Blog Archive - SpaceKnow

Despite the EU sanctions exempting Russian LNG exports, restrictions on LNG and drilling technology exports to Russia remain in place. This has spurred Russia’s efforts to bolster its LNG capabilities, aiming for independence from Western technology and open the global LNG market for massive volumes of Russian natural gas. Imagery intelligence indicates that Russia has […]

SpaceKnow’s proactive monitoring alerted the world to the ominous Russian military buildup along Ukraine’s borders prior to the onset of the invasion. Now, as the conflict enters its third year, our focus turns to the Luninets Air Base—one of the locations from which Russian forces launched their invasion. Through meticulous analysis spanning the two-year duration […]

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.

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.

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. 

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

SpaceKnow investigates Chinese retail sales and Chinese housing price trends using China Retail Parking Index and China Cement Storage Index.

SpaceKnow France Nowcasting Insights help our customers track economic growth in important sectors like consumer spending, housing, and exports.

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.

SpaceKnow’s Chinese Automotive dataset provides an in-depth look at the leading automotive market of the world.

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 […]

12 Charts take you back in time and around the world. Each with a unique story to tell, derived from our satellite activity datasets.

SpaceKnow has several indices to observe activity and demand at US ports. These indices lead us to believe that the congestion at ports is easing. 

SpaceKnow joins the discussion on this year’s record Black Friday using our family of CFI indices for 4000+ logistics centers in the US.

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.

Satellite data insights on what we’re seeing in our Germany and Italy satellite activity data indices.

Discover how satellite nowcasting indices help observe congestion on Russian roads and airports as Russians head for the borders.

Discover SpaceKnow’s analysis of activity seen from space for FedEx

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Together with our partners at ESA, the GEMSTONE project was undertaken to expand the commercial nowcasting capabilities of SpaceKnow.

SpaceKnow’s data derived from satellite imagery provides an exclusive early perspective on current economic trends in China.

SpaceKnow’s data derived from satellite imagery provides an exclusive early perspective on current economic trends in Germany.

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 […]

In the ever-evolving landscape of construction, ensuring quality, accuracy, and timely progress is paramount. This is where SpaceKnow Guardian construction monitoring services come into play. Our platform provides comprehensive oversight of all aspects of construction, identified during your due diligence phase, and offers detailed reports, updates, and advice to give you complete project control. The […]

SpaceKnow and IMALBES are pleased to announce a new partnership aimed at advancing forest measurement and monitoring. The IMALBES project (Integrated Modeling and Assessment of Landscape, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services), a collaborative effort led by researchers from the Department of Geoinformatics at Palacký University in Olomouc and Department of Ecosystem functional analysis of the Landscape […]

Recently, Dubai was hit by extraordinary floods. Approximately 25 centimeters of rainfall, roughly double the annual average of the UAE, submerged a significant portion of the city’s outdoor infrastructure within a single day. While there was awareness of an impending storm, its intensity caught many off guard. The extent of the disruption exceeded all expectations. […]