Ecopia AI Provides Statewide Land Cover & Transportation Data to Connecticut

May 14, 2026 - Toronto - Ecopia AI (Ecopia) has provided the State of Connecticut with high-precision land cover and transportation mapping data, empowering cities and government agencies across the state with accurate and current geospatial insights for a wide range of analytics and planning purposes.

Extracted from aerial imagery across Connecticut’s entire 5,543 square mile area, this dataset provides 28 planimetric vector layers representing both the natural and built environments, including:

• Impervious surfaces for stormwater management and flood modeling
• Building footprints for emergency services routing and property analytics
• Width-attributed sidewalks, bike lanes, and crosswalks for active transportation planning and safety analysis
• Road lanes and intersections with width attribution for traffic planning workflows

Obtained by the State GIS Office to support statewide planning initiatives, this data is also available for Connecticut government agencies and municipalities to leverage in their own programs and workflows. 

Traditional data creation methods involve manually tracing and digitizing individual features in imagery, a process that is not only resource-intensive and time-consuming but can also introduce data inconsistencies resulting from the differing interpretations of multiple geospatial analysts. Ecopia’s AI-based approach streamlines the data creation process, producing a standardized dataset in just a fraction of the time that would be required to manually create a high-accuracy statewide data inventory.

Ecopia has a 10+ year track record of large-scale, high-precision data creation for government agencies. Among the hundreds of public sector organizations leveraging Ecopia data are the Oregon Department of Transportation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA), the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), the Pima Association of Governments (PAG), the Government of Canada, the City of Jacksonville, and the State of Alaska. 

“Producing high-quality geospatial data at statewide scales with traditional methods is challenging, especially when you consider the time and effort it takes to keep that data updated with real-world change,” said Thomas Peck, Senior Associate at Ecopia. “Our AI map engine makes it possible to extract features from the latest imagery at a large scale with human-level accuracy, empowering government stakeholders with a digital source of truth for the physical world.”

To learn more about Ecopia’s statewide data creation capabilities, get in touch with our team.

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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.