CoStar Group’s pilots, Mark Beauchamp, left, Ben Hursa, right, aerial research photographer Amber Surrency, are shown in front of company’s airplane at Million Air Richmond terminal on Monday, June 12, 2017. CoStar Group, the Washington, D.C.-based data company for the commercial real estate industry (that has opened its national research center in downtown Richmond) has a variety of ways of collecting data on the commercial real estate industry.

An aerial camera screen shows downtown Richmond as CoStar Group airplane flies.

TOP: An aerial camera screen shows downtown Richmond as CoStar Group’s airplane flies over the area. ABOVE: An aerial photography camera is installed on the bottom of CoStar Group’s airplane.

CoStar Group’s aerial research photographer Amber Surrency operates an aerial camera to record video clips as pilots fly an airplane over Richmond area on Monday, June 12, 2017. Aerial real estate recognizance: CoStar uses a plane to gather data on properties | Local | richmond.com