# Earth Observation Intelligence

## Overview

An environmental compliance team needs to verify whether a mining operation has encroached on a protected area buffer zone over the past eighteen months. They have satellite imagery from multiple acquisition dates, but without a structured way to compare scenes, track monitored assets, and flag changes against a compliance baseline, the review is a manual process prone to missed detections. Argus Earth Observation Intelligence gives that team one workspace to manage the full workflow: coverage scheduling, imagery comparison, compliance tracking, and alert response.

The module is a full operational workbench for organisations that need persistent oversight of monitored locations, structured satellite analysis, and compliance-ready reporting from earth observation workflows. Operators monitor asset coverage, compare imagery over time, review observation and analysis volume, assess compliance posture, and respond to alert conditions tied to satellite-derived monitoring, all from a single surface designed for daily operational use.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    A[Satellite Acquisitions] --> D[Earth Observation Engine]
    B[Monitored Asset Registry] --> D
    C[Compliance Baselines] --> D
    D --> E[Change Detection Analysis]
    D --> F[Compliance Summary]
    D --> G[Alert Generation]
    E --> H[Analyst Workbench]
    F --> H
    G --> I[Alert Response Queue]
```

**Last Reviewed:** 2026-03-24
**Last Updated:** 2026-04-14

## Key Features

- **Monitored Asset Dashboard**: Track the total monitored asset base, active coverage, and the current alert posture for each monitored location.
- **Observation and Analysis Tracking**: View observation volume, analysis throughput, and active monitoring-module posture from a single operations surface.
- **Imagery Comparison Workflows**: Compare imagery over time to detect changes, assess anomaly development, and support evidential or compliance decisions.
- **Compliance Monitoring**: Surface earth-observation-backed compliance summaries for teams that need to validate land use, protected-area status, or other monitored obligations.
- **Asset Drill-Down**: Move from the fleet-level dashboard to asset-specific detail workflows for focused review and follow-up.
- **Integrated Alerting**: Monitor active alerts derived from satellite observations so analysts can move directly from detection to review and action.

## Use Cases

- **Infrastructure and Site Monitoring**: Track critical assets, facilities, or regions for changes in activity, construction, disruption, or suspicious movement.
- **Compliance Oversight**: Use satellite-derived evidence to support environmental, land-use, or supply-chain compliance monitoring with auditable observation history.
- **Change Detection Analysis**: Compare recent and historic imagery to identify emerging anomalies, unauthorised development, or post-incident changes on the ground.
- **Satellite-Backed Alert Response**: Investigate newly triggered alerts by moving from dashboard summary to the affected asset and associated imagery-analysis context.

## Integration

- Earth observation dashboard, monitored-asset, and compliance-summary queries
- Geospatial mapping and asset-location services
- Alerting and analysis workflows
- Shared hub surfaces for ISR, geospatial, and home-dashboard previews