The ability to conduct a successful UTC assessment is highly dependent on high resolution data. Most communities have high resolution building footprints, road polygons, parcels, public rights-of-way and target geographies (neighborhoods, census blocks, etc.) in their GIS database. Less common is the high resolution land cover that serves as the basis for most of the UTC assessment. Manual interpretation is too timely and costly. Fortunately advances in automated feature extraction make deriving land cover information from high resolution remotely sensed datasets cost effective.
View the UTC Data Requirements.