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Commercial satellite imagery helps NATO meet the need for continuous monitoring, despite cost, technology and licensing issues. “NATO is not that rich, and the cost of commercial satellite
Commercial satellite imagery helps NATO meet the need for continuous monitoring, despite cost, technology and licensing issues.
“NATO is not that rich, and the cost of commercial satellite imagery is quite high,” Paul Bowman, NATO’s head of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and intelligence-gathering systems, said at the GEOINT Symposium on 22 May. “There is a limit to how much NATO can invest in this.”
Bowman said he hopes the prices for commercial satellite imagery and analytics will fall as the number of satellite and analytics providers increases.
“We’ve done a lot of experiments with some AI solutions to speed up the analysis process, but they’re really expensive,” Bowman said. “Some of the really good ones cost a lot of money. We hope it becomes more accessible.”
In addition, NATO seeks to obtain satellite imagery through the Alliance’s continuous surveillance from space. NATO is asking its members to provide funding and satellite data to create a virtual constellation called Aquila. The aim is to economically accelerate the collection, sharing and analysis of data between NATO members and the NATO command structure.
Different end-user license agreements also pose challenges for NATO.
“Being able to collaborate and share all this data is absolutely essential,” Bowman said, as NATO does not have its own intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites.
During NATO’s Unified Vision 2020 military exercise, four companies provided satellite images.
“Each had a different end-user license agreement,” Bowman said.
NATO has set up separate servers to ensure that the various data sets are transmitted only to the interested parties.
“I know everyone has their own interests, but I hope there is some convergence in end-user license agreements that will make it easier to use in a coalition environment,” Bowman said.
A smaller issue is technical difficulties. But Bowman said the more the data conforms to generally accepted standards, the easier it is to share.
For example, in the upcoming NATO exercises involving 18 countries, individual countries will collect, exchange, process, use and share data.
“Without these standards, not all countries can share,” Bowman said. Said.
Source: Port Altele
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