It’s one thing to talk about commercial geospatial intelligence and another to see it.

At the 2025 GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis last month, companies displayed their latest imagery and discussed insights analysts can draw from diverse remote-sensing datasets.

Constellations from startups and established companies are multiplying rapidly and contributing valuable observations that intelligence analysts use to monitor natural disasters, plan combat operations and enhance border security, U.S. and allied national security leaders said.

Commercial data improves cooperation among allies because unclassified datasets can be shared quickly, said UK Strategic Command GEOINT officer Katie Davies.

They are also easy to release to the public, which helps governments engage and educate their citi

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