Understand the built environment like never before
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too much time and money procuring and producing data only to obtain building footprints derived from inaccurate and outdated sources.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.
Feel confident in your data
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
>95% Valid interpretation
Global availability
No geographical restrictions
Rapid production
40 million footprints per month
Attribution
Metadata includes image and extraction dates
Accelerate your workflow
Quickly identify emerging opportunities or risks by expediting and enhancing the way you procure and produce data.
USA Off-the-Shelf
Focused on the United States or a specific city within the country? Access GIS-ready shapefiles today.
Built-to-order global building footprints
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.
Rapid production ensures you receive up-to-date building footprints for your specific area of interest.
*Sample data contains imagery for reference purposes. Imagery is sold separately.
Comparing footprints
| 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 indescriminitely | Not specified | Not specified | ODBL License requires all integrated data and/or derived intellectual property (IP) be shared publicly via ODBL | No |
| Ecopia Building Footprints powered by DigitalGlobe | Open Source building footprints | |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy (Footprint Geometry) | 95% accurate | Varied, not specified across dataset |
| Coverage | 169 Million - Entire US | 125 Million - 74% of US |
| Updates/Maintenance Schedule | US - Semi-annual Global - On-demand |
No set schedule |
| Vintage/Source data date | < 12 months -36 months old | Variable, unattributed, produced indescriminitely |
| Source Data Resolution | 50 cm or better | Not specified |
| Source Data Horizontal Accuracy | +/- 4 M CE90 | Not specified |
| License | Commercial licenses available to support integration and/or resale, providing customer retention of derived intellectual property (IP) | ODBL License requires all integrated data and/or derived intellectual property (IP) be shared publicly via ODBL |
| Product Spec | Yes | No |