Government & Cities
Plan cities with a map that keeps up
Keep building inventories, land use and infrastructure maps current automatically — and spot unpermitted change, informal growth and urban heat early.
- buildings mapped per city, on average
- 1.2Mbuildings mapped per city, on average
- refresh vs. multi-year surveys
- Monthlyrefresh vs. multi-year surveys
- footprint precision
- 95%footprint precision
The challenge
Why the old way doesn’t scale
Teams are asked to make faster, higher-stakes decisions about places they can’t see often enough.
Maps age quickly
Cadastral and land-use data can lag reality by years in fast-growing areas.
Limited field capacity
Inspectors can’t monitor permits and land use across an entire jurisdiction.
Climate adaptation needs data
Heat, flood and green-space planning require consistent, current baselines.
Use cases
What teams do with Lens
Start with a proven workflow, then adapt models, cadences and alerts to your operations.
Models used
- Building footprints v4
- Land cover (12 classes)
- Tree canopy
- Road network
- 01
Building inventory
Maintain footprints, heights and change history for every structure.
- 02
Permit compliance
Flag new construction that doesn’t match issued permits.
- 03
Urban heat & green cover
Map tree canopy, impervious surfaces and heat islands neighborhood by neighborhood.
- 04
Informal settlement mapping
Track growth of unplanned areas to direct services and infrastructure.
“Our planning department finally has a single, current view of the city. Permit audits that took a quarter now take an afternoon.”
Live in weeks, not quarters
A dedicated solutions engineer sets up your areas, models and alerts during a 14-day pilot on your own data.
- Pilot on your own AOIs
- Pre-configured workflows
- Accuracy report on your data
- Integrates with your tools
- Enterprise security
- Transparent, area-based pricing
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See your area of interest through a new lens
Book a 30-minute walkthrough on your own geography. We’ll run live detections and show what’s changed — no GIS expertise required.