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RESULT By transforming months of manual classification work into an automated exercise in keystrokes, RLP AgroScience is enabling the local authorities to build their landscape feature layers of the EU-required LPIS, verify farmers' claims and submit accurate applications for agriculture subsidies on time. And with ALEK's repeatable platform, it has the ability to continually and reliably classify the changing landscape of Rhineland-Palatinate. With the batch and parallel processing features of eCognition Server technology, the ALEK system can handle significant volumes of data as well as automatically repeat the classification workflows each time a new dataset is introduced. In addition, should the EU issue new IACS data specifications, RLP AgroScience can adjust the system to meet those requirements with one simple change in the eCognition workflow. Without the aid of eCognition, RLP AgroScience would have had to more than triple the size of its team to produce the same amount of output–– at potentially lesser quality. The increased productivity and improved efficiency and quality enables the organization to continue to innovate and expand ALEK applications. Anchored by eCognition's automation and its building-block nature of repeatable workflows, ALEK is helping to ensure RLP AgroScience can continue to efficiently and reliably deliver a crop of classifications for Rhineland-Palatinate, and possibly for other EU regions as well. " With eCognition's object-based image analysis, we created standardized, reproducible results in a fraction of the time. Its speed, accuracy and data flexibility allowed our small team of image analysts to develop a fully automated, repeatable large-scale vegetation mapping system at no additional data cost to the ministry." Dr. Matthias Trapp, Head of Environmental Systems, RLP AgroScience NORTH AMERICA Trimble Inc. 10368 Westmoor Drive Westminster CO 80021 USA EUROPE Trimble Germany GmbH Am Prime Parc 11 65479 Raunheim GERMANY +49-6142-2100-0 Phone +49-6142-2100-140 Fax ASIA-PACIFIC Trimble Navigation Singapore Pty Limited 80 Marine Parade Road #22-06, Parkway Parade Singapore 449269 SINGAPORE +65-6348-2212 Phone +65-6348-2232 Fax Contact your Distribution Partner today © 2015–2017, Trimble Inc. All rights reserved. Trimble, the Globe & Triangle logo, and eCognition are trademarks of Trimble Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. PN 022516-148A (10/17) TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS