NANovaAxisGroup
Menu
Commercial Activity Intelligence$39

Parking Lot Occupancy Analysis

Parking lot occupancy is a valuable proxy for retail activity and consumer demand, widely used in financial analytics and commercial real estate.

Category

Commercial Activity Intelligence

Format

PDF Report

Delivery

Digital download after purchase

Price

$39

Summary

Parking lot occupancy is a valuable proxy for retail activity and consumer demand, widely used in financial analytics and commercial real estate. Most satellitebased approaches rely on proprietary very-high-resolution imagery (≤0.3 m), limiting scalability and reproducibility. We present a fully open-data framework for estimating retail parking lot occupancy using freely available NAIP aerial imagery (0.3 m resolution) and a YOLOv8 object detection model pre-trained on the COCO dataset. We analyzed 300 large retail parking lots (≥5000 m2) across 12 U.S. cities spanning seven Köppen climate zones.

What the report covers

Parking lot occupancy is a valuable proxy for retail activity and consumer demand, widely used in financial analytics and commercial real estate.
Most satellitebased approaches rely on proprietary very-high-resolution imagery (≤0.3 m), limiting scalability and reproducibility.
We present a fully open-data framework for estimating retail parking lot occupancy using freely available NAIP aerial imagery (0.3 m resolution) and a YOLOv8 object detection model pre-trained on the COCO dataset.

Why it matters

Commercial activity proxies derived from satellite imagery can support retail, real estate, and location-based demand analysis.

Intended sectors and users

RetailCommercial real estateInvestment researchMarket intelligence

Methodology framing

The report is framed around NAIP, YOLOv8, using the methods described in the source abstract and paper title.

Preview figures

Fig01 Study Area Map preview from parking lot occupancy analysis
Fig01 Study Area Map preview from parking lot occupancy analysis
Fig06 Occupancy By City preview from parking lot occupancy analysis
Fig06 Occupancy By City preview from parking lot occupancy analysis

Applications and use cases

Parking occupancy studies
Demand proxy analysis
Site activity screening

Related reports

Need adjacent or bespoke work?

The report library is also intended to help start more focused consulting discussions where the exact geography, asset base, or monitoring need is more specific than a standard report can cover.

Discuss a Project