Movement intelligence using satellite imagery

A system for recognizing and characterizing movement of objects on the Earth's surface using satellite imagery, comprising:

• a geospatial data analytics platform comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory of, and operating on at least one processor of, a computing device, wherein the plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the at least one processor, cause the geospatial platform to:
• receive at least a set of raster data from at least one of a plurality of data sources;
• determine 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;
• generate a movement layer associated with a specific satellite image of a region of interest on the Earth's surface;
• and
• display the specific satellite image with the movement layer superimposed thereupon.