The Geospatial (Land) Enabling Programme is evaluating the advantages of establishing a unified geospatial capability that will support business needs enabling enhanced decision-making by providing comprehensive insights into the environment. Geospatial intelligence can support the understanding of the changing landscape over time and the outcome of certain responses. This is the 'What and Where' view for the past, current and future. There is currently no single source, authoritative view (map) of land across England that can be accessed and shared across the Defra group that meets the needs of the businesses. This not only impacts business and policy outcomes due to the quality and absence of data being used but also the effective monitoring of regulation due to being unable to easily identify who occupies a piece of land and the activity being undertaken.

Defra is running a Geospatial Land Model Discovery – some info disclosed in a recent contract award notice www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/47c72...

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