Assessing Geese Damage in the Netherlands

Over the last few decades, the Netherlands has become a winter paradise for geese, as modern agriculture created an abundance of winter food on the Dutch fields.

Causing much distress to the Dutch farmers, increasingly more geese are staying during spring in the Netherlands as well to breed. The Dutch government has started compensating farmers for damages of geese-grazing through the dedicated Fauna Fund based on on-the-spot checks. In 2015, around 4,000 compensation claims resulted in payments of about €17m.

Through the use of satellite imagery, ilionX helps the Province of Fryslân to automate appraisals and detect and assess geese damage remotely saving time and cost for appraisers

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