24 April 2015

How Commercial Satellite Analytics May Help Nab Terrorists

APRIL 15, 2015

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The company behind much of the satellite imagery found on Google Maps and Microsoft Bing is now offering analytical services that can help track human activity, from African elephant poachers to Islamic terrorists.

DigitalGlobe Inc. recently became the first commercial supplier of satellite imagery to offer images in 30-centimeter resolution — high enough to identify manhole covers, fire hydrants and other objects on the ground from a constellation of satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth.

The Longmont, Colo.-based company also offers a product that looks for patterns in human activity and can help predict where it might occur next.

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