Ecopia Building Footprints powered by DigitalGlobe takes care of the tedious work, so you can focus on the analysis. By leveraging the most advanced high-resolution satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, and cloud-compute power available, we build and deliver precision footprint shapefiles at the scale your projects demand.
Organizations across all industries are spending too much time and money procuring and producing data only to obtain building footprints derived from inaccurate and outdated sources. Your organization needs to detect and classify infrastructure, and you need a resource you can trust to be both precise and up-to-date. DigitalGlobe offers both at the scale you need, from individual metros to entire continents.
Rapid production ensures you receive up-to-date building footprints for your specific area of interest.
Semi-automated footprint extraction combines the best of artificial intelligence and human analysis for consistent, geometrically accurate outlines of each structure's ground-level footprint across dynamic built environments.
Accuracy
More than 95% valid interpretation
Global availability
No geographical restrictions
Rapid production
40 million footprints produced per month
Attribution
Metadata includes image and extraction dates
Quickly identify emerging opportunities or risks by expediting and enhancing the way you procure and produce data.
Focused on the United States or a specific city within the country? Access GIS-ready shapefiles today.
Access global, current data with select areas available off the shelf. All other areas are available upon request with rapid production and/or refresh. Order includes geometrically accurate outlines of each structure's ground-level footprint, complete with metadata containing image date and extraction date.
| Accuracy (footprint geometry) | Coverage | Updates / maintenance schedule | Vintage / source data date | Source data resolution | Source data horizontal accuracy | License | Product spec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecopia Building Footprints powered by DigitalGlobe | 95% accurate | 169 million Entire US |
US: Semi-annual Global: On-demand |
< 12 months - 36 months old | 50 cm or better | +/- 4 M CE90 | Commercial licenses available to support integration and/or resale, providing customer retention of derived intellectual property (IP) | Yes |
| Open source building footprints | Varied, not specified across dataset | 125 Million 74% of US |
No set schedule | Variable, unattributed, produced indiscriminately | Produced indiscriminately. Not Specificed. | Not specified | ODBL License requires all integrated data and/or derived intellectual property (IP) be shared publicly via ODBL | No |
Can your project benefit from fast, accurate building footprints? Get started with a quote.
