Case Study: European Union achieves fast, stable, and storage-efficient Land Parcel Identification System for farmers with Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division

Land Parcel Identification System Serves Farmers Efficiently

The European Union needed a fast, reliable Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) to register farmers for annual subsidy claims within a constrained six-week declaration window — creating intense last‑minute peaks from some 60,000–70,000 users and putting heavy strain on imagery delivery and the existing federated geospatial architecture. To solve this, the Ministry engaged IMAGEM to deploy technology from Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division (ERDAS APOLLO) that would integrate with the country’s Esri‑based front and back ends.

IMAGEM implemented an ERDAS APOLLO imagery service from Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division that plugged into the Esri stack with no recoding and was operational onsite in 1.5 hours. By converting ~87,000 source images (≈13 TB) into a few ECW mosaics (~700 GB, 10 cm GSD) and streaming them via native Esri geoservices, the solution rendered imagery faster than vectors, sustained peak loads (over 8 million page views and ~100 GB/hour) with CPUs under 25% utilization, and significantly reduced storage and data‑management overhead.

European Union

Mariya Gabriel

Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society