Unlocking Space Derived Data for Agricultural Opportunities

Project Overview

The Unlocking Space‑Derived Data for Agricultural Opportunities across Scotland and East Anglia project, funded by the UK Space Agency’s Space Cluster Partnership Programme, brought together Space Scotland, Space East, South of Scotland Enterprise and AstroAgency to accelerate cross-sector collaboration between agriculture and satellite technology.

Through a series of three regional workshops, partners and participants explored strategies and applications of satellite technologies in the agriculture sector to address agricultural challenges while strengthening economies and fostering long-term innovation.

AstroAgency delivered the project’s full communications and engagement effort, including  social media promotion, workshop support, stakeholder coordination, and completed two case studies.

Problem

Agricultural stakeholders in Scotland and East Anglia needed better access to satellite data and space‑enabled tools, but the two sectors were not actively or effectively connected. The agriculture sector leaked awareness and practical guidance on how space-derived data could be leveraged to help solve real-world challenges, not to replace current and traditional agricultural methods but to complement and enhance them.

Solution

A structured, cross‑sector collaboration between the space and agriculture sectors in Scotland and East Anglia, using workshops and shared knowledge exchange to explore how satellite‑derived data can enhance traditional farming methods and facilitate networking and lead to innovative projects and solutions between the two sectors. This has led to further interest by farmers to search for opportunities for collaboration and the development of new projects.