This paper examines data from different sensors regarding their potential for an automatic change detection approach. After a brief discussion of the used approach, results are shown on examples of data from several sensors: scanned analogue aerial photos, an airborne digital line scanner (DPA camera system), the Indian satellite IRS-1C, the MOMS-2P camera and from a laser scanning system as an additional information source. The GIS data which have to be updated are from the German national topographic cartographic database (ATKIS) and were captured in the scale of 1 : 25,000.