Movement intelligence using satellite imagery
A system for incorporating geographical data into a map-related system, adding objects being tracked while moving within a specific geographic area and automatically analyzing their movement characteristics; wherein the tracking is done by visual means from a sky-borne platform.
1. A method for recognizing and characterizing movement of objects on the Earth's surface using satellite imagery, comprising:
receiving, at a geospatial analytics platform comprising a plurality of processors, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operating on at least one of the processors, at least a set of raster data from a satellite imaging system;
determining movement of an object on the Earth, using at least some of the programming instructions and the raster data by computing differences in each of a plurality of still satellite images extracted from the raster data;
generating a movement layer associated with a specific satellite image of a region of interest on the Earth's surface; and
displaying the specific satellite image with the movement layer superimposed thereupon.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein raster data is received from a raster database.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein raster data is received from a vector database.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein raster data is received from a third-party map service.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of identifying a tracked object in the movement layer.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein movement patterns of the tracked object are further analyzed to determine whether the tracked object is a vehicle.