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, Germany, and is staffed by intelligence personnel assigned to the 24th Intelligence Squadron (24IS). The mission of EV1 is to maintain a deployable commercial satellite imagery system ready to support contingency operations, theater security cooperation events, and disaster relief efforts. The EV1 system consists of the two elements: a Data Acquisition Segment (DAS) which includes a direct downlink antenna and a computer server shelter that collects and processes imagery into a standard format, and a transit-cased Data Integration Segment (DIS) that processes the standard format products into useful products. EV1 works with satellite vendors from France (

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6 & 7, Pléiades 1A & 1B), Canada (

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1 & 2), and India ( CARTOSAT1 & 2) to provide unclassified imagery to customers. EV1 is part of a larger Eagle Vision enterprise that consists of four other units stationed in South Carolina, Alabama, California, and Hawaii. Newest tools at EV1: EVR2EST is an unclassified imagery server used to upload and share imagery products. See the link below to view the EVR2EST server.

References

* https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7sPKUxQw6P5eEJIRDI2elVHY2M * http://www.disam.dsca.mil/pubs/v.23_4/hartmetz.pdf {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303001121/http://www.disam.dsca.mil/pubs/v.23_4/hartmetz.pdf , date=2013-03-03 * https://web.archive.org/web/20150409020541/https://fas.org/irp/program/process/eagle_vision.htm * http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IAJ/is_4_23/ai_78803060/?tag=content;col1 United States Air Force Remote sensing programs