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To develop and embed machine learning capabilities within a range of existing and new insight systems and processes.

The world faces major challenges associated with climate change, city management, the environment, natural resources and population growth. The pace of change means existing monitoring and reacting are no longer appropriate. MAppEO addresses these issues with a platform delivering high-value business analytics powered by Earth Observation data via lightweight digital applications (Apps). MAppEO harnesses enabling technologies in satellite imagery, cloud computing and big data, allowing Apps to meet these challenges. The Apps will be developed by a highly qualified and experienced technical team (Satellite Applications Catapult, Geospatial Insight, Sterling Geo and Specto Natura). MAppEO has already attracted global client partners across finance (World Bank, Permian Global), agriculture (AB Sustain), natural resources (Tullow Oil), Smart Cities (Living PlanIT) and asset management (British Geological Survey) who provide clear insight and true user requirements via an initial set of challenges. These pump prime the expansion of App development and user uptake. Making these Apps, offers the consortium a foundation for export and potential for sustainable growth within the knowledge economy.

This project will explore a range of datasets to create new insight and value. The collaborative research and development team will produce a new high value product for the food manufacturing and financial services industry. This new product is needed by these industries to enable lower risk decision making and to help secure lower futures prices when trading soft commodities. The project will explore datasets from wheat futures, the high volume of wheat market news reports and real-world satellite data. From this the product will be developed, enabling users to trade with greater market transparency, enabling surety of raw material cost for food manufacture and higher returns for traders. The product is needed now to help address food security and to help commodity traders meet new legislation. It is further driven by the growth in higher risk, ‘opaque’ alternative asset classes, such as investments in agricultural projects in frontier and emerging markets. It is enabled by the increase and forecast growth in suitable satellite data.

Development of an operational service to provide advanced crop yield forecasts to the commodities sector