The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of the UK government sponsored by Defra. It uses satellite imagery and geospatial data to administer and monitor agricultural land, ensuring accurate subsidy payments to farmers and landowners. RPA is currently seeking geospatial analytics and remote monitoring services to improve the efficiency of its compliance monitoring for the Farming and Countryside Programme. The RPA works with partners like Earth-i and Planet to utilize satellite data for environmental monitoring and agricultural management.
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Earth-i has been awarded a multi-year contract to deliver environmental monitoring through Planet Labs’ fleet of earth imaging satellites to the Rural Payments Agency.
PlanetScope data for the Rural Payments Agency will be delivered as a 100% cloud-free composite across the entire agricultural area of England.
The Rural Payments Agency’s Land Management System contains 2.6 million land parcel records and 3.5 million land cover records.
The multiyear contract provides a recurring managed service enabling Defra and the Rural Payments Agency to deliver the Basic Payment and Countryside Stewardship Schemes.
1Spatial worked with the Rural Payments Agency over the past five years to support and develop the Land Management System.
1Spatial signed a multiyear contract with the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to provide a managed service for the Rural Payments Agency’s Rural Payments Service and Land Management System.
1Spatial and Version 1 previously held a contract providing a managed service for ongoing support and maintenance for the Rural Payments Agency’s system.
1Spatial signed a multiyear contract with the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to provide a managed service for the Rural Payments Agency’s Customer Portal and Land Management System (LMS).
The Rural Payments Agency will use 1Spatial’s geospatial software and expertise to master land registration data used for subsidy scheme validation and agricultural policy implementation.