The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK Government department responsible for safeguarding the country’s natural environment. Defra faces demands on its resources alongside uncertainty of a vastly changed operational landscape post-Brexit.
Defra required “Analysis Ready Data” (ARD) from simple visualizations to complex machine learning algorithms and identified they would benefit from building a facility to automatically generate ARD. With over 30 years’ experience developing software and networks for space, industry and government, CGI was engaged to offer Defra an intelligent, cost-effective solution to harness the crucial Sentinel data and process, produce and disseminate ARD.
CGI identified the need to use open architecture and cloud-based systems and recommended a public cloud provider (MS Azure) and integrated an existing UK-based solution. This led to the successful development and deployment of the alpha product within 3 months.
