Updates
Update: water & offshore mapping joins the stack
TwinSphere now spans space, air, ground and water — coastlines, ports, ships and offshore assets, in one continuous model.
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Blog
News, projects & field notes.
Product updates, project stories, tutorials and use cases from the team mapping the world.
Updates
News
Super-resolution: getting more detail out of every pixel
Resolution is the currency of Earth Observation. A 30 cm satellite scene tells you a lot; a 7.5 cm one tells you whether a manhole cover has shifted. The catch…
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News
Introducing TwinSphere: end-to-end Earth Observation, from space to ground
We are building one platform that takes you from a satellite tasking all the way to a navigable 3D digital twin — no vendor juggling.
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News
HD maps in OpenDRIVE: lane-level detail for autonomous teams
Autonomous-driving and ADAS teams do not need a pretty map — they need a precise, machine-readable one. So our HD mapping now exports directly to ASAM OpenDRIV…
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Datasets
Vehicle Detection in Satellite Imagery (Single‑Frame, High‑Resolution)
Single-frame vehicle detection from high-resolution satellite imagery, split into large- and small-vehicle classes.
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Projects
A building map of all Australia and Oceania
A comprehensive, high-precision vector map of every building across Australia and Oceania.
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News
ChatGIS: ask your map a question in plain language
GIS is powerful and, for most people, intimidating. Buffers, joins, projections, attribute queries — the data holds the answer, but getting it out means knowin…
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News
Turning the physical world into digital intelligence
An AI-powered mapping system and partnership network that convert a complex, changing world into decision-ready data.
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Projects
Project: a single intersection, from satellite pass to real-time 3D twin
We took a single junction through every layer of our pipeline — the same workflow we run for an entire city.
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Datasets
A 10 m LULC dataset with 24 actionable classes
A 10-metre land-use/land-cover map segmented into 24 distinct classes — broad-area intelligence ready for analysis.
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Tutorials
How building classification works: from pixels to LoD2
A “building” on a map can mean very different things. Sometimes it is a flat footprint polygon; sometimes a block extruded to a guessed height; sometimes a fai…
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Tutorials
Drone mapping for smart infrastructure management: a complete guide
How drone mapping and aerial surveying transform infrastructure inspection for bridges, roads, pipelines and power lines — implementation, technology and AI integration.
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Projects
The most comprehensive building map of Australia & Oceania
A continent-scale building dataset built for decision-making across planning, insurance, logistics and response.
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Tutorials
Mapping impervious surfaces for stormwater and climate planning
When rain falls on a forest it soaks in. When it falls on asphalt it runs off — fast — and that runoff is what overwhelms drains, floods streets and carries po…
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Guides
From imagery to insights to solutions
The pipeline that turns raw pixels into impervious-surface intelligence — and intelligence into municipal decisions.
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Tutorials
Tutorial: set up AOI monitoring and change notifications
Lock an area of interest, choose a cadence, and get an alert the moment something changes on the ground.
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Use cases
Scaling geospatial data creation for national GIS
How AI-driven extraction lets national and regional GIS operations produce current data at a scale manual digitising never could.
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Tutorials
Building footprint extraction at city and country scale
Building footprints are one of the most-requested geospatial layers — for cadastre, insurance, telecoms planning, population estimates and the base of every 3D…
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Projects
High-precision land cover for smarter stormwater management
Precise impervious-surface data turns stormwater fees, flood modelling and runoff planning from estimates into measurements.
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Case studies
Road Damage Detection & Classification
Road-surface damage detected and sorted into cracks, patches and seams — scalable, data-driven condition assessment.
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Tutorials
From OpenStreetMap to a drivable world in Unreal Engine
A digital twin you can only look at is a picture. A digital twin you can drive, fly and walk through is a simulator — and that is where the real value sits for…
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Case studies
Berlin Urban Mobility & Parking Analytics
An intelligent map of Berlin's streets with parking-occupancy analytics layered on top of the road network.
