Objectives of the Product

HubCAP is an ‘Application Platform’ for the agriculture and environmental sectors. It is based on Copernicus data and the EO toolkit built by Compass Informatics Limited, making it a highly flexible system. It can be accessed directly through the platform or through a comprehensive API for monitoring via direct integration with existing administration systems.

HubCAP was envisaged as an application that would: 

• Provide accessible information for land use and land cover management in an accessible and repeatable manner.
• Build upon ESA generated satellite imagery and applications to lower the cost of analysis and application ownership.
• Provide reliable and transparent workflows for decision making.
• Deliver an intuitive application that serves the business expert, rather than relying on the technical specialist.
• Enable non-technical users to initiate and view land use and land use change in a wide variety of scenarios using satellite imagery.
• Aid the process of validating financial claims, review land use and land use change more efficiently.

HubCAP demonstrates the ability to combine Compass Informatics’ expertise in EO, Location Technologies and GIS to deliver a user focused, application with the potential to deliver.

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Customers and their Needs

HubCAP is a robust and simple platform targeting users from Government Agencies, (CAP, non-CAP Paying Agencies and Environmental Agencies) and commercial clients.  Users can access the benefits of Sentinel data in a fully supported, legally recorded and compliant manner. These user types are in constant need of custom land monitoring as Europe has a wide range of types of lands and therefore different monitoring needs.

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Targeted customer/users countries

All European countries

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Product description

The HubCAP service consist of two modules, each with a differing start point:

1. EO Module Based upon results of other activities (Copernicus data Space Ecosystem, Agricultural monitoring needs) with an innovative EO algorithm for Grazing and Bare Soil Detection. The EO Module orchestrates the download, and processing of Sentinel-1 and 2 imageries, and the execution of markers against that data for specific land parcels.  Processing is optimised for data reuse and stability.

2. Bureau Module Based on a validated user concept and actions derived from the EO module outputs. This includes a viewer to visualise the land use and land use change with interaction of several data widgets to allow visualisation of results.  The Bureau module also allows users to configure processing runs in an intuitive manner, gives users transparency on progress of processing, and configuration of results display.

Overall, HubCAP is a scalable application for commercial engagement with public and private sector clients.

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Added Value

The HubCAP service is:

Simple – has an intuitive UI that allows non-expert users to initiate and schedule their assessments, supported by a comprehensive API for monitoring via direct integration with existing administration systems.

Wide – has an advanced dashboard for conducting bespoke ad-hoc local analyses with below advanced features:

• Upload and draw polygon functionality for individual and batch processing
• Map-centric view showing national RAG status
• Syncing of map and data lists, for easy interpretation
• Visualisation of parcel-level signal timeseries and imagettes views in sync
• User scenario analysis (stored outputs as “Layer”)
• Configurable business logic to reflect national/EU schemes
• Administrative access for user management, permissions and configuration
• API Data services for integration into downstream systems
• Audit history and metadata for process transparency and end user communication
• High-performance and scalable processing, with reliable cost models

Supported – Is fully supported and customer focused.

Transaction Certified – each classification ‘transaction’ is fully recorded and certified

Built for a mature ICT organisation

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Current Status

The project has been successfully completed.