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.
Updating map objects is labour-intensive and precise work. So is detecting and interpreting the changes, but very different in nature. It is then smart to perform change detection and interpretation in a separate action. We call that action change detection: Where does a map object change (was/is) and what should the follow-up action be?
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
Fibre optic rollout is moving unabatedly fast. Fibre-optic infrastructure is important for equal opportunities in the digital society. According to NLconnect, a record number of more than 1 million new fibre optic connections will be realised by 2022. Millions more connections will also be realised in 2023 and beyond.
In Solar Panels on the Map, NEO again monitored the whole of the Netherlands for solar panels via satellite photos last year. We see an increase of 40% compared to 2021.
Updating map objects is labour-intensive and precise work. So is finding and interpreting the changes, but quite different in nature. It is then smart to carry out change detection and interpretation in a separate action.We call that action change detection: Where does a map object change (was/is becoming) and what should the follow-up action be?
However, the risk with conventional solar potential analyses is that they only look at the roof itself, but not at what is already on the roof. Sometimes we see in aerial and satellite photos that roofs are already so full of cooling towers, dormers, skylights, chimneys and facade maintenance installations that there is hardly any room left for solar panels.
Housing associations have an important role to play in the energy transition. Increasing sustainability is necessary and politicians are also calling on housing associations. Of course, this comes at a price. One way to reduce the cost is to use it effectively. Getting a good data system in order is an important first step; in order to determine what measures to take, it is first important to know what the current state of affairs is. With that, targeted action can be taken.
Construction and maintenance of underground cables and pipelines is always accompanied by risks.
Many objects are already underground and you cannot see them either. There is also a big increase in new infrastructure being built, for example fibre optics and heat networks. Besides the fact that damage to cables and pipelines can occur when digging (for which the CROW 500 guideline 'Preventing damage to cables and pipelines' was recently drawn up), damage to the surroundings can also occur, such as trees.
