Nearmap offers 'health check' for roofs

Nearmap offers ‘health check’ for roofs

17 October 2022

Nearmap has announced an expansion of its aerial capture program and says the first product available to customers will be automated ‘health check’ roof condition assessments, with fire and flood risk assessments to be available to customers over the next year.

Nearmap’s automated mapping offers more than 500 facts per address, with AI applied to aerial images of weather catastrophes and natural disasters, allowing insurer customers to rapidly evaluate property conditions and risks.

Founded in Australia in 2007, Nearmap captures images in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand several times each year. It says customers will now be able to access over 500,000 square kms of coverage annually in Australia, with 82 new regional areas for the first time able to conduct virtual site visits.

AI Systems Senior Director Michael Bewley says Nearmap’s data includes proprietary large-scale, high-resolution maps of environments and terrain features that have “a strong impact on the way floods and fires move through the landscape”.

“This will help organisations to better predict, prepare, and respond to the evolving challenges of a changing climate,” he said.

“As weather changes, Nearmap is supporting organisations by applying our world-leading machine-learning capability to our extensive library of historical and current location data to transform the management of property risk.”