{"id":303062,"date":"2018-08-20T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=303062"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:57:00","slug":"fight-blight-using-arcgis","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-solutions\/local-government\/fight-blight-using-arcgis","title":{"rendered":"Fight Blight with ArcGIS and Artificial Intelligence"},"author":4661,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,37151,22841],"tags":[174212,238692,238712,35661,238702],"industry":[],"product":[36561,42661],"class_list":["post-303062","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-design-planning","category-local-government","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-blight","tag-custom-vision","tag-machine-learning","tag-redevelopment","product-arcgis-pro","product-arcgis-solutions"],"acf":{"short_description":"Fight blight with machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and the free Property Condition Survey configuration included with ArcGIS","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>In order for communities to fight blight, it is essential to know the condition of properties.\u00a0 Historically performing property condition surveys required inspectors to physically visit properties, fill out forms and take pictures. For many communities, this was a slow and expensive process.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/local-government\/help\/property-condition-survey\/\">Property Condition Survey<\/a> configuration available with ArcGIS significantly reduces the time and cost associated with performing property surveys by applying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/artificial-intelligence\/overview\">artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)<\/a> to street-level property photos and automatically calculate a blight probability for every property.\u00a0 \u00a0Once blight probabilities are calculated communities can take action against individual properties to fix blight or make policy changes to reverse neighborhoods that are blighted or trending toward blighted.\u00a0After performing an initial survey and establishing a baseline, communities can rapidly resurvey in the future to track blight trends over time.<\/p>\n<p>The Property Condition Survey configuration is free and fully supported for ArcGIS users.\u00a0 It leverages the artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities of Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/custom-vision-service\/\">Custom Vision Service<\/a>\u00a0to perform the image analysis.<\/p>\n<p>This video from the 2018 Esri User Conference to shows Property Condition Survey in action.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"217","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"ArcGIS Infused with AI &amp; ML Integration\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_CrA2sMPFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this post explores the 2 primary workflows of Property 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Custom Vision has two types of accounts, a free account that includes up to 10,000 predictions or if you need to analyze more properties, you can use a standard account at a $1.00 per 1000 prediction fee. \u00a0\u00a0Compared to the cost of manual classification, using Microsoft Custom Vision is a dramatic cost saving.\u00a0 For more information, see the Custom Vision <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/cognitive-services\/custom-vision-service\/\">pricing 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