RS Metrics
Satellite & Geospatial alternative data provider · 5 listed datasets
Datasets from RS Metrics (5)
RS Metrics is a Stamford, Connecticut-based geospatial data company that provides asset-level environmental, climate, and physical risk metrics derived from satellite imagery and geolocation data. Its flagship offering, ESGSignals, serves both corporate risk management and financial market applications.[1]
The company grew out of the alternative data movement, with early historical datasets that tracked retail parking-lot traffic, electric vehicle production, and global metal production, before pivoting toward climate and physical risk analytics for banks, insurers, and system integrators.[1]
What It Does
RS Metrics converts satellite imagery and geospatial data into objective, verified, asset-level indicators used for business management, performance analysis, and investment decisions. It emphasizes real-time, asset-specific measurement rather than country- or company-level aggregates.[1]
Products
Current products include ESGSignals, delivering environmental, climate, and physical risk metrics at asset level; AssetTracker, a geolocation platform mapping corporate assets such as factories and warehouses to asset type, sector, and country; and Custom Event-Driven Monitoring for remote supervision of specific events or projects.[1]
Historical datasets listed on its site include TrafficSignals, which recorded vehicle counts in parking lots at over sixty-five thousand US retail stores; EVTracker, which tracked global EV manufacturers and their production levels; and MetalSignals, which covered production of aluminum, copper, zinc, and iron ore at smelters and other company sites.[1]
Data and Methodology
The company works with a broad ecosystem of imagery and technology partners displayed on its website, including Planet, Satellogic, ICEYE, GHGSat, Maxar, SkyWatch, e-GEOS, Telespazio, NASA, ESA, and NOAA, alongside cloud and data platforms such as Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, and Snowflake.[1]
ESGSignals is offered as a modular, ready-to-deploy framework and is distributed as a SaaS product on Google Cloud Marketplace; the company has published partnerships with Google Cloud Platform, Cognizant, and alignment with the TNFD nature-related disclosure framework.[1]
Buyers and Use Cases
Target buyers span financial institutions using ESGSignals for portfolio climate-risk measurement, corporates assessing physical risk to their assets, and system integrators embedding the data into client solutions, per a testimonial from advisor Tan Moorthy, former Executive Vice President at Infosys.[1]
The site also lists relationships with market-data and research institutions including Bloomberg, Nasdaq, FactSet, McKinsey, Neudata, Eagle Alpha, Columbia University, Princeton, and Harvard, reflecting its dual position in alternative data distribution and academic research.[1]
History
RS Metrics is headquartered at 700 Canal St. in Stamford, Connecticut. In September 2024 it announced expansion into Europe led by Magnus Billing, former CEO of Nasdaq Nordics and of pension fund Alecta, who joined as senior advisor; other advisors include Tan Moorthy and former FASB chairman Robert Herz, who sits on its advisory board.[1][2]
More datasets from RS Metrics
RS Metrics lists 5 datasets on this encyclopedia. The most representative listings:
More about Satellite & Geospatial
Satellite & Geospatial is one of the signal families covered by The Alternative Data Encyclopedia, with 24 providers and 147 datasets listed in the register. For how the signal is generated, its caveats and the compliance considerations, and the full provider list, see the category article.
Further reading
- What is alternative data?Alternative data in investment research: what the term covers, how it differs from data format, and why provenance, timing, access and validation matter.
- Satellite and geospatial signalsCounting the world from orbit: optical imagery, SAR, aerial and drone data as investment signals, what each can see, revisit-tradeoffs, and how raw pixels become tradeable indicators.
- Free alternative data sourcesThe practical list of free alternative-data sources for investors: public filings, official statistics, satellite and earth observation, on-chain data, web archives and open registries, what each covers, what it costs in engineering effort, and where free data falls short.
- Alternative data for investingHow funds turn alternative data into an investment edge: signal families, evaluation, backtesting, compliance and the build-vs-buy decision, mapped to the datasets and providers indexed on this encyclopedia.