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Use cases
Use case: HD maps and digital twins for autonomous vehicles
Self-driving programmes burn enormous time and money on two things: building accurate maps of where they operate, and testing the vehicle against the near-infi…
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News
HD mapping for urban planning in Orlando, Florida
A high-definition mapping dataset for the Orlando metropolitan region, built to support urban planning.
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Use cases
Use case: protecting the grid with vegetation encroachment alerts
How utilities use repeat imagery, AI and change detection to find risk along transmission corridors before it causes outages.
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Tutorials
2D, 3D, SD or HD: choosing the right map for the job
“We need a map” is the start of a conversation, not the end of one. The right product depends entirely on what you are going to do with it. Here is a plain-lan…
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Projects
Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery
Multi-class vehicle detection with per-object attributes from low-altitude aerial imagery over Africa.
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Guides
GIS for transportation accessibility: four applications
Four real-world ways GIS and detailed transport data widen access to jobs, healthcare and services.
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Use cases
Use case: rapid change mapping for disaster response
When a flood, storm or earthquake hits, the first question responders ask is the hardest to answer quickly: what changed, and where? Crews cannot be everywhere…
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Use cases
AI-powered geospatial data for next-generation emergency response
Modernising emergency response for a mobile society starts with accurate, current geospatial data.
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Case studies
Japan Multi‑City Land Cover & Road Infrastructure Mapping
Land cover and road infrastructure mapped consistently across 17 Japanese cities — from Tokyo and Osaka to Sapporo and Sendai.
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Use cases
The Digital Twin Imperative: Geoenabling Resilience, Planning, and Analytics Across Industries
Why a geospatial digital twin has become essential infrastructure for resilience, planning and analytics across industries.
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Use cases
Use case: planning a city with a navigable digital twin
Planning decisions are spatial, but they are too often made on flat drawings and imagination. A digital twin — a true-to-life, measurable 3D model of the city …
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Case studies
France Land Cover & Land Use Mapping
France mapped into seven land-cover and land-use classes — forest, agriculture, urban, water, rangeland, bareland and road.
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News
Collaborating with Sapporo on smart transportation planning
High-precision geospatial data to support Sapporo's active-transportation and urban-planning programmes.
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Projects
An AI-powered geospatial inventory for dam safety
Dams quietly run modern life — water, power, flood control. A complete, current geospatial inventory is the first step to managing their risk.
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Use cases
Cutting emergency response times with better routing
When seconds count, an accurate, current road network is what lets dispatch find the nearest unit and the fastest route.
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Case studies
Berlin Multi‑Class Land Cover & Transportation Mapping
Berlin's urban surface segmented into nine primary classes plus attributes — roads, shoulders, keep-out areas and more.
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News
New agricultural land-use data layers
Fresh land-cover intelligence with dedicated agricultural classes — crops, bare soil, shrubland, wetland and more.
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News
A building-based geocoding platform with flood analytics and change detection
A geocoding platform that ties flood-zone analytics and change detection to each individual building.
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Case studies
Vehicle Damage Detection from Gate Camera Imagery
Vehicle damage detected from gate-camera images as oriented bounding boxes — automated inspection at the gate.
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Use cases
Building-specific geocoding for reinsurance portfolios
Underwriting property risk at the building, not the postcode — geocoding precise enough to optimise a reinsurance portfolio.
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Guides
Top applications for building-footprint data
From insurance to logistics to planning — the many uses of accurate, attributed building footprints.
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Datasets
Münster at 2 cm: a new bar for aerial detail
An aerial dataset over Münster, Germany at 2 cm resolution — capturing the city in extraordinary detail.
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Use cases
Predictive analytics and GIS in transportation planning
Combining predictive analytics with GIS to build safer, more accessible, lower-carbon transport networks.
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News
Building-based geocoding for sharper insurance decisions
Geocoding to the building, not the street — HD vector maps that give underwriters a precise digital record of each structure.
