NEO monitors rural areas at home and abroad. We provide agribusinesses, conservationists, subsidy providers, etc. with up-to-date information and forecasts on crops, environmental quality, landscape elements, etc.
Agriculture
Knowledge base
Managing European agricultural subsidies poses significant challenges for national paying agencies and administrations. Traditional methods, such as spot checks on site, are labour-intensive, costly and prone to
The agriculture sector is on the brink of a technological revolution, where satellite data and advanced AI systems are key to more sustainable and efficient land management. Discover how NEO, as a pioneer in agricultural monitoring, together with its partners, is shaping the future with pioneering innovations within the Area Monitoring System (AMS).
Crop Classification is one of the activities involved in most of AMS analysis. However, the results are sometimes not significant enough to confirm a farmer declaration. This case is especially prevalent in parcels/ FOIs declared as trees, orchards or other woody vegetation, as they often display undergrowth (bushes, grass, herbs...) that accounts for more surface than the tree crowns themselves.
The unique Dutch landscape is under pressure. This has negative consequences for cultural value, biodiversity and CO2 storage. Ongoing initiatives to strengthen the landscape lack good information on the status of the landscape in the Netherlands .
NEO, in collaboration with the Cooperative Tree Register, therefore launched the landscape elements register.co.uk in early 2023.
Dutch ditches have been the talk of the day in recent weeks. Because buffer strip width affects the manure placement space on a plot and depends on the ditch type (dry ditch with 1 metre buffer versus 3 metres for an aquifer ditch), map information must be reliable. NEO uses current earth observation data to improve map information of ditches.
Hundreds of thousands of households are expected to be connected again in 2023. A well-known parameter in the world of fibre is homes passed, households that (can) be connected. This again means a lot of digging, often near trees. Our practice shows that when fibre is installed, some 30% to sometimes even 50% of trees in an area come into view
