Road layers are useful in preparing basemaps and analysis workflows for urban planning and development, change detection, infrastructure planning, and a variety of other applications. Digitizing roads from imagery is a time-consuming task and is commonly done by digitizing features manually. Deep learning models are highly capable of learning these complex semantics and can produce better results. Use this deep learning model to automate the task of road extraction and reduce the time and effort required.
License requirements
To complete this workflow, the following are the license requirements:
- ArcGIS Desktop—ArcGIS Image Analyst and ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension for ArcGIS Pro
- ArcGIS Enterprise—ArcGIS Image Server with raster analytics configured
- ArcGIS Online—ArcGIS Pro or Professional Plus user type.
Model details
This model has the following characteristics:
- Input—This model uses a raster, mosaic dataset, or image service (30–50 centimeter spatial resolution).
- Output—This model produces a binary raster representing road and nonroad classes.
- 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, Canada, and Mexico.
- Architecture—This model uses the MultiTaskRoadExtractor model architecture implemented in ArcGIS API for Python.
- Accuracy metrics—This model has an mIOU score of 0.65.
Access and download the model
Download the Road Extraction—North America pretrained model from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Alternatively, access the model directly from ArcGIS Pro using the Extract Features Using AI Models ArcGIS Pro tool, or consume it in ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online.
- Browse to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
- Sign in with your ArcGIS Online credentials.
- Search for Road Extraction—North America 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:
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