CONNECT™ Your County Agency!

Did you know that our CONNECT™ platform provides imagery access that can be shared across multiple departments? Here are some ways that departments across your jurisdiction can benefit from access to the high-resolution aerial imagery and analytical tools offered through CONNECT.  

ASSESSORS AND APPRAISERS

• Time and gas savings in not having to conduct field inspections, particularly for rural or hard-to-access properties
• Formal and informal appeals
• Preview properties for additions, new construction and permits prior to a field visit
• Investigate land use classifications
• Measure square footage, area, heights, lengths, widths, distances, angles and elevations of buildings, properties and roads
• Achieve ROI and gain new revenues

COMMUNITY PLANNING, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT

• Inspect proximity of new developments to housing, schools and roadways
• Measure angles, area, distance, height and width of any structure or property
• View parcels from multiple directions to identify modifications to properties not recognizable from traditional drive-by photos or orthogonal images
• Examine environmentally sensitive areas

LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Identify staging and surveillance areas
• Search, raid and seizure planning
• Preemptive and concurrent tactical planning
• Pictorial references for court presentations and search warrant applications

FIRE DEPARTMENTS

• Pre-plan responses for major structures and facilities
• Zoom in and inspect structural compositions, roof layout and access points
• Access structural inventories such as sprinklers and hazardous material lists
• Send coordinates of house numbering systems to MDTS in vehicles en route

9-1-1

• Quickly view a location using a Lat/Lon coordinate or physical address
• View alternate traffic routes to incidents
• Provide remote guidance on location of electrical wires and other obstacles that might impair equipment or helicopter access; clearly see all that otherwise might not be seen at night
• Monitor foot chases through visual clues and provide assistance to officers on the scene
• Plan for evacuation and traffic control

ENGINEERING, TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITIES

• Import data from GIS and other sources to assess location of water mains, electrical distribution systems, and zoning information
• Calculate acreage or square footage
• Review properties for planning rights of way and easements
• View neighborhoods from growth and traffic flow analysis

  Access Pictometry imagery though CONNECTExplorer™ or on your mobile device through CONNECTMobile ™, available through Google Play or the iTunes store. Want to learn more? Head to our website.