China’s Expanded Influence China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a multi-trillion-dollar mega-construction project aimed to physically link Beijing to 100 countries globally and facilitate trade with Beijing. The initiative has lost support due to controversies ranging from poor project viability analyses to concerns of poorer countries facing unsustainable debts. Enter COVID The global pandemic…

As global oil producers race to slash production over the coronavirus pandemic, questions are being raised on whether the cuts will be enough and how many more days of supply storage there are in the tanks if oversupply continues. Orbital Insight has a partial answer to that: Our real-time tracking…

In a multi-part series, Orbital Insight brings you on-the-ground truth on how businesses, industries, and markets across the world are impacted by the coronavirus contagion. China’s economy was devastated by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the first two months of the year, according to retail sales/industrial output/fixed asset investments data…

In a multi-part series, Orbital Insight brings you on-the-ground truth on how businesses, industries, and markets across the world are impacted by the coronavirus contagion. Amid their watch on oil storage tanks, traffic at malls and vessels at ports, satellites in orbit and IoT data have also begun focusing on…

In a multi-part series, Orbital Insight brings you on-the-ground truth on how businesses, industries and markets across the world are impacted by the coronavirus contagion. Orbital Insight’s GO Will Show as More Flights Disappear… and Return Thousands of flights that used to crisscross the airspace in China and its region have vanished in a matter of weeks, leaving airports isolated as…

In a multi-part series, Orbital Insight brings you on-the-ground truth on how businesses, industries, and markets across the world are impacted by the coronavirus contagion. Orbital Insight GO Shows Chinese Oil Build Less than What Media Would Suggest Since we woke up to the sheer disruption of life and travel in China from the coronavirus, the one question that remains unsatisfactorily answered is…

Even by today’s efficient refinery standards, this project was sensational. Within six months of its launch, China’s Hengyi Petrochemical…

Once a year at Orbital Insight, we have an internal hackathon so everyone in the company has a chance to showcase the possibilities of geospatial analytics, including new technical improvements and ideas that inspire our product roadmap. …

Azavea and Orbital Insight are proud to announce the release of a map that shows the difference between two building footprint datasets that cover all of Cambodia: (1) building footprints from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and (2) building footprints generated by Orbital Insight’s artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) analysis of satellite imagery. View…