Count the machines in every yard before you build the cold-call list.
Scrapyard Fleet Mapping reads the scrap and recycling yards in your territory from satellite or aerial imagery each quarter and counts the material handlers, wheeled loaders and crane-type units working there.
- GSD
- ≤0.5 m (VHR)
- Cadence
- Quarterly
- Source
- VHR satellite or aerial
- Bands
- RGB
The job today
Who gets the visit, and how you know
You work a territory with a prospect list, a dealer customer file and whatever you noticed from the road. Some yards you know well; others are a name and a pin on a map. To find out whether a yard runs one material handler or a whole row of them, somebody has to drive out, park at the gate and look over the fence. So the list gets ranked on instinct: the shredder yard by the highway gets the visit because everybody knows it, and the yard behind the rail siding, which may run more machines, waits.
It hurts when the territory plan is due and you are ranking a long list of names on memory, or when a manager asks why one yard is on the list and another isn't. A yard also changes between visits: it buys, sells, adds a second handler or closes. The list you built last quarter describes a market that has already moved.
A count from above doesn't replace the visit. It tells you where the machines are before you go, so the drive is spent on the yards that run the most of them, and you can open the conversation with a number you can point to.
What you get
What comes back each quarter
2.1
Per-yard machine count CSV
One row per yard, with the count of material handlers, wheeled loaders and crane-type units seen working there. Types are grouped by what they look like from above, not by maker. Opens in a spreadsheet.
2.2
Market roster GeoPackage
The yards in the territory you give us, each with its outline, so you see the market and not a handful of names. It is a GIS layer.
2.3
Yard ranking Sorted CSV
The same roster sorted by machine count, most machines first. It is a starting order for the cold-call list. You can re-sort it by fleet mix if you sell one type more than another.
2.4
Quarterly refresh Next pass
A new pass every quarter, so a yard that added a machine or closed shows up in the next count. Early access users shape what the refresh carries.
How it works
1
Market in
You send the region, or a list of yards if you already keep one. If you send a region, the yard list is built with you and you confirm it.
2
Imagery
We take the clearest very-high-resolution satellite or aerial pass of the quarter over those yards, at 0.5 m or finer.
3
Analysis
Machines are detected inside each yard footprint and grouped by visible type: material handler, wheeled loader, crane-type.
4
Delivery
You get the count roster with the type breakdown, and the ranking. The same yards are counted again next quarter.
Where it fits
Before the list is built
Run the ranking ahead of the territory plan. Put the yards with the most machines at the top, send your rep to those first, and leave the gate-side check for the yards where the count looks odd. The dealer's own installed-base list stays the record of what you sold. The count shows what is working in the yard today, whoever sold it.
Limits
L01
Type, not brand
A machine is counted by how it looks from above. The page does not name Sennebogen, Fuchs, Liebherr or any other maker, and a count never confirms whose machine it is.
L02
Resolution floor
At 0.5 m a pixel is half a metre across. A large handler spans several pixels, which is what the count relies on. Machines parked tight against each other, or tucked behind stacked material, can merge or hide, so crowded yards can be undercounted.
L03
Machines only
The count says nothing about the pile. Tonnage, stock volume and material type are outside this read.
L04
Quarterly, not live
A count describes the day of the pass. A machine that arrived the week after is in the next one. This is a target cadence, not a live feed.
L05
Clear sky
Optical imagery needs a clear day over the yard. A cloudy spell can mean a yard has no usable image for that pass.
L06
Coverage follows tasking
Whether a market can be counted depends on imagery being available there. We confirm coverage for your territory before anything starts.
Who it's for
For
- Territory sales reps at material-handling OEMs and dealers who sell into scrap and recycling.
- Area sales managers who set the territory plan and want a number behind each yard.
- Dealer sales operations staff who load the prospect list into a CRM.
Not for
- Reps who need the maker or model of each machine.
- Buyers who want tonnage, stock volume or commodity prices.
- Teams expecting a live feed of machine movements.
- Yard operators wanting an audit of their own fleet.
FAQ
Questions before early access
Does it name the machine brand?
No. Machines are grouped by visible type: material handler, wheeled loader, crane-type. A count never says who built the machine.
Does it count scrap piles?
No, machines only. Volume and material are not part of this read.
What happens in a small or crowded yard?
Tightly packed machines can merge at 0.5 m and get undercounted. Yards where that is likely are flagged so you know which numbers to treat as a minimum.
How is a yard defined?
A yard is one outline on the image, and machines inside it belong to it. If you send your own yard list, we use your outlines. Otherwise we draw them with you and you sign them off.
How current is quarterly?
The count is as of the pass. It is aligned to the quarter, not a live feed.
Does it cover every country?
Coverage depends on satellite and aerial imagery being available in that location. Name your territory and we tell you whether it can be counted.
Can I check it against what I know?
Yes. Pick a dozen yards you know well, keep your own counts to yourself, and compare when the roster arrives.
Will it load into our CRM?
It arrives as a CSV and a GeoPackage, so anything that takes a spreadsheet or a GIS layer can read it. We don't write into your CRM.
Who owns the results and the imagery?
Ownership and licence terms for the roster and the imagery are written into the early access agreement before anything is ordered.
How is early access priced?
The price depends on the size of your territory and how many yards are in it, and we scope it with you. The page gives no number.
Count your market.
Tell us the territory you cover and when your next territory plan is due. We will say whether the imagery calendar can meet it.