David Milgram, principal investigator for the BADGER project, believes that coordinating imagery with ground data is a key to growing this type of data application. Matched satellite imagery and facility maps help utilities locate equipment damaged by storms or earthquakes. Real estate companies, insurers, and homeowners can reach decisions more quickly when viewing imagery overlaid with legal property lines.
Local businesses use the system to identify specific groups of homeowners for targeted marketing campaigns (for example, those with swimming pools or shake roofs). The BADGER team is working to assist entrepreneurs in building these and other applications. They can assist you, too.
The BADGER system is extremely useful for a number of other applications, including regional emergency planning and operations, environmental impact reporting, hazardous materials management, utility planning and maintenance, traffic congestion management, commercial marketing, and land development. Can you think of others?
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