Case Study: Rural Payments Agency achieves faster agricultural monitoring and compliance with Planet Insights Platform

How Planet Insights Platform Transformed Rpa's Data Landscape

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) faced significant challenges in monitoring agricultural practices across England, grappling with the immense storage and computational demands of managing satellite data for 8.9 million hectares of land. Their fragmented workflows and network limitations created a slow, inefficient process for data download and preprocessing, which hindered their ability to perform comprehensive compliance checks. To overcome this, the RPA turned to the Planet Insights Platform from Planet.

By implementing Planet's API-first platform, the RPA consolidated its workflows and gained streamlined access to analysis-ready data. This solution, supported by Planet's Professional Services, reduced the time required to download and preprocess key data by 95%, from nine months to just two weeks. The agency dramatically increased its monitoring coverage from 2% to 100% of the agricultural area and empowered 15 users of varying skill levels to access and analyze data, enabling more accurate and efficient national-scale compliance verification.

Rural Payments Agency

Valentin Louis

Senior Earth Observation Specialist