Main characteristics of UrbanWatch:
Very high spatial resolution at 1 meter.
Open access (free): https://urbanwatch.charlotte.edu/product.
9 land cover/use types: building, road, parking lot, tree canopy, grass/shrub, water, agriculture, barren, and others.
Overall accuracy of 91.52%.
Coverage of 23 major U.S. cities (more to add).
Peer reviewed and published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment (ranked #1 in remote sensing, impact factor: 10.164).
Cutting-edge AI deep learning algorithm, trained with over 52 million samples to capture diverse land cover and land use types and urban spatial patterns.
Below please find some examples of various types of land cover and land use (e.g., “A”, “B”, and “AA”) and their corresponding results in UrbanWatch (e.g., “A_1”, “B_1”, and “AA_1”).
