Land cover and land use for environmental baseline and/or impact assessment

Challenge ID:

HCP-4102

Originator:

Onshore: Hatfield

Title:

Land cover and land use for environmental baseline and/or impact assessment.

Theme:

ON 4.1: Environmental monitoring - Baseline historic mapping of environment and ecosystems

Consortium Lead:

Hatfield

Interviewed Company:

Hatfield

Geography:

ON.REG.00 - Generic onshore

Challenge Description

What is not possible / not adequately addressed at present?

Mapping land cover and land class classification is needed, but methods can be highly variable between different contractors. Obtaining up to date and standardized land cover information is a challenge.

What effect does this challenge have on operations?

Baseline land cover and land use information is required to understand project environment and to support environmental risk assessment.

Thematic information requirements:

Land cover

Land use

What do you currently do to address this challenge? 

How is this challenge conventionally addressed?

Combination of available satellite imagery in combination with aerial imagery.

What kind of solutions do you envisage could address this challenge?

Baseline information based on optical image acquisition and an ability to integrate radar data to mitigate cloud cover issues in optical data.

What is your view on the capability of technology to meet this need?

Are you currently using EO tech? If not, why not?

Issues regarding consistency and accuracy of land cover classification and change detection, cost of data, and cloud cover constraints in certain parts of the world.

Challenge Classification

Impact on Lifecycle (0=none, 4=high):

Climate / Topography / Urgency:

Pre-license:

0

Climate class:

Generic climate

Exploration:

2

Topographic class:

Not specific

Development:

4

Seasonal variations:

Any season

Production:

4

Impact area:

Environmental

Decommissioning:

2

Technology urgency:

3 - Immediately (0-2 years)

Challenge Information Requirements

Update frequency:

Snapshot

Data currently used:

In-situ monitoring and surveys

Spatial resolution:

Regional, Basin

Thematic accuracy:

Not specific

Required formats:

Not Specific

Timeliness (Vintage):

Within six months

Geographic extents:

Regional

Existing standards:

None