As part of an ongoing process of reforms to modernise and simplify the EU’s CAP, since January 2023 the monitoring of subsidy payments has been carried out on the basis of a comprehensive and continuous monitoring concept, using highly innovative technologies and primarily integrating Copernicus Earth observation data.
GAF AG has developed a fully automated, cloud-based system for the technical assessment of subsidy declarations and the monitoring of eligibility requirements using state of the art methods and algorithms. This involves the use of both time series analyses and artificial intelligence (AI) methods.
This system has been fully operational for five other German federal states, covering a total area of 199,222 km², since the beginning of 2023. Precise, automated and continuous recording, processing and analysis of Earth observation data in accordance with the newest CAP requirements is ensured. The GAF system provides reliable information for up to 180 different crops and various agricultural activities. It also verifies compliance with certain eligibility conditions and specific compensatory mitigation measures.
It therefore constitutes GAF’s next step in providing innovative, hands-on and user-oriented analysis of remote sensing data.
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About GAF AG
GAF AG, an e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) company based in Munich and Neustrelitz, was founded in Munich in 1985 as the first German company with a focus on applied remote sensing. It is now one of the leading commercial geoinformation service providers in Europe. As part of the e-GEOS/Telespazio group of companies, GAF offers an extensive service portfolio that, in addition to the direct reception and distribution of satellite data, also includes highly developed analysis techniques, AI processes and the tailor-made development of geoinformation and software systems and platforms as well as consulting solutions. Its areas of thematic expertise for public and private clients worldwide include land monitoring, natural resource management, water and environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, mining, emergency management and infrastructure security. GAF is also one of the most experienced European service providers in the EU/ESA Copernicus programme, due to its many years of service implementation for the Copernicus land monitoring service, emergency management service and security and in-situ service components.
