Geospatial image editing with AI, in QGIS

AI Edit, the QGIS plugin by TerraLab, generates a project on your own aerial imagery. Describe what you want to show, a redevelopment, a planted street, a flood, or a clean site plan, and it generates it over the area you selected. The result comes back georeferenced on the source orthophoto and marked as AI-generated, so it holds up in a client file or a planning submission.

A georeferenced image, aligned with your orthophoto. On a land cover or building map, the Vectorize button turns it into a layer of editable polygons, one class per color, each carrying its class name and its area in m². The layer is saved as a GeoPackage and exports to SHP or GeoJSON. A development project stays an image.

Yes. You get 3 free images at 2K every month, renewed automatically, no credit card. Install the plugin, create a free account and start mapping right away.

Any RGB layer you can display in QGIS: drone orthomosaics, aerial photos, satellite basemaps, scanned historical maps. Multispectral and hyperspectral bands are not supported yet.

A generation covers the area you select, at 2K on Free and up to 4K on Pro. For big maps, run it section by section: every result is georeferenced, so the outputs align perfectly.

Open QGIS, go to Plugins, search for "AI Edit" and click Install. No separate download needed. Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

QGIS 3.22 or later and an internet connection, on Windows, macOS or Linux. No GPU: the generation runs online, on our AI provider, so a standard work laptop is enough.

The area you select, its location, your prompt and your reference images are stored on our servers in Europe. The generation itself runs on an AI provider in the USA that may process them outside the European Union, and that partner deletes them within 30 days. We do not train any model on them and we do not share them. Keeping them is what gives you your generation history, which stays until you delete it, or on Pro for the time you choose, from 30 days to 1 year. On Pro only you see it. You can export or delete everything yourself from the Account section of your dashboard.

Yes, companies already run AI Edit Pro daily. Each seat is its own €29/mo subscription with its own account. For several seats, centralized billing or volume pricing, contact us.

The plugin talks to one server, over HTTPS. It sends the area you pick, your prompt, your reference images and the visible layers drawn over that area, with their names. Each shows as a card you can remove. Hidden layers are not sent and we never open your project file.

No, AI Edit is QGIS-only. QGIS is free and runs alongside ArcGIS, and the georeferenced outputs import anywhere as standard rasters.

Yes. Write to us and we send a quote before anyone pays, then one invoice for the whole team. We take purchase orders and bank transfers, and we can bill once a year to match your budget. We answer within a day.

Yes, automatically. Every output carries the model provider's invisible watermark in its pixels, plus standard IPTC/XMP metadata that marks it as AI generated (digital source type "trained algorithmic media"). The file also holds plain tags: AI_GENERATED=TRUE, the note "Synthetic imagery, not survey data", the date and a request id. Your prompt is not written into the file, so sharing it does not share your prompt. The tags show up in QGIS (Properties > Metadata), in ArcGIS and in any tool that reads file metadata, so a generated image is not mistaken for a real aerial survey.