This year's GeoBuzz 2025 felt like a meeting between urgency and optimism. For two days, we spoke to governments and organisations that all expressed the same desire: clear, up-to-date insights that make policy-making easier, faster and more reliable.
That is exactly what NEO was all about this year: showing how geo-information, AI and monitoring come together in solutions that really help governments move forward.
Monday: strategic clarity & the story of the landscape
AI monitoring as a strategic compass
Erik opened our series of sessions with a story that capitalised on the upstream: How do you organise policy in a way that is continuously fed by up-to-date information?
On how municipalities find direction with consistent monitoring, reliable object data and insight into change.
Consider solutions such as our Buildings register, Automatic change reporting (BAG/BGT), Tree base, Pavement Monitor, Solar panel map and other basic datasets that help municipalities steer more sharply every day.
Erik's story touched on something that many visitors recognised: policy that rests on good data is policy that can move forward.
Green & agriculture: the finger on the pulse of the landscape
Immediately afterwards, Lola took the audience into the world of satellites, aerial photos and deep learning. How continuous monitoring of greenery, vegetation and crops supports policy and management without having to go into the field every time.
From our Agricultural monitoring (AMS) to tracking agricultural plots and large-scale green analyses. It became visible how understanding at scale gives peace of mind and direction.
Watching the recording back?
For everyone who missed the session due to the last-minute changed programme, watch the online recording here.
Tuesday: landscape, area development and climate-resilient cities
LASREG and area development that is right
Nadine and Inger showed how actual landscape element data via LASREG helping governments understand landscapes before plans are made.
Wooded banks, ditches, canals, structures: information that makes area development stronger, because it does justice to what is there.
Their message was clear: you make better choices when you understand the underlayer. We help make that underlay visible.
Climate adaptation based on remote sensing
Finally, Loek and Fang took the audience into the city. Or rather: the city from above. Remote sensing and analysis make heat stress, flooding or paving visible at street, district and city level.
From insights that help municipalities go green, to underpinning solutions within the Green-blue veining (GBDA). Their story made it clear that climate adaptation is not only urgent, but also doable when you work with up-to-date, objective data.
Data only really helps when it is understandable, up-to-date and applicable.
That is exactly what NEO's solutions stand for.
