Defense, Intelligence, Security
> Observe to act with precision
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Defense and security applications have come to rely on satellite imagery as a crucial source of information, offering knowledge of the territory, discrete surveillance and frequent passes over any point on Earth.
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Planning and conducting
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Guaranteed accuracy is 16 meters for planimetry and 10 meters for altimetry
- Obtain accurate, uniform, geospatial reference data for joint forces
- Quickly gain a 3D picture of the terrain
- Deliver geospatial information to plan and assess operations in the field: threat evaluation, target detection and location, and damage assessment
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When deploying coalition forces to out-of-area theatres of operation, 3D imagery provides a territory-wide geospatial reference.
Guaranteed horizontal accuracy is 16 meters in mountain areas and vertical accuracy is 10 to 30 meters, depending on slope (20% to 40%). |
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Spot Image offers
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Responding immediately to a crisis
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- Obtain imagery of any point on the globe within 24 hours, right from the start of a crisis
- Acquire imagery day and night, in all weather conditions, through multisensor tasking capability
- Understand and analyze the situation using archive imagery
- Keep track of proliferation and monitor disarmament treaty compliance
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Spot Image offers
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Operational geospatial information
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- Collect imagery needed to derive military geospatial information (satellite image maps, DEMs)
- Train future image processing and analysis specialists to:
- generate 2D and 3D map databases, satellite image maps and DEMs
- extract data geared specifically to forces and weapon systems (targeting, georeferencing, surface and navigation features)
- find documentation data and crisis and proliferation indicators (coverage of potential hotspots, surveillance of nations fuelling proliferation and monitoring of disarmament)
- Produce georeferenced layers of information for command systems
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Independent decision-making
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- Acquire the ability to analyze situations independently using the power of Earth-observing satellites free to fly anywhere over the globe
- Gain precise and reliable global information about theatres of operation rapidly, repeatedly and discreetly
- Derive information from multiple sources for stronger territorial surveillance
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