3D data for Australia's built environment

Release 1.5 – Buildings, trees and surface cover – with 15.5 million buildings now available.

PSMA Geoscape captures extensive 3D data about Australia’s built environment. This initiative is based on satellite and selected aerial imagery.

Geoscape Includes:

  • Building roof polygon (including number of vertices and roof area)
  • Maximum roof height (above ground)
  • Average eave height (above ground)
  • Elevation (above sea level)
  • Primary roof material classification
  • Solar panel and swimming pool indicators
  • Zone and residential indicator
  • Image capture date
  • Linkages to PSMA G-NAF and CadLite
  • Surface cover
  • Tree coverage and height

Why choose Callpoint Spatial for Geoscape?

We are PSMA’s first reseller to have licensed Geoscape

You gain access to the extensive experience we’ve built in helping customers across the telecoms, government, professional services, engineering, acoustics and tertiary/ health research sectors

Our value-added Geoscape Extra, plus a range of customisation options

One stop: we license the full PSMA dataset suite

So that you can meet your complete PSMA dataset needs by sourcing from us

Our advisory capacity

Callpoint Spatial Geoscape Extra:

PSMA Geoscape is a rather complex dataset. The Buildings Theme alone has 28 attribution tables associated with the key Building Polygon geometry data. To improve Geoscape’s functionality, joins need to be made from key attribution table columns back to the Building Polygon geometry data.

In other words, the raw PSMA Geoscape requires fair work to be put to use. The resulting processes then need to be repeated each quarterly update. These processes may need to be revised should PSMA update the Geoscape data model.

To help our customers, Callpoint Spatial’s Geoscape Extra includes the results of these numerous table joins. We perform these processes for each jurisdiction on a quarterly basis.

Callpoint Spatial Geoscape Extra can be delivered in formats including MySQL database backup, Microsoft SQL Server database backup, Shapefile/Geodatabase and TAB.

Application Ideas

The resources on this page suggest potential applications across telco, professional services, health care, real estate and solar energy to name a few. For further details including licensing please contact us.

Telecoms – fibre optic

Telecoms – wireless

Professional services

Healthcare research

Tree canopies and heights

Solar panels

Swimming pools

Telecoms – fibre optic

For accurate fibre optic pricing and modelling, the Cadlite/ G-NAF combination may not suffice.

Being able to access building polygon data can be highly beneficial. Geoscape provides building footprint data.

Above: PSMA Geoscape (Adelaide March 2019).  Building polygons are shaded light purple

The green dots represent the coordinates of addresses, and are sourced from PSMA’s separate G-NAF dataset

The black outlines represent land parcel boundaries, sourced from PSMA’s separate CadLite dataset

The light blue street polyline layer is sourced from PSMA’s separate Transport & Topography dataset

 

Telecoms – wireless

Geoscape’s building outline, elevation and other data can provide important input to your RF propogation/ wireless network coverage modelling.

 Above: PSMA Geoscape (October 2018).  The 3D extrusions reference the building polygon’s “max_height” attribution column.

The blue street polyline layer is sourced from PSMA’s separate Transport & Topography dataset

Professional Services

When coupled with ABS data, Geoscape’s zoning and other attribution can support a range of geo-demographic modelling applications.

Above: PSMA Geoscape (Adelaide March 2019)

The building polygons are shaded according to the zoning colour legend on the left

The grey street polyline layer is sourced from PSMA’s separate Transport & Topography dataset

Healthcare research

Access to land cover data including tree coverage can be useful to GIS analysis in the health care research sector.

Above: PSMA Geoscape (Adelaide March 2019).

The black outlines represent land parcel boundaries, sourced from PSMA’s separate CadLite dataset

Tree canopies and heights

Geoscape’s 2m Tree Cover data provides height attribution. This can prove useful in applications from conservation to wireless telecoms.

Above: PSMA Geoscape (Melbourne March 2019)

Tree heights are depicted by depth of green shading.

Solar Panels

Data regarding buildings with installed solar panels can be useful to the renewable energy and nascent domestic power storage industries.

Being able to identify suitable buildings (roof pitch, area and likely minimal shading) can facilitate potential new opportunities.

 Above: Background aerial imagery (c) 2018 Queensland Government

The red outlines (PSMA Geoscape October 2018 edition) show building polygons whose rooftops have been assigned a solar panel indicator.

Swimming Pools

Data regarding buildings that are deemed to have an associated swimming pool can prove useful across multiple sectors and applications.

Above: Background aerial imagery (c) 2018 Queensland Government

The blue outlines (PSMA Geoscape October 2018 edition) show building polygons that are deemed to have an associated swimming pool.

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