Commercial Data Providers Can Help Solve Resiliency Equation

摘要

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency believes more than 600 commercial imaging satellites could be on orbit by 2021 and hopes to leverage these assets to diversify its data sources; The NGA collects, analyzes and distributes geospatial information, much of it derived from satellite imagery, for the military and intelligence community. The boom in the commercial satellite imagery business comes at a time when the U.S. government satellites that the NGA depends on today are viewed as increasingly vulnerable to threats from China and Russia. These parallel phenomena were major themes during the Geoint 2015 Symposium here, an annual event organized by the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.