Unseenlabs

Unseenlabs — Passive space-based radio-frequency detection and geolocation of vessels — emissions from onboard communications and navigation equipment captured by a low-Earth-orbit smallsat constellation and converted into geolocation coordinates, timestamps, and RF parameters. The product is a vessel position derived without AIS or any onboard reporting: multiband RF collection in a single pass, all-weather, 24/7, global and beyond coastal-range limits, at kilometre-level geolocation accuracy with low latency. Ships are detected and characterised from their own emissions, so the dataset cove…

Unseenlabs offers (Alternative, Geospatial, Supply Chain, Sentiment) — Request further research — no detection or archive count is disclosed. Scale is bounded by constellation size and revisit: a growing smallsat fleet collecting multiband RF on every pass gives global persistent ocean coverage, so order 10^8-10^9 geolocated RF detections across several years is plausible, but the figure is unverified and accessible archive depth depends on the subscription tier rather than being a fixed dataset size..

Maritime domain awareness and surveillance for defense, intelligence, and state maritime agencies; fisheries enforcement; sanctions and dark-fleet detection; port and chokepoint monitoring; search and rescue where vessels are not transmitting. As training data: the AIS-independent detection set is the reference label for dark-vessel detectors and for validating AIS-based models; RF parameters support emitter fingerprinting and vessel-class characterisation models; Tip & Cue pairs supervise cross-sensor tasking policies — learning when an RF contact is worth cueing a SAR or optical pass, which is a valuable and scarce labelled decision series.

The data is with 7 years of history.

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