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Case studies
Roeselare Road Line Quality Classification
Road-marking quality assessed across Roeselare, Belgium from satellite and panchromatic imagery.
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Guides
Change detection mapping: a practical guide
Why time is the fourth dimension of mapping, and how automated change detection keeps a map honest.
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Datasets
Paired image & LiDAR labelling for Germany (650 pairs)
650 co-registered RGB-image and LiDAR point-cloud samples, labelled for multimodal model training.
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Case studies
Barcelona Land Cover & Transportation Mapping
Barcelona's surface mapped automatically into 13 land-cover and transportation classes for planning and environmental work.
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Projects
Munich University Campus
A full multi-layer feature extraction across the Munich University campus — points, polylines and polygons in one pass.
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Datasets
From pixels to purpose: road-type classification from satellite
Classifying road types from medium-resolution satellite imagery to complete the picture of a city's transport network.
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Use cases
Airbus imagery + vector maps for land administration
High-resolution imagery and HD vector maps combined to give local government a current, reliable basemap for land administration.
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Case studies
Thistle Weed Detection Using Bounding Boxes
Individual thistle weeds detected in agricultural fields with bounding-box object detection — precision agriculture in practice.
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Projects
HD Maps for Autonomous Vehicles
An HD map of the Leverkusen region built for automated driving — where lane-level precision stops being optional.
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Use cases
Geospatial data in telecom civil engineering
How accurate basemaps and asset layers underpin civil-engineering work on telecommunications projects.
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Guides
Transportation mapping for smart-city planning
How detailed, current transport layers underpin safe, efficient mobility for DOTs and metropolitan planners.
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Case studies
Roadside Infrastructure Detection
Roadside elements — curbstones, fences, guardrails and borders — detected and classified into five categories.
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Case studies
Car Part Segmentation from Gate Camera Imagery
Fine-grained segmentation of individual vehicle parts from gate-camera images — each panel a labelled polygon.
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Guides
An impervious-surface & stormwater mapping checklist
A practical checklist for municipalities adopting geospatial solutions for stormwater and impervious-surface management.
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Projects
Finding the gaps in a transport network with GIS
AI-extracted road, path and crossing layers reveal where a mobility network is incomplete — and who it leaves behind.
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Projects
Vehicle Tracking Across Frame Sequences (Multi‑Class)
Multi-object tracking across drone video — per-frame boxes and continuous trajectories with attributes.
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Use cases
Master address data, built on building-based geocoding
Why building-based geocoding is the gold standard for property intelligence in insurance and beyond.
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Guides
Transportation mapping: applications and data sources
A tour of transportation mapping's many GIS applications — and where to get the data each one needs.
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Datasets
Road boundary & route extraction from 50,000 EV-camera images
Polyline road boundaries and route paths extracted at scale from 50,000 forward-facing EV dashcam frames.
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Guides
The Ultimate Guide to Impervious Surface Data
What impervious-surface data is, how it is made, and why it has become essential to stormwater and land management.
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Guides
Funding routes for stormwater mapping initiatives
A practical look at the EU programmes that can fund municipal stormwater and land-cover mapping work.
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News
Mapping Switzerland's buildings for rural broadband
An accurate, current map of every building across Switzerland to plan rural broadband rollout.
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News
Partnering on high-precision mapping for EU wildfire resilience
High-precision land-cover and fuel mapping to support wildfire mitigation and response across the European Union.
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Case studies
Road Line Classification & Quality Assessment
Road markings classified by type, checked for occlusion and graded for physical quality — at scale.
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Case studies
Bruges Road Surface Damage & Texture Classification
Road-surface damage and texture classified across Bruges from satellite and panchromatic imagery — condition surveying without the drive-around.
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Datasets
A landmark vector dataset for Moscow
A high-resolution, satellite-derived vector dataset of Moscow with exceptional detail in infrastructure and assets.
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Projects
Building classification: turning rooftops into decisions
A computer-vision dataset that sorts buildings into 35+ types — the backbone for insurance, planning and risk analytics.
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