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  Pentagon Eyes Satellites Equipped with Joystick-controlled Video Cameras

  WASHINGTON — At an undisclosed location in Europe in October, U.S. intelligence workers and military officials got their first glimpse of a European-pioneered technology that could offer a new way to monitor battlefields, shipping lanes or disaster-relief zones.

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  U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Floods the Battlefield – and the Troops Want More

  U.S. troops are hungrier than ever for user-friendly geospatial intelligence that can be accessed quickly and merged with other intelligence, sometimes in the midst of a mission, said members of the panel "The View from Down Range" at the Geoint 2007 Symposium here.

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