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Automatically Extracted Buildings

“Automatically Extracted Buildings” is a raw digital product in vector format created by NRCan. The feature classes of this product delineate polygonal building footprints automatically extracted from airborne Lidar data, high-resolution optical imagery or other sources.

The first feature class, Automatically Extracted Buildings by acquisition source, contains building footprints delivered according to the spatial extent of each source dataset used for extraction. When the spatial extents of acquisition sources overlap, footprints for the same building may therefore be duplicated in this class.

The second feature class, Optimized Buildings Layer, is an assembled and harmonized layer derived from the buildings by acquisition source. Its objective is to provide a unique representation of each building footprint by removing duplicates and resolving overlaps between sources.

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Date Created

2018-11

Date Published

2025-08

Temporal Coverage

2006 - Present

Access in last 30 days

34

All time access

2,722

Source(s) and Citation

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Geoscience and Earth Monitoring Sector. (2025-08). Automatically Extracted Buildings.

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