DARPA’s GCA harnessing commercially available Geospatial Imagery on secure cloud-based platform for Defense Analysis

The rapid pace of new commercial satellite constellation launches has led to a corresponding increase in the amount and availability of geospatial data. While these constellations largely focus on non-military uses, their data has numerous military applications. For example, the new constellations provide optical, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and Radio Frequency (RF) data that could provide situational awareness, event detection, monitoring, and tracking capabilities. Unlike traditional geospatial data collection approaches, these constellations provide global coverage at high revisit rates without requiring specific tasking.