Persistent ISR · SAR Intelligence Sovereign · On-premise · Air-gap ready

Persistent ISR for
defense operators.

VigilSAR delivers all-weather, day-or-night intelligence from twelve open and commercial SAR constellations — including sub-meter X-band from Capella and Umbra — plus your own proprietary imagery, fused with live AIS, OSINT, and change detection. Built for analysts and operators, not PhDs.

Sovereign data residency SSO · SAML · OIDC Role-based access Verifiable no-phone-home Append-only audit log No telemetry GDPR · CCPA compliant
12+
SAR constellations
open, commercial, bring-your-own
20
Object classes
CFAR + ResNet-18
5
ISR mission areas
maritime · land · air · infra · activity
24/7
All-weather coverage
revisit in hours, not days
Why radar, why now

When optical fails, radar doesn't

Adversaries exploit weather, darkness, and camouflage. SAR sees through all of it. VigilSAR operationalises the data into decisions.

Denied environments

Optical imagery is useless at night, through clouds, smoke, or volcanic ash. SAR works through all of them.

Self-illuminating

Radar is its own light source. No sun angle required. Identical results at 3 AM local and at noon.

Hard to spoof

Metal and surface responses are physical, not cosmetic. Paint, netting, and optical camouflage don't fool a radar return.

Global coverage

Open constellations (Sentinel-1, NISAR, OPERA) cover the entire globe at no cost. No airspace permissions required.

Mission profiles

Designed around defense workflows

Six pre-configured profiles covering the most common ISR tasks. Every profile exports to GeoJSON, CSV, KML, PDF, and fires a signed webhook into your C2 / SIEM. AOIs, detections, and analyst notes persist as case files for handoff.

Maritime Domain Awareness

Detect vessels. Flag the dark ones.

Ship detection with wake analysis for speed and heading. Every detection is cross-referenced against the live AIS feed — vessels without a matching transponder surface as priority leads. Sanctions-busters, grey fleets, and tanker-to-tanker transfers rise to the top of the queue automatically.

Airfield Monitoring

Count aircraft across denied airspace

Airbase-aware classifier detects fixed-wing on aprons and runways. Every aircraft detection is checked against live ADS-B — anything flying without a cooperative transponder is flagged. Change detection surfaces new hangar, apron, or revetment construction between acquisitions.

Force Movement Indicators

Convoy and staging detection

Vehicle and convoy classes. Camp and equipment detection. Contacts persist across acquisitions so the same staging area is recognised pass after pass — new units stand out against the baseline. Activity-gathering alerts surface assembly areas for analyst review.

Fortification & Earthworks

New berms, bunkers, trenchworks

CFAR + InSAR coherence loss identifies fresh ground disturbance. Debris-field classifier supports rapid post-strike BDA.

Critical Infrastructure Watch

Ports, pipelines, depots, rail

Container and crane tracking. Weekly delta reports. Exports to GeoJSON and KML for direct GIS handoff.

Post-Strike BDA

Rapid damage assessment

Debris-field + 5-class change classifier within hours of an event. Generates stamped PDF reports with before/after, lat/lng, and confidence.

Operator-ready

The difference between a map viewer and a mission system

Three capabilities that let an analyst trust the screen — and that a JTAC or collection manager can actually act on.

Standard military symbology

Every detection renders as a NATO APP-6 / MIL-STD-2525D military icon with the proper affiliation frame — friendly blue, hostile red, neutral green, unknown yellow. Twenty object classes mapped to their canonical SIDC codes. Analysts recognise the symbols on day one; no platform-specific training, no cognitive overhead. Coalition briefings work out of the box.

Contacts that persist across revisits

The same vessel keeps the same contact identity across weeks of observation — not a fresh detection every pass. Stable contact IDs re-associate automatically on each new acquisition based on class, proximity, and temporal coherence. Label a track once as hostile and the classification carries forward to every future observation. The foundation for pattern-of-life, port dwell, and convoy analytics. Timelines, not snapshots.

Dark contacts surface automatically

Every maritime and air detection is cross-referenced in real time against live AIS and ADS-B feeds. Vessels with disabled transponders — sanctions-busters, grey fleets, illicit tanker-to-tanker transfers — are flagged for priority review with nearest-neighbour distance so analysts can judge confidence. Aircraft flying dark rise to the top of the queue. Analyst time goes to the leads that actually matter.

Fires-cell ready coordinates

Every detection exports as 10-digit MGRS, WGS84 latitude and longitude, altitude above sea level from a global DEM, and a per-sensor Circular Error Probable. Analysts copy the grid straight into calls for fire, target nomination packets, or coalition briefings without a separate mensuration step. Uncertainty is explicit — buyers know what they can and cannot act on.

Task new collection from the same screen

Found a gap? Submit a new tasking request to Capella, Umbra, or ICEYE directly from the area-of-interest panel. Your vendor API key stays yours — transmitted once over TLS to the vendor and cleared from memory after submission. VigilSAR never stores, logs, or holds credentials. Close the loop from detection to re-collection without leaving the map.

Data sources

Twelve SAR constellations, one unified catalogue

Smart recommendation engine selects the optimal source per region and mission. C-band, L-band, X-band; sub-meter to ~30 m resolution. Historical archive back to ERS-1 (1991).

Sentinel-1 A/B/C
C-band · 5–20 m · ESA
NISAR
L+S-band · 5–10 m · NASA/ISRO
ICEYE
X-band · sub-meter
Capella Space
X-band · 0.5 m · open data
Umbra
X-band · 16 cm · open data
ALOS-PALSAR
L-band · 10–30 m · JAXA
ALOS-2
L-band · 3–10 m · JAXA
ERS-1/2
C-band · archive · ESA
JERS-1
L-band · archive · JAXA
OPERA
Analysis-ready · NASA
🎯
New — sub-meter out of the box

Capella 0.5 m and Umbra 16 cm — no account required

Both open-data catalogues are now first-class sources alongside Sentinel-1 and ICEYE. Ideal for proof-of-concept evaluations before wiring your commercial tasking subscription.

📡

Bring your own data

Ingest proprietary or commercial SAR imagery alongside the open catalogue: Airbus, Kleos, Satellogic, Capella commercial tasking, classified national constellations, or your own UAV / airborne radar. VigilSAR accepts GeoTIFF / Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF inputs and runs the full detection, change-classification, and InSAR pipeline against them — no vendor lock-in.

AI detection

20 object classes across 5 ISR domains

Two-stage pipeline: CFAR bright-target detection followed by a ResNet-18 classifier trained on xView3 (maritime) and SpaceNet-6 (urban SAR) with published precision/recall per class. Scene-aware (maritime, land, urban, airbase). Georeferenced markers with confidence scores — ready for C2 hand-off.

Ship
Tanker
Fishing vessel
Warship
Offshore platform
Vehicle
Vehicle convoy
Train
Aircraft
Structure
Container
Crane
Antenna / tower
Equipment
Fortification
Camp
Gathering
Construction site
Debris field
Ship wakes

Plus specialised detectors: ship wake analysis (Radon transform — estimates speed and heading), InSAR coherence change, and a 5-class change classifier (construction, demolition, flooding, vegetation loss, no-change).

Deployment

Sovereign options, operator control

Defense procurement demands control over where data lives and who can touch it. VigilSAR ships in three configurations — hosted in your jurisdiction of choice (EU, US, Canada, UK, AU), on your own hardware, or fully air-gapped. