Germany to be completely mapped by 2025

"Pioneering" and "exemplary" - these are the words used by Professor Dr. Rudolf Staiger, President of the DVW, to describe this year's winner of the DVW Future Prize, Cop4ALL.de. The project uses open data from the European satellite programme COPERNICUS and analyses the database of optical and radar information with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).

The result is a high-resolution and up-to-date land cover map of Germany. The data will be freely available as interactive web maps in 2025 and will be used in administrative and environmental applications. They form the basis for a modern, technical approach to land management. Responsible for Cop4ALL is Geobasis.

NRW, the State Surveying Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, which has already paved the way for the nationwide project with the Cop4ALL NRW pilot in 2022 with its comprehensive and fully automated land coverage of NRW. The Land Survey is implementing COP4ALL together with the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy in Frankfurt.