The proliferation in the availability of remotely sensed data creates challenges and opportunities for organizations charged on protecting our national security worldwide. Questions have only grown as the number and complexity of sensors advanced, with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Hyperspectral Imaging as the two leading examples. These sensors allow to derive rapid, actionable intelligence in a way that would be difficult or impossible to obtain from other sensors.

Remote sensing is being used more frequently to acquire information about a geographic area of interest prior to putting resources on the ground. Many problems faced by oil, gas, and mining professionals, including the selection and development of exploration areas, detection and mapping of illegal mining activities, or monitoring dams, pipelines and terrain movements can be efficiently addressed by extracting information from geospatial imagery.