Using information provided by the realty company, CRSP created a detailed digital mapping system of the Diamondhead, Mississippi, area, showing numerous characteristics of developed and undeveloped land. The mapping system created allows realtors to present various aspects of a property to buyers without ever leaving the office. The pictures or imagery acquired from these systems are then combined with related information to produce maps, track weather events, measure terrain, monitor agriculture and urban infrastructure, and create databases. For the realty project, CRSP collected remotely sensed imagery over Diamondheadprimarily using airborne sensorsand then entered the imagery into a computer mapping system. The imagery was then referenced to the geographic location in Diamondhead and interpreted by CRSP to identify specific geographic information, such as potential flood areas, percent of shade on the lot, setback distance between the street and the house, visibility from a particular house, areas of interest in a neighborhood, and sites of houses, stores, developments and retail areas.
People looking for real estate become geographers.
According to Cliff Holle, another GIS specialist with Lockheed Martin, the information products this technology offers allows the industry to provide more services to clients. Holle stated that the remote sensing informa tion obtained during this project has many other applications outside of the real estate industry. The CRSP is an element of the Office of Mission to Planet Earth .