DigitalGlobe, announced that they produced the first precision, GIS-ready building footprints dataset of the entire United States in partnership with Ecopia Tech Corporation. Ecopia U.S. Building Footprints powered by DigitalGlobe, available for order, includes more than 169 million building footprints created by proprietary artificial intelligence algorithms in combination with DigitalGlobe's high-resolution, high-accuracy satellite imagery. Ecopia U.S. Building Footprints powered by DigitalGlobe have already enabled a number of projects: Natural gas pipeline operators are federally required to annually locate, count and classify every building within a specific distance of their pipeline. One of the large pipeline operators in the U.S. streamlined a traditionally manual and time-consuming workflow for locating and digitizing building footprints by using more than 700,000 building footprints, which were produced in a matter of days instead of the traditional months-long timeframe. The partnership created 18 million building footprints in three weeks, supporting public health campaigns, sustainability initiatives, and risk reduction. DigitalGlobe and Ecopia.ai will extract building footprints for major international locations by the beginning of 2019. Additionally, the partnership is ready to produce building footprints anywhere in the world based on customer request.