Asbestos project

Finding every roof in Belgium that may contain asbestos.

Category
Software · Data processing
Date
Jul 2023 – May 2024
  • ≈260 000

    roofs analysed

  • 3

    image sources: oblique, street-level, orthophoto

  • 11 mo

    from specification to delivery

Orthophoto of a street block in Belgium with roof outlines, each labelled Ja (yes) or Nee (no) for the assessment.
FIG. 01 · Asbestos projectJul 2023 – May 2024

+01 · Challenge

Identify all roofs across Belgium that could potentially contain asbestos — a country-wide assessment from imagery.

+02 · Approach

  1. 01Wrote the project specifications
  2. 02Designed the assessment workflow
  3. 03Developed QGIS plugins for oblique, street-level and orthophoto imagery
  4. 04Assessed roofs
  5. 05Delivered the data

+03 · Result

Approximately 260 000 roofs assessed and delivered, using custom QGIS tooling built for the project.

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