In areas that are physically inaccessible, politically restricted, or too costly for near-persistent airborne ISR, adversaries and illicit actors can operate with little risk of detection. By revealing these transmissions from space, HawkEye 360 provides intelligence teams with the visibility needed to monitor activity, map networks, and make confident decisions.
Vast borders, remote terrain, and denied areas create blind spots for conventional ISR—prime locations for illicit activity and adversary coordination using communications such as push-to-talk (PTT) radios, including DMR and VHF/UHF variants, as well as mobile satellite devices.
HawkEye 360’s Communications Detection & Mapping product suite provides space-based coverage to detect, characterize, and geolocate these signals to augment other sensing modalities. The broad area of collection can uncover a substantial portion of communications signals in a single pass, achieving in minutes what might otherwise require many hours of airborne ISR.
Automatically detects, classifies, and geolocates communications signals to reduce analyst workload and speed time to insight.
Tri-satellite collections and advanced processing improve accuracy for communications emissions.
Provides access to areas where traditional ISR collection is costly, risky, or restricted.
High-confidence detections enhance ISR collection plans and support multi-INT fusion.
Network
Mapping
Identify relationships, relays, and communication hubs.
Border
Security
Monitor remote border regions for illicit cross-border coordination.
Counter-
Smuggling
Detect and monitor maritime or ground smuggling communications.
Red Force
Profiling
Build communications profiles for adversary units over time.
Communications Detection & Mapping equips defense and intelligence teams with the routine visibility needed to identify and track radio transmissions across any environment. By exposing the presence, location, and patterns of communications activity, it strengthens ISR strategies, reduces reliance on costly and vulnerable forward-deployed assets, and enables faster, higher-confidence decision-making. This capability enhances multi-INT fusion, supports long-term pattern-of-life development, and provides a decisive edge in anticipating adversary actions before they unfold.