AI for Earth Land Cover Mapping API

API for classifying pixels in aerial images into natural or human-made terrain types.

/landcover/classify

This operation classifies the land cover for a given region based on the provided NAIP image. The provided image must be a .tiff file with 4 bands representing the red, green, blue and near-infrared value of the pixel. It should also be square, less than 4MB in size, and at 1m resolution.

A successful classification will return an image file corresponding to the land cover of the provided image. The following labels are possible with the corresponding color labels:

No Data - black (0, 0 ,0)
Water - blue (0, 0, 255)
Trees - dark green (0, 128, 0)
Herbaceous - light green (128, 255, 128)
Barren/Impervious - brown (128, 96, 96)

Request

Request URL

https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify[?type]

Request parameters

type (optional)

string
File type of the returned image. Supported values are:
- tiff (default)
- jpeg

Request headers

Content-Type

string

Media type of the request body. Currently only image/tiff is supported.
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

string

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

A single satellite image to classify. Currently the image must be a tiff file containing red, green, blue and near-infrared bands. For best results this image should come from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) dataset.

Responses

200 OK

The response body will contain an image file with the land cover labels. The image will be colored corresponding the the following labels:

No Data - black (0, 0 ,0)
Water - blue (0, 0, 255)
Trees - dark green (0, 128, 0)
Herbaceous - light green (128, 255, 128)
Barren/Impervious - brown (128, 96, 96)

The size of the output image will be the same as a minus a 64 pixel border around the image. For example, if the input image is 256 pixels by 256 pixels the output image will be 128 pixels by 128 pixels.

[binary image data]

[binary image data]

400 Bad Request

Possible Errors:

InvalidImageFormat
Input data is not a valid image.
InvalidImageSize
Input image is too large or too small.
ImageNotSquare
Input image is not square

Representations

application/json

415 Unsupported Media Type

Unsupported media type in the request body. Currently only image/tiff is supported

413 Request Entity Too Large

Representations

text/html

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X POST "https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify?type=tiff"
-H "Content-Type: "
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["type"] = "tiff";
            var uri = "https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify?" + queryString;

            HttpResponseMessage response;

            // Request body
            byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");

            using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
            {
               content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
               response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
            }

        }
    }
}

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify");

            builder.setParameter("type", "tiff");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "");
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "type": "tiff",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "POST",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"type=tiff",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Content-Type' => '',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'type' => 'tiff',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': '',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'type': 'tiff',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('aiforearth.azure-api.net')
    conn.request("POST", "/v0.1/landcover/classify?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': '',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'type': 'tiff',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('aiforearth.azure-api.net')
    conn.request("POST", "/v0.1/landcover/classify?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://aiforearth.azure-api.net/v0.1/landcover/classify')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'type' => 'tiff'
})
if query.length > 0
  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
  else
    uri.query = query
  end
end

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = ''
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body