Urban Construction Monitor

Construction drives demand for materials, logistics, housing and risk — but nobody has a current map of it. Permit registries lag by months and miss a large share of real activity; most European cities publish no usable registry at all. Monitoring a metro with commercial high-resolution imagery costs more than $100,000 per city per year.

Urban Construction Monitor closes that gap — globally, at a fraction of the cost. We detect construction sites from satellite imagery across the whole metro, estimate when each site started and whether it is still active, and verify detections against the building register.

In our verified tier, independent human audits in two previously unseen cities confirmed ~85–93% of top-100 sites as real construction.

Four Dutch metros are live today — Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag, Eindhoven — with a monthly history from January 2018. Any global metro can be added.

What makes the approach strong

• Universal across continents — built on a planet-wide satellite stack and validated in cities the models had never seen before — across the Netherlands, the UK, France and the US.

• Large-scale — every ~100 m of a whole metro area, every month — measured coverage, not a sample or survey.

• Historical coverage — back to Jan 2018; a new city arrives with ~8 years of history on day one

• Parcel-level — cadastre-snapped outlines matching the land units clients already work in

What you get

• Interactive monitor — city heat map to individual sites, monthly timeline, 3D view

• Verified site list — parcel-level polygons, estimated start, size and status

• Early-warning signals — detections that haven't reached any register yet

• Exports & API (licensed tiers) — GeoJSON for your GIS and models

Try it on sample cities

Two-week trial, full product — Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag and Eindhoven. Company email required.