Infoterra’s services support the consistent analysis of status and trends and a sustainable planning of urban and regional development, as well as monitoring the success of planning measures.

Infoterra offers approaches to monitor urban growth and soil sealing at scales ranging from 1:10,000 to 1:25,000, as extensive as national or continental coverage, according to client's specifications:

• Urban Functional Maps show the main land use functions within urban areas allowing city planers for instance the assessment of quality of life or identification regions for development or protection;
• Land Take Maps provide a detailed inventory of artificial surfaces in relation to other land cover classes, including a calculation of the degree of sealing;
• Land Take Change Maps capture the changes of sealed surfaces by comparing the latest land take maps to those assessed in the past;
• Land Take Trends illustrate links between population increase/decrease and environmental pressures, trends in land consumption and others;
• Land Consumption Impact Assessments evaluate these links, incorporating sealing intensity, zoning, valuable soils lost and demographic developments.

TerraSAR-X significantly supports such applications with reliable multiscale, multitemporal and multipolarised observations, particularly of remote or cloud-covered areas that were formerly almost impossible to capture.

For further details, please do not hesitate to contact Infoterra's Customer Service Team at +49 7545 8 4344 or via eMail.