Eagle Vision One (EV1) was a military based Commercial Satellite Imagery (CSI) capability programmed and funded by HQ AF/A2QS (Air Force ISR Innovations). It is located at
Ramstein Air Base
Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force installation located in Rhineland-Palatinate, southwestern Germany. It serves as the headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and NATO Alli ...
, 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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Spot
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6 & 7,
Pléiades 1A & 1B), Canada (
RADARSAT
RADARSAT is a Canadian remote sensing Earth observation satellite program overseen by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The program has consisted of:
* RADARSAT-1 (1995–2013)
* RADARSAT-2 (2007–)
* RADARSAT Constellation (2019-)
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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