Geospatial Data Architecture — Government & Energy

Geospatial data architecture
for government and energy
infrastructure.

ActiveSense designs the data models, metadata standards, and GIS platforms that government departments and energy operators actually ship — including Defra's national land data model for England, which unified 300–500M features from six Arm's Length Bodies into one authoritative model and cut serving cost by roughly an order of magnitude with open standards, and the Acorn CCS North Sea GIS Platform, the UK's first IOGP SSDM v2 compliant CCS delivery.

PMP Certified  ·  IOGP SSDM v2  ·  UK GEMINI 2.3

Defra national land data model — many fragmented land schemas unified into one authoritative model for England

Track record — 8+ years, 8 countries, government through semiconductor

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delivery failures on record

Why ActiveSense

What Makes Us Different

Standards Architecture

Standards-native, not standards-compliant

UK GEMINI 2.3 / IOGP SSDM v2 / ISO 19115 — built in from day one, not retrofitted. Our data architectures outlast the project.

Data Discovery

Data discovery: weeks → minutes

Defra GeoEP, 2025. We don't just deliver data — we make it findable. Every architecture we build is designed for discoverability.

Open-Standards Economics

Order-of-magnitude lower cost than proprietary

On Defra's national land platform we replaced a proprietary enterprise serving platform with an open-standards architecture — cutting storage and serving cost by roughly an order of magnitude, with no loss of resolution and no vendor lock-in.

Delivery Record

8 countries. Zero delivery failures.

North Sea to Kazakhstan. Netherlands to Turkey. Government and energy, offshore and on. A track record that speaks for itself.

Leadership

Esri Advanced + PMP certified leadership

Technical depth meets project discipline. Every engagement is architect-led, not delegated. You deal with the expert, not a project manager.

Case Studies

Selected Work

Defra National Land Data Platform — GeoEP
Flagship ProgrammeACTIVE 2025

government

Defra National Land Data Platform — GeoEP

Architected the conceptual, logical and physical data model underpinning Defra's national land data platform for England — unifying 6 Arm's Length Bodies and 300–500 million feature rows into one authoritative model, governed by a 49-element UK GEMINI 2.3 metadata standard that cut land-data discovery from weeks to minutes. On the physical side, designed an open-standards serving architecture that cut storage and serving cost by roughly an order of magnitude versus the proprietary platform it replaced — with no loss of resolution or interoperability.

~10×
lower serving & storage cost (open standards)
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Acorn CCS — North Sea Carbon Capture GIS Platform

carbon capture

Acorn CCS — North Sea Carbon Capture GIS Platform

Designed and delivered the enterprise GIS platform for one of the UK's pioneer North Sea carbon capture and storage projects — 3,500+ hours consolidating geo-data across 6 work areas into a cloud system with 2 custom web applications.

3,500+
hours on North Sea CCS GIS delivery
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TCO 3GI Pipeline Reroute — GIS Quality Control, Kazakhstan

pipeline

TCO 3GI Pipeline Reroute — GIS Quality Control, Kazakhstan

Provided rigorous GIS analysis and quality control for Tengizchevroil's 3GI pipeline reroute in Kazakhstan — cross-validating GIS data against engineering spreadsheets, verifying ground profiles with 60m-depth geotechnical data, and delivering construction-ready alignment sheets for three drill points.

3
drill points QC'd to construction standard
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Sectors

Who We Serve

UK Government & Public Sector

We design and deliver geospatial data infrastructure for central government departments and their arm's-length bodies — at national scale, to national standards. Our work spans land data platforms, environmental monitoring systems, and regulatory data programmes.

Standards

UK GEMINI 2.3INSPIRE DirectiveDEFRA DAFISO 19115QFAIR

Clients Include

DefraAPHANatural EnglandEnvironment AgencyForestry Commission

Energy & Offshore Infrastructure

From North Sea carbon capture to subsea pipeline QC across 8 countries — we understand the geospatial demands of energy infrastructure at every phase: survey, design, construction, and operations. Offshore-hardened, standards-compliant, always delivery-ready.

Standards

IOGP SSDM v2PODSISO 19115ISO 19107OGC WFS/WMS

Clients Include

StoreggaTengizchevroilNorth Sea operators

Credentials

Certified. Experienced. Accountable.

PMP Certified
PMI #4139391
Esri Advanced
Enhanced GIS
IOGP SSDM v2
Implementation
UK GEMINI 2.3
Specialist
ISO 19115
Compliant
9+ Years
Active Delivery

About Us

The People Behind the Work

ActiveSense was founded in 2017 by Soheil Sotoodeh, PMP. We are a lean specialist practice — two directors, a trusted network of expert subcontractors, and a track record that spans 9+ years, 8 countries, and the UK government's most demanding geospatial data programmes.

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