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IARPA to Brief Industry on Data Fusion Project in Multispectral Imaging for Intelligence Analysis

U.S. intelligence experts will brief industry on 29 May 2019 on a project to blend data from satellite-based multispectral imaging sensors and visible-light sensors to detect heavy building projects and highway construction from space. Officials of the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Projects Agency (IARPA) in Washington will sponsor the industry briefings for the Space-based Machine Automated

Deep in the Pentagon, a Secret AI Program to Find Hidden Nuclear Missiles

The U.S. military is increasing spending on a secret research effort to use artificial intelligence to help anticipate the launch of a nuclear-capable missile, as well as track and target mobile launchers in North Korea and elsewhere. The effort has gone largely unreported, and the few publicly available details about it are buried under a

Satellite Imagery Is Revolutionizing the World. But Should We Always Trust What We See?

In 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 captured what has become one of the most iconic images of the Earth: the Blue Marble. Biochemist Gregory Petsko described the image as “perfectly representing the human condition of living on an island in the universe.” Many researchers now credit the image as marking the beginning of environmental