Building footprint layers are useful in preparing basemaps and analysis workflows for urban planning and development. They are also used in insurance, taxation, change detection, infrastructure planning, and a variety of other applications. This deep learning model is used to extract building footprints from high-resolution (10–40 centimeter) imagery.
Digitizing building footprints from imagery is a time-consuming task and is commonly done by digitizing features manually. Deep learning models have a high capacity to learn these complex workflow semantics and can produce superior results. Use this deep learning model to automate this process and reduce the time and effort required for acquiring building footprints.
License requirements
To complete this workflow, the following are the license requirements:
- ArcGIS Desktop—ArcGIS Image Analyst extension for ArcGIS Pro
- ArcGIS Enterprise—ArcGIS Image Server
- ArcGIS Online—ArcGIS Pro or Professional Plus user type.
Model details
This model has the following characteristics:
- Input—Raster, mosaic dataset, or image service.
- Output—Feature class containing building footprints.
- Compute—This workflow is compute intensive and a GPU with compute capability of 6.0 or higher is recommended.
- Applicable geographies—This model is designed to work well in the United States.
- Architecture—This model uses the MaskRCNN model architecture implemented in ArcGIS API for Python.
- Accuracy metrics—This model has an average precision score of 0.786.
Access and download the model
Download the Building Footprint Extraction—Africa pretrained model from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Alternatively, access the model directly from ArcGIS Pro, or consume it in ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online.
To download the model, complete the following steps:
- Browse to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
- Sign in with your ArcGIS Online credentials.
- Search for Building Footprint Extraction—Africa and open the item page from the search results.
- Click the Download button to download the model.You can use the downloaded .dlpk file directly in ArcGIS Pro, or upload and use it in ArcGIS Enterprise. Additionally, you can fine-tune the pretrained model if necessary.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
| Date | Description |
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| July 2021 |
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