# RDE711 ARC-EO \(Agricultural Regulations and Compliance using Earth Observation

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Environment Agency](/buyers/environment-agency/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Ricardo-AEA Ltd](/contract-winners/ricardo-aea/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £49,965
- Tender value: £49,965
- Award date: 13 November 2024
- Published: 20 November 2024
- Contract start: 15 November 2024
- Contract end: 1 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: e3118c73-1ec6-4c20-821e-02adbf323620-804259
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-9b41ace8-0a50-4b37-8b76-931ca40ab37c

## Description

Outdoor Pig Farm Detection Project is an innovative initiative designed to enhance agricultural compliance using advanced Earth Observation \(EO\) technologies\. By harnessing high-resolution LiDAR and Sentinel-2 satellite data, the project aims to identify outdoor pig farms using deep learning AI models and evaluate the environmental risks linked to their operations\. Building on preliminary work that produced Outdoor pig farm detection layers for select counties in England, this contract seeks to expand these efforts nationwide based on similar methodology and dataset\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e3118c73-1ec6-4c20-821e-02adbf323620-804259)