Celebrating visionaries in geospatial innovation

The five categories in this year's Geospatial Innovation Awards, held at 1 Moorgate Place, London, were inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Two new categories this year - Scottish Geospatial Technology, sponsored by Geovation Scotland, and Contribution to Diversity - recognise the importance of a more inclusive geospatial world.

The judges for the awards were drawn from a global cohort of experts, industry leaders and government departments, from organisations such as the World Health Organisation, the Geospatial Commission, 10 Downing Street and HM Land Registry.

List of winners and highly commended 

Cities of the Future - recognising solutions that shape the urban landscapes of tomorrow.

• Winner: Advanced Infrastructure (LAEP+) - building geospatial tools for utilities and cities to deliver the energy transition.
• Highly Commended: MapMortar - the modern platform for achieving accurate, financially de-risked, and simplified net zero retrofits.

Nature and Environment - honouring innovations that protect our planet and biodiversity

• Winner: University of Surrey Space4Nature - a groundbreaking three-year project that combines satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, and citizen science to map, connect, and restore wildlife habitats across Surrey, fostering open research in biodiversity conservation.
• Highly Commended: Maya Climate - Maya Climate is an AI-powered geospatial analysis platform that automates the process of site screening, prospecting, and risk assessment for teams developing, financing, or advising on Nature-based Solutions, thereby accelerating decision-making and project qualification.

Protection of Life - celebrating technologies that safeguard lives

• Winner: ProxyAddress - a UK-based social enterprise that uses redundant address data from empty homes to connect those facing homelessness with the services they need, thereby providing a stable data-based identity to help them regain independence.
• Highly Commended: OneSoil Pro (advanced PRO functionality of the OneSoil platform) - an advanced precision farming platform that leverages up to seven years of satellite imagery to analyse individual fields, taking into account NDVI, soil brightness, and elevation maps. It enables users to determine productivity zones, create prescription maps, conduct field trials, and analyse their results, thereby maximizing the return on investment on expensive inputs.
• Highly Commended: Safepoint - creating life-saving innovations for thousands of consumers, small businesses and beloved institutions.

Contribution to Diversity - applauding initiatives that foster inclusion in the geospatial industry.

• Winner: Women+ in Geospatial - a global network of over 5500 women and nonbinary people in the geospatial field that promotes diversity and inspires, unites and empowers its members to grow personally and professionally through networking, career development, events and mentorship.
• Highly Commended: Australian Spatial Analytics - is a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides professional geospatial and digital engineering data services, while creating career opportunities for young neurodivergent adults, thereby fostering diversity in the digital ecosystem.

Scottish Geospatial Technology - showcasing the best of Scottish geospatial innovation (sponsored by Geovation Scotland)

• Winner: EmergencyLocate - supporting emergency, search and rescue organisations to rapidly and accurately locate people in need of assistance.
• Highly Commended: Rethink Carbon - an automated land management platform that revolutionizes land use by integrating data science and AI, providing land managers with the tools to assess, map, report on natural capital, and unlock new revenue streams through sustainable practices.