Ordnance Survey has launched OS Enhanced Land Cover (ELC) Beta, a national habitat-mapping dataset that fuses OS National Geographic Database topography, OS aerial imagery, OS Terrain 5 and third-party sources including Natural England’s Living England, the Rural Payments Agency’s Crop Map of England and UKHab classifications to support 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessments. The tool enables desktop and field workflows for ecologists and developers, with Wessex Water using it via Linckia’s ESRI-based Habitat Fabric platform to assess hundreds of sites in a single spatial view. Linckia reports a 40% cut in data processing costs versus previous methods, rising to 90% compared with processing raw imagery, with OS claiming time savings of days to weeks per development across 1.5 million homes in the pipeline.

Emerson has released DeltaV Live Enterprise View, a browser-based application that extends DeltaV™ distributed control system visualisation securely from the control room to any authorised device on the industrial edge. The software provides real-time operations intelligence to engineering, maintenance, reliability and management teams, integrating with Emerson’s wider edge ecosystem for process control and asset monitoring. For mines running dispersed processing plants and remote infrastructure, this enables site-wide situational awareness without duplicating SCADA screens or exposing core control networks.

Ottawa’s March 2026 commitment of up to $40 million for the Canadian Digital Core Library is framed as strategic infrastructure, treating archived drill core and geoscience data as a foundation for critical mineral sovereignty across cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and rare earths. Masoud Aali, founder and CEO of Scient Analytics, argues that simply scanning core is inadequate if preprocessing, interpretation, hosting and workflow integration are outsourced to foreign platforms, which “digitise the rock and export the advantage”. He points to Australia’s two‑decade National Virtual Core Library as a model for a large, open, continuous system that embeds domestic analytical capability.