-the-ground visits.
