Managing Urban Development
High-precision dynamic data to manage your urban footprint.
Managing urban development: A multi-faceted goal
Today:
- The soil has become impermeable.
- There are growing hazards (floods, heat, etc.).
- Biodiversity is in freefall.
- The rural-urban divide is widening.
Managing urban development is a global challenge, as reflected by the European Union’s net-zero urban development strategy (ZAN) to halt soil degradation and increased urban development.
The solution?
To manage and steer local development trends.
How?
Stakeholders must:
- Gain a precise, objective, qualitative, dynamic and profound understanding of their region.
- Obtain reliable data on urban development and the pressure exerted on farmland, forests and natural areas.
Strategic data for effective and resilient management, specific to each region
- Land use on all scales, from small to very large.
- Historical, present-day and projected mapping.
- Detection of potential renaturalization and urban development zones.
- Databases on land-use trends, land appropriation and statistics.
30 years of experience in land mapping.
50%+ of French towns and cities mapped.
900+ large-scale urban agglomerations mapped across Europe and around the world.
50 in-house geographers, urban planners, environmentalists and geomatics engineers working together to help create prosperous and resilient communities.
CLS has developed a fast and reliable solution
CLS supplies high-precision maps adapted to your specific regional concerns.
Analysis
Expert analysis of regional issues and concerns:
- Context
- Challenges
- Stakeholders
- Exploitable data
- Constraints
Methodology
Multi-criteria data processing:
- Aerial or satellite imagery: photo interpretation, AI: Machine Learning etc.
- Specialist and client data: optimization, production.
- On-the-ground inspection and verification.
Agile Mapping
A range of solutions:
- for producing a standardized, precise, dynamic and well-documented cartographic database,
- adapted to the local context.
Sector experts
CLS teams are made up of geographers, urban planners and geomaticians who understand the business needs of land managers.
Flagship projects
Urban Atlas
The European Union has long sought to develop a detailed understanding of the region and in particular of its developmental trends.
The challenge is to develop detailed environmental conservation policies.
To this end, for more than a decade, CLS has been responsible for the large-scale land use mapping of all of Europe’s 800 urban agglomerations in order to measure their environmental impact.
Land use mapping
In conjunction with ADEUPA Brest, CLS has developed a service that automatically produces land use maps down to cadastral level, through the analysis and cross-referencing of
specialist data (IGN, CEREMA, ASP, etc.).
Users can quickly and easily view the specific land use of each individual plot and receive regular updates, enabling them to monitor farmland, forests and natural areas and track urban development.