Movement intelligence using satellite imagery

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.