Delivering geospatial intelligence to entire organizations through the SecureWatch subscription service

Defense and intelligence organizations need access to authoritative geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to make decisions and act with confidence. Satellite imagery is foundational to GEOINT because it enables analysts to understand and model the locations and characteristics of land, facilities and equipment. But historically, organizations have been challenged to deliver satellite imagery to all personnel who need it, from top-level decision-makers to mission planners to boots on the ground.

The two main reasons for this deficiency have been access and bandwidth. Nationally collected imagery was highly restricted and tightly controlled, primarily to prevent adversaries from discovering collection capabilities and timelines. But with the emergence of commercial providers in the 1990s, satellite imagery has become more and more unclassified. Meanwhile, rapid advances in cloud computing and data storage now make it possible to provide entire image libraries to all authorized members within organizations.

As pioneers in commercial satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe has been at the forefront of making GEOINT available and accessible. We continue to lead the way with SecureWatch, the premier cloud-based imagery service for rapid access to geospatial intelligence. SecureWatch provides on-demand access to the entire 17-year DigitalGlobe imagery library, as well as fresh images, as they become available, from DigitalGlobe’s constellation of five high-resolution Earth-imaging satellites.

This was adapted from the complete DigitalGlobe blog post. Read more here.