Local governments rely on high-resolution digital maps for a wide range of critical work — planning smart-city initiatives and transport projects, modelling flood risk and ensuring equitable property-tax assessment. As cities expand, the need for accurate, current land-use/land-cover data only grows.
The challenge
Acquiring both the imagery and the matching LU/LC layers is hard for land-administration authorities worldwide:
- Sourcing current imagery — up-to-date, high-resolution imagery is costly and difficult to access, especially on a public-sector budget.
- Labour-intensive digitisation — hand-delineating land-use polygons is slow and resource-heavy, impractical for large-scale or frequent updates.
- Unreliable automation — many automated tools produce inconsistent results that need extensive manual correction.
A combined solution
Pairing high-resolution Airbus imagery with our HD vector maps closes both gaps at once: fresh imagery and accurate, attributed land-cover layers in one reliable foundation — current enough for planning, consistent enough for tax assessment, and affordable enough to refresh.
