September 2024

Applications of GeoAI in an Appraisal Setting

12pm - 1pm, Wed, September 25, 2024

In 2019 the Shawnee County Appraiser's Office spent $11,000 to an outside company to do change detection on properties in the county returning a list of items that while advertised as 'multi-millions of dollars' had to be crosschecked by hand by the Appraisers team and ended with a net property list of unpermitted property to the tune of roughly $90,000 in tax revenue. This was initially an attempt to do something similar with similar levels man-hours but using self-learning tools to do the heavy lifting in finding the properties while only needing to spend a third, and subsequently a tenth, of the price to do the same. The project as a whole has returned results that suggest a number of intriguing avenues of attack going far beyond the original concept.

Presenter: Andrew Schappert, Shawnee County