09/21/2026
Check out our new Aerial photos on our website. Shown is the Polk County Historical Courthouse- 2023 verses 2026 photos. Zoom in, it’s like night and day. These photos will greatly benefit both our office and our business community.
Here’s just a few of the governmental and business uses:
1. Property appraisal and assessment — identifying new structures, additions, pools, sheds, docks, agricultural improvements, demolition, and changes that may not yet appear in property records.
2. Real estate — property marketing, development-site analysis, neighborhood comparisons, boundary visualization, and commercial-property due diligence.
3. Insurance — roof-condition screening, building measurements, underwriting, catastrophe assessment, claims verification, and identifying property changes.
4. Roofing contractors — measuring roof dimensions, estimating pitch and complexity, preparing estimates, and identifying likely repair areas before visiting the property.
5. Construction — site planning, progress monitoring, earthwork verification, material inventories, documentation, and before-and-after comparisons.
6. Engineering and surveying — preliminary site analysis, measurements, drainage evaluation, infrastructure planning, topographic work, and project design.
7. Utilities — locating and monitoring power lines, substations, poles, pipelines, water systems, sewer infrastructure, rights-of-way, and vegetation encroachment.
8. Telecommunications — planning tower locations, fiber routes, wireless coverage infrastructure, and right-of-way access.
9. Agriculture — crop monitoring, irrigation planning, drainage, field boundaries, grove/tree inventories, livestock facilities, and detecting stressed vegetation.
10. Forestry — timber inventories, canopy analysis, logging planning, storm damage, fire risk, and monitoring changes in forest acreage.
11. Solar companies — determining usable roof area, shading, roof orientation, and preliminary solar-panel layouts.
12. Landscaping and lawn services — measuring lawns and landscaped areas remotely so contractors can prepare estimates without initially visiting the property.
13. Pest-control companies — examining building footprints, rooflines, vegetation, water features, and other property characteristics useful in preparing service estimates.
14. Pool companies — identifying suitable locations, measuring yards, evaluating access, and producing preliminary pool layouts.
15. Fence companies — estimating fence lengths and preparing preliminary quotes from parcel and imagery measurements.
16. Paving and concrete contractors — measuring parking lots, driveways, sidewalks, roofs and other surfaces for estimating materials and labor.
17. Commercial property management — monitoring roofs, parking lots, landscaping, stormwater facilities and changes across large portfolios.
18. Banks and mortgage companies — collateral review, property verification, construction-loan monitoring, and identifying significant changes to secured property.
19. Environmental consulting — wetlands, surface water, erosion, land clearing, habitat changes, contamination-site monitoring and regulatory work.
20. Mining, quarries and landfills — measuring stockpiles, excavation areas, fill areas and changes in site conditions.
21. Transportation — road planning, traffic studies, intersection analysis, pavement inventories, railroad corridors and airport planning.
22. Emergency management — hurricane, tornado, wildfire and flood damage assessment and comparing pre-disaster imagery with post-disaster conditions.
23. Law enforcement/public safety — incident planning, search-and-rescue, event planning and understanding property layouts.
24. Local government planning and zoning — development review, zoning compliance, code enforcement, annexation, comprehensive planning and land-use-change detection.
25. Stormwater and flood management — identifying drainage patterns, impervious surfaces, retention ponds, canals and areas susceptible to flooding.
26. HOAs and community associations — common-area management, roof and pavement planning, landscaping inventories and documenting community changes.
27. Developers and home builders — land acquisition, subdivision planning, feasibility studies, construction monitoring and marketing.
28. Legal services — boundary disputes, easements, encroachments, historical land-use changes, accident reconstruction and litigation exhibits.
29. Marinas and waterfront businesses — dock inventories, shoreline conditions, seawalls, boat-slip measurements and waterfront development.
30. GIS/data companies — extracting building footprints, road networks, impervious surfaces, vegetation, pools and other features to create commercial datasets.
