Parcel Monitoring Platform Flanders, an AI-based geo-imaging tool for data-driven policy formulation and evaluation

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The Parcel Monitoring Platform Flanders is an innovative system designed by Digitaal Vlaanderen (Flanders Digital agency) and VITO (Vlaamse Instelling Technologisch Onderzoek) to leverage AI and geo-imaging technologies for enhanced policy formulation and evaluation in Flanders, Belgium. This platform is specifically aimed at providing precise, real-time monitoring of land parcels to support data-driven decision-making in policy domains, such as energy, agriculture, urban planning, or environmental management.

The raw Sentinel images, speckled with noise and data gaps, are first pre-processed in Terrascope. To support the user-segments Terrascope offers a time series web service ‘CropSAR’ that allows you to access the time-series of S1 and S2 derived parameters for a given area (e.g. a parcel or a set of parcels). No need to download series of images, this tool does all the image processing for you, so that you can focus on your specific use case.

Currently, we already see a new data fusion strategy emerging: airborne campaigns for a yearly detailed visual overview (spatial resolution), and the Sentinel missions for continuous monitoring of the dynamics in a region of interest (temporal resolution) in combination with existing (GIS)data. The service combined with high resolution images and (field) data provides timely parcel change-detection notifications needed by the governmental agencies to support their task in monitoring the European Green Deal objectives.

Budget: Not disclosed