Market Trends of UK Geospatial Analytics Industry
Location data will hold the significant share
- The Geospatial Commission was established to capitalize on the vast opportunities that location data and technology provide for the United Kingdom. Two successful pilots to test a National Subterranean Asset Register (NUAR) - a digitized map of all underground pipes and wires - were completed in the North East of England and London.
- This Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) will help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public services while encouraging innovation and economic growth. On March 2023, British regulator Ofcom announced they would auction 6 GHz in the 26 GHz and 40 GHz bands to improve mobile connectivity in the UK.
- The new spectrum will be particularly beneficial in locations and venues with many mobile users, such as train stations, football stadiums, and concerts, where demands on current networks mean mobile data speeds can be sluggish. Ofcom will award citywide licenses to use the mmWave spectrum by auction and assign rights for more localized permits.
- The Geospatial Commission was established to capitalize on the vast opportunities that location data and technology provide for the United Kingdom. Two successful pilots to test a National Subterranean Asset Register (NUAR) - a digitized map of all underground pipes and wires - were completed in the North East of England and London. A national strategy would lessen the likelihood of asset strikes, which threaten lives, cause delays, cost money, and disrupt traffic and local economies-negotiated a GBP 1 billion commitment over ten years to keep Britain's essential national location data at the forefront of the world. This Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) will likely help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public services while encouraging innovation and economic growth.
- The critical location identifiers - Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) and Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) - that provide a golden thread to link a wide range of datasets together to deliver insights have been released on open terms for the first time. Ten projects were funded through a crowdsourcing competition to foster new applications of location data that provide economic, social, and environmental value.
- An effort to design an indoor mapping system to navigate complicated structures, a safer and more efficient navigation system for bikers, and a project to map every tree in the UK to improve urban and rural forestry decisions are just a few examples. GBP 5 million was invested in a data enhancement effort with six partner organizations to improve public sector geospatial datasets.
- Geospatial data analysis can also help telecommunication businesses manage their assets more effectively. For example, a corporation can use geographic data to determine a site's power outage susceptibility in the case of a storm, allowing it to manage its network assets better. Furthermore, the corporation can comprehend the deployment of its service assets (such as repair workers) to know how to position them if maintenance is required.
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Mining and Natural Resources is Expected to Hold Significant Share of the Market
- Utility and communication are two well-known end-user industries that have embraced geospatial analytics. The section is dominated by energy, electricity, and communication systems. Energy consumption profiles of high-resolution buildings are determined using an analytical procedure that integrates annual energy simulations of various city-specific prototype assets with geographical data from the Geographical Information System (GIS) framework.
- Further, in April 2023, EDF, a French electric utility corporation, collaborated with ESRI UK to create an enterprise GIS for Hinkley Point C (HPC), one of Europe's most extensive and complicated construction projects. The GIS portal has improved cooperation and expedited digital workflows by offering a centralized source of all geographical data, maps, apps, and dashboards for over 1,500 users, including employees and contractors.
- The UK P&I Club's loss prevention team has revealed that it has been collaborating with Geollect, a UK and US-based Geospatial-Intelligence Company, to give its members cutting-edge data feeds with geospatial analysis, delivering crucial information on ports and locations throughout the world. Geollect develops proprietary, dynamic algorithms embedded in user-friendly software to provide a new type of timely and actionable intelligence. The information is compiled from satellite imagery, social media updates, intelligence data, geographical data, and the Club's records to provide a comprehensive picture of global marine incidents and alarms. For UK P&I members, an interactive map (below) has been produced that allows users to zoom into ports and locations and provides map and satellite views.
- Further, Eramet has collaborated closely with Capgemini to use artificial intelligence to transform the mining operations of its subsidiary "Grande Côte Opérations" (GCO), which specializes in mineralized sands, to facilitate revegetation and land rehabilitation. GCO, Eramet's local subsidiary, manufactures mineralized sands. The company has a mobile mine consisting of a dredge and a nomadic mill operating in an artificial basin within a 400 km2 mining concession to recover minerals in minute quantities in the desert sands.
- Following February 2023, a competitive procurement process, the UK government's Geospatial Commission awarded Airbus a one-year pilot contract to give public sector customers access to commercial, high-resolution satellite Earth observation (EO) data. Airbus will supply EO data to over 100 users spanning up to 35 public sector companies within the UK government, including complete mosaic coverage of the entire UK with high-quality pixels and shallow cloud cover.
