Aug 16, 2021

New AI partnership finesses digital models of urban Australia 16 August 2021 Geoscape Australia has partnered with Israeli artificial intelligence start-up GeoX to use machine technology to enhance its 3D digital maps of Australia. Government-owned Geoscape says the collaboration will advance knowledge about every address across the country. The up-to-date data will improve risk assessment for insurers and help architects visualise new developments and model noise and energy use patterns. Geoscape has mapped all buildings and land cover across Australia using satellite imagery and accesses high resolution aerial imagery from Aerometrex’s image library. It now plans to re-map more than 10 million buildings using GeoX’s AI tech, which will include most urban buildings in Australia, and recapture and enhance all remaining buildings across the country. “By applying GeoX’s patented AI technology to the highest quality aerial imagery we will significantly evolve our digital model of Australia,” Geoscape Australia CEO Dean Capobianco said. “Advanced information about the built environment, on a national scale, can drive efficiency, cost reduction, insight and revenue generation across many sectors of the economy, including insurance, property development, energy and telecommunications.” From October, Geoscape will include location data derived using GeoX’s AI technology in its Geoscape Buildings and Surface Cover data products. It plans annual updates of 3D data for urban areas, higher definition of complex building outlines, greater accuracy of building heights and more complete solar panel and swimming pool data. GeoX Co-founder and CEO Izik Lavy said the in-depth mapping of Australia’s buildings was one of the most extensive and advanced projects in the world and "opens a new generation of accuracy and richness of built environment data, providing a leap forward for Geoscape compared to the technologies used so far.” “By leveraging our tech and Geoscape’s continuous data processing capability, every organisation in Australia can access reliable and advanced property data,” Mr Lavy said. Related articles