TDWI: Interview with VP of Underwriting, Randy Ishikawa
High-resolution overhead images, captured at the same time using a patented technology, can be analyzed and used to determine changes in property — something that is highly useful to both the government and private corporations. The merger of EagleView Technologies and Pictometry International in 2013 created a company able to provide just such a scalable and efficient analytical solution. Patented technology from Pictometry allows capturing images of objects on the ground from the air; software from EagleView then analyzes and compares it.
In this interview, Randall Ishikawa, VP of underwriting for EagleView, explains how the technology works, and how business intelligence can be used for change analysis of the images. Ishikawa, who has an extensive background in the property and casualty insurance industry, is responsible for EagleView’s underwriting solutions, including risk visualization solutions.
BI This Week: What exactly is Pictometry?
Randall Ishikawa: Pictometry Intelligent Imagery is a patented technology that captures images of objects on the ground from the air, producing imagery showing 45-degree angles of the sides and top of buildings and land-based locations. Pictometry International Corp. invented the technology behind “aerial oblique image capture,” which is the ability to capture objects on land at unique angles using low-flying aircraft.
The merger of EagleView Technologies and Pictometry International in 2013 created a company with technological solutions in the GIS, measurement, and analytical space. The combined company has more than 74 patented technologies to provide scalable, efficient, and accurate analytical solutions; it now goes by the corporate name of EagleView Technologies. Pictometry Intelligent Imagery is the technology behind the imagery and visualization tools.
