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AI SegmentationAI Segmentation QGIS

Every object in your imagery becomes a polygon

Click one object and it is traced. Draw an area and every match inside comes back, ready to export.

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“Tested on a 2+ GB drone orthomosaic with ~600 building footprints. 3-4 hours of manual digitization reduced to under 30 minutes. No manual tracing, no vertex correction. Semi-automated feature extraction is becoming standard.”
Santhosh ASr GIS Planner, Remote Sensing & Drone Mapping
km² free every month in Automatic
1.5
km² a month on Pro, in Automatic
50
QGIS version and up
3.22+

The plugin has two modes

Automatic

A whole area at once

Draw a rectangle, name the object, and every match inside comes back: a 3 km² zone in about 20 seconds. Use it when the objects repeat: roofs, panels, parcels, tree crowns.

Automatic mode detecting every building in an area

Semi-Auto

One object under your cursor

Click the thing you want, it is traced in under a second, you save it and move on. Use it on the awkward ones: a wall, an odd yard, a patch with no clean edge.

Manual point-by-point digitization of buildings in QGIS, no AI

Semi-Auto on My computer: the model runs on your PC, no imagery leaves it, and it works offline.

One word, every match in the zone

Building footprints detected by AI Segmentation on an IGN orthophoto of Le Vésinet

Typed in the panel

building

  • Le Vésinet
  • 7 ha
  • 7 s
5%

More objectsOnly confident

Total area kept

Hover a shape on the map to read its confidence, area and perimeter, as in the attribute table.

How it works

  1. AI Segmentation panel in QGIS with a detection zone drawn on an orthophoto

    Draw your zone

    Pick the imagery layer and outline the area on the map. The panel shows its size in km² before anything runs.

  2. AI Segmentation panel with the prompt building typed in

    Name what to find

    Type a word like building, tree or car, or pick one from the Library. Draw an example on the map when the object is unusual.

  3. AI Segmentation review step with the confidence filter and the detected buildings on the map

    Review, then export

    Keep what you need with the confidence and size filters, correct the rest, then export one vector layer with its attribute table.

From the detection to a clean layer

Start from an example

Ten categories of objects, each with a real before and after. Open one and run it on your own zone.

A real vector layer

Every polygon carries its class, confidence, area and perimeter. Save it as GeoPackage, Shapefile or GeoJSON like any QGIS layer.

Fix what the AI missed

Point at an object the run missed and the AI outlines it. Click a polygon to fix its edge, right-click to delete it.

Cars detected by AI Segmentation in a car park, with a missed van outlined after one clickOutlined by the AI

Clean the outlines

Square the corners of buildings, simplify the edges, round corners or fill holes, on every polygon at once.

Building outlines from AI Segmentation, as detected and with Right angles on

Real runs

What you can detect

Each tile is a real automatic run in QGIS. Every polygon carries its area and a confidence score, so you can filter before you export.

Building footprints - AI detectedAfter
Building footprints - source imageryBefore

Building footprints

Every roof on the block, from your own imagery.

Solar panels - AI detectedAfter
Solar panels - source imageryBefore

Solar panels

A whole solar farm, block by block.

Trees - AI detectedAfter
Trees - source imageryBefore

Trees

925 crowns over parkland, each its own polygon.

Roads & paved surfaces - AI detectedAfter
Roads & paved surfaces - source imageryBefore

Roads & paved surfaces

Road extraction across a dense city district.

Swimming pools - AI detectedAfter
Swimming pools - source imageryBefore

Swimming pools

Every backyard pool in a residential block.

AI Segmentation · Plans and pricing

Free

€0per month

no card

  • 1.5 km² in Automatic mode
  • 20 object detections in Semi-Auto
  • Selection limited to 1.5 km²
  • 1 example per run
  • Not included:Commercial use

Pro

€39/month

Excl. VAT. Cancel anytime.

  • 50 km² in Automatic mode
  • No limit on selection size
  • 500 objects a month in Semi-Auto
  • Commercial use

Business

More volume, or a custom request

Price on request

  • Everything in AI Segmentation Pro

More volume

  • More than 50 km², e.g. 2,000 km² for a client project
  • Valid 12 months, nothing lost at the end of the month

Or a custom request, for example:

  • Fine-tuning on your own objects
  • Running it on your own servers

Prices excl. VAT. Tax is calculated at checkout.

Best value

Pack AI

  • AI Segmentation · Turn aerial imagery into polygons

  • AI Edit · Simulate a project on real imagery

  • AI Agent · The strongest AI for your GIS projects

€117€89/month
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Need more km² on AI Segmentation?

On AI Segmentation Pro, buy km² once when a project needs more than your 50 km² a month. They are used after your monthly km², stay valid 12 months and never renew.

  • 100 km²

    €79

    €0.79 per km²

  • 250 km²

    €189

    €0.76 per km²

  • 500 km²

    €349

    €0.70 per km²

  • 1,000 km²

    €690

    €0.69 per km²

Prices excl. VAT, paid once. For AI Segmentation Pro subscribers.

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AI SegmentationQGIS

Get your first polygons in QGIS

  1. 1Open QGIS
  2. 2Click Plugins in the top menu
  3. 3Click Manage and Install Plugins
  4. 4Search AI Segmentation by TerraLab
  5. 5Click Install Plugin

QGIS runs on a computer (Windows, macOS or Linux). Open this page there to install it.

The QGIS Plugins menu and the plugin manager, with the clicks to install AI Segmentation by TerraLab numbered 2 to 5

GIS tools

Need building outlines for a place without running a detection? Download them from OpenStreetMap and other open sources, free, in your browser.

Frequently asked questions

  • AI segmentation is computer vision that splits an image into regions and outlines each object with a pixel mask. AI Segmentation is a QGIS plugin that does this on satellite, aerial and drone imagery and turns every mask into a vector polygon. Point at one object and get its outline, or draw an area and let the AI find every instance inside it.
AI Segmentation

Draw your first area today

Install the plugin, sign in, and get polygons out of your own image in under five minutes.