Leading indicators show a mix of optimistic growth potential and cautious recessionary signals. Unsupervised and supervised satellite activity indices provide predictive insights for the economies of the U.S., Germany, and China.
The steel industry is experiencing fluctuations influenced by global economic conditions, supply disruptions, and evolving demand patterns. Spaceknow indices play a crucial role in detecting significant shifts in the steel industry’s performance before official announcements are made.
The German Downturn: Analyzing Export Performance and Beyond (SNN#26)
Economic Products
Spaceknow’s indices for Germany show a stumbling economy. These indices provide valuable insights and data for analyzing economic trends and performance, including manufacturing output, autos, services, retail sales, trade, new orders, and construction.
SpaceKnow’s data can be used to track attendance in theme parks. Here we look at Disney’s parks in Florida to see if there has been any impact from the current conflicts between the company and the state government.
SpaceKnow indices can track production and inventory rises for electric vehicle companies such as Tesla. Look at the final graph and table to understand how SpaceKnow uses its data to understand inventory build-ups.
India’s Economic Landscape Unveiled: The Value of Satellite Data (SNN#22)
Economic Products
Discover Spaceknow’s India package that contains various indices monitoring the Indian economy and can help customers analyze and predict Indian macroeconomic indicators.
Spaceknow’s Truck Stop dataset provides insights into the economic activity and logistics lines of the Russian army in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine, as well as the impact of Western sanctions on different regions, highlighting the importance of understanding economic nuances in a complex geopolitical environment.
Unlocking the Power of Publicly Available SAR Data for Tropical Forest Conservation
Environment & Utilities
Satellite intelligence plays an integral part in monitoring forests. Academics and businesses are advancing various satellite analytics solutions that help in forestry management, detection of illegal logging, tracking carbon credits, or evaluating environmental changes in specific regions
Using SpaceKnow data to track US construction activity (SNN#18)
Construction & Real Estate
SpaceKnow indices can be used to track US Building Permits, Housing Starts, and non-residential construction spending. Our indices recovered slightly in Q4 2022, suggesting that the outlook for the US construction industry is improving from weak conditions last year.
As central banks raise rates around the globe to ward off inflation, risks of a recession are rising. Business owners and consumers alike want to know if a recession is coming, when it will arrive, and what the magnitude and length of the slowdown will be. SpaceKnow data monitors real-time activity on the ground in […]
How did China’s provinces bounce back following the lockdowns? (SNN#12)
Economic Products
SpaceKnow monitors several industries in China from space. For this SNN, we study those industries by province. Our analysis suggests that full lockdowns have an immediate impact on consumer spending.
SpaceKnow’s indices suggest that so far, Amazon’s activity heading into the all-important Black Friday and Christmas spending season has been lackluster.
How will the German economy react to energy rationing policies? A view from 🛰 (SNN#7)
Economic Products
September 14, 2022 Germany is closer to energy rationing as Europe heads into the winter season. Gazprom, the majority state-owned Russian gas company, did not restart gas flows from its main pipeline after the recent maintenance period. During the summer, demand for gas was seasonally lower due to the hot weather allowing storage to build […]
What’s happening in the Russian cement industry? SNN#6
Construction & Real Estate
Satellite analysis on the Russian cement industry. As Russia stops sharing public cement production data, SpaceKnow is able to close the data gap with its nowcasting activity indices.
China’s economy will have its slowest pace of growth in years, due to a deflating property bubble, zero-tolerance Covid lockdowns and now, a heat wave. SpaceKnow tracks physical locations daily to provide actionable information.
Welcome back to the SpaceKnow Nowcasting Newsletter (SNN) where we deliver insights derived from satellite activity datasets. Let’s jump into what we’re seeing at Nord Stream 1. Portovoya Nord Stream 1 Compressor Station shows declining heat activity since Russian gas pipeline flows were limited in June 2022. The neighboring LNG Export Terminal has been flaring […]
Ship Detection from Space: Why is SAR data analysis so important for maritime ecosystems?
Economic Products
SpaceKnow recently started a project with ESA to improve the analysis of high resolution SAR imagery for ship detection. Discover the satellites that can see through clouds and at night to make sea activity more transparent and safer.
Persistent monitoring of military activity: Russia-Ukraine border use case
Defense & Intelligence
Recent developments in the geopolitical arena surrounding Ukraine, Russia, and NATO have drawn the attention of intelligence analysts and companies providing assessments of the latest Russian military movements in the context of a potential escalation. Because the conflict has been going on since 2014, there are many well-known locations used as staging areas for the […]