Patent ID: 8229769

Claim:
A method of processing overhead imagery, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, one or more overhead images, the one or more overhead images containing a plurality of properties, each of which may carry a property insurance underwritten by an insurance company; correlating, by the processor, the one or more overhead images with one or more land maps; parsing, by the processor, the plurality of properties into collections of individual properties, the collections of individual properties comprising a subset of the plurality of properties, wherein each of the individual properties carry property insurance underwritten by a single insurance company; determining, by the processor, an assessed value for each of the individual properties in the subset of the plurality of properties; and aggregating, by the processor, the assessed values for the subset of the plurality of properties; deriving, by the processor, a risk of catastrophic loss for the single insurance company using the processor, wherein the risk of catastrophic loss uses the aggregated assessed value; receiving a forecast of a footprint of a weather event; reducing, by the processor, the subset of the plurality of properties to only properties within the footprint; deriving, by the processor, a potential risk for the single insurance company; determining, by the processor, an amount of securities in the single insurance company owned by an investor; and selling a portion of the amount of securities using the potential risk.