The Benefits of Satellite Image Analysis
Satellite analysis provides CI
professionals with the technology required to identify facility changes, traffic
pattern changes, and plant-specific material flows. This translates into
information on:
- new construction indicating increased
production
- estimates of construction completion and impacts of new production on the existing product market
- production changes and indications of the possible introduction of new technology
- shift additions indicating increased production
- shift reductions indicating decreased production and sudden excess capacity
- plant layouts and production flows for shadow analysis
Satellite analysis also provides CI professionals with the ability to monitor:
- facility energy consumption
- energy outputs indicating factory production output estimates
- trucking, shipping, and railroad activities detailing material deliveries and product distribution
- power lines, oil wells, and remote locations leading to data on expansion, utilization, and general facility
activities
- communication network installation and expansion activities
- precision agriculture processes
- hazardous material detection and removal compliance activities
- potential locations for a competitor's commercial ventures
- urban sprawl to evaluate your own commercial opportunities
- an infinite number of national and international sites
Given the global
markets businesses must strive in to succeed internationally in the new millennium,
satellite analysis also eliminates the costly and high threat risks of sending
employees into foreign countries with ever changing and unfriendly legal
conditions.