Partnership Profile: Eagleview

Ecopia AI & Eagleview: leaders in geospatial innovation

Imagery and vector data play complementary roles in geospatial analysis, and both are essential for turning location data into actionable insight. While imagery provides rich visual context and up-to-date representations of the real world, vector data translates the data visible in imagery into structured, machine-readable features - such as roads, buildings, and land cover - that can be queried, measured, modeled, and integrated into analytical workflows. Together, imagery and vector data form the foundation of accurate, scalable, and repeatable geospatial analysis.

As a leading provider of aerial imagery and geospatial intelligence in North America, Eagleview delivers location-based insights to a large and diverse set of customers across industries, including the public sector. Many of these government agencies require not only imagery, but also corresponding vector data for their GIS and mapping workflows. However, traditional vector data creation solutions involve manually tracing individual features in imagery, a highly resource- and time-intensive process that often inhibits organizations from keeping geospatial databases current. 

Since 2013, Ecopia AI (Ecopia) has enabled organizations across industries to access comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date geospatial data without manual digitization. Ecopia’s AI map engine digitizes imagery at continental scales in just a matter of weeks without sacrificing the data quality geospatial professionals need for visualization, analytics, and decision-making. This makes it possible to bypass the constraints of traditional map creation and keep geospatial data up-to-date in a dynamically changing world as fresh imagery is captured.

Empowering the public sector with advanced geospatial insights

Combining our respective expertise, Ecopia and Eagleview have partnered to address these longstanding challenges in acquiring scalable, current, and accurate mapping data. Leveraging Eagleview’s high-resolution aerial imagery, Ecopia’s AI-based mapping systems extract classified vector layers such as roads, sidewalks, vegetation, impervious surfaces, and building footprints, all with >95% geometric accuracy to provide actionable insights about real-world conditions. The efficiency and scalability of Ecopia’s map engine facilitate rapid data updates with the latest Eagleview imagery, providing government agencies with a current geospatial database that accurately reflects the physical world.

This partnership provides Eagleview’s imagery customers in the US and Canadian public sector with the opportunity to acquire corresponding high-precision mapping data from Ecopia, supporting a wide variety of use cases requiring both high-resolution imagery and geometrically accurate vector data, such as:

Stormwater management & climate resilience

Municipalities, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and other government agencies rely on detailed pervious (e.g., vegetation, bare land) and impervious surfaces (e.g., pavement, buildings) to improve flood and runoff modeling, support stormwater and drainage fee programs, and develop infrastructure strategies that enhance long-term climate resilience.

Tax & property assessment

High-precision geospatial insights allow assessors to remotely verify property features such as pools, driveways, outbuildings, and impervious areas - minimizing costly field inspections, improving roll accuracy, and ensuring fair and equitable taxation.

Urban planning

Land cover data helps public sector planning professionals understand land use in detail so they can make informed decisions about growth, infrastructure investment, environmental protection, and resilience planning.

Emergency response

Equipping emergency managers and public safety agencies with a data-driven view of the built environment enhances mitigation strategies, evacuation planning, emergency services routing, and response coordination.

Infrastructure & asset management

Maintaining a current, GIS-ready inventory of roads, sidewalks, bridges, grass, and tree cover streamlines asset tracking, prioritizes maintenance, and supports grant funding applications or capital improvement plans.

Learn more about Ecopia’s partnership with Eagleview

Together, Ecopia and Eagleview are expanding public sector access to actionable, high-quality geospatial data. Pairing the resolution of Eagleview imagery with the power of Ecopia’s AI map engine, we’re empowering government organizations to plan smarter, respond faster, and drive better outcomes for their communities. 

To learn more or request a demo, get in touch with Eagleview’s team.

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About Eagleview
Eagleview is a leader in geospatial technology, providing solutions that transform the way our customers work. Eagleview is renowned for its geospatial data and 3.5 billion+ image library which encompasses 94% of the U.S. population. Eagleview’s unique technology portfolio comprises more than 300 patents, enabling it to offer highly differentiated software, imagery, and analytics products for multiple industries.

About Ecopia AI
Ecopia is on a mission to create a digital twin of the Earth. We leverage artificial intelligence to convert high-resolution imagery into high-precision 3D vector map data at scale. This data creates a digital representation of the physical world, forming the foundation of a digital twin for visualization, analytics, and decision-making. Ecopia’s data is leveraged by hundreds of commercial and government organizations across more than 100 countries around the world.