2008 Aerial Imagery

Property Appraiser's Office Offers New Photography For Website
Issued April 28, 2008

PRESS RELEASE

Property Appraiser Jim Ford has released new high resolution oblique digital aerial photography on the office website. This product allows the user to view a parcel and improvements from 4 different viewpoints, such as the building shown below on the main page of the website at www.brevardpropertyappraiser.com

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Internally this product allows staff to view a property after having made a physical front view inspection at street level and then confirm existing structural components such as garages, patios, screen porches, pools and screen enclosures from side and rear viewpoints. The product allows use of additional tools such as zooming, distance (structural) measuring, area calculations, height calculations and GPS coordinates for each property.

With two years of photography now in use, the Property Appraiser’s office is able to utilize a Pictometry International Corporation software feature known as “change analysis” to find improvements that are different from the prior year such as the property below:

Picture from 2007
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Picture from 2008
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Ford said that the use of this advance technology allows his office to honor taxpayers privacy where fences are present, or where “no trespassing” signs are posted while at the same time allowing the Property Appraiser's Office to meet its’ legal requirement to inspect property and assess all improvements that influence market value.

He further said physical visits are followed up where necessary and the use of this technology has saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on the reduced number of site visitations required.

Jim Ford, CFA
Brevard County Property Appraiser