The U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency is purchasing commercial remote sensing imagery, some under exclusive use agreements, to support operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Applications ...

Satellite imagery shows crowds of people gathered on the tarmac at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan as thousands of people try to exit the country. (Courtesy of Maxar Technologies) ...

They bought most of the capacity of the IKONOS satellite in the Middle East region.” Images of Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf region are transmitted daily from the company’s IKONOS satellite, which ...

For decades, the U.S. Departments of Defense and State have had spy satellites collecting images over the country, ... the AHMP’s goal is to record all of Afghanistan’s cultural features.

Qais Alamdar, a German-based open source intelligence researcher monitoring Afghanistan’s satellite imagery and ground reports, says that while it is impossible to know exactly how many fighters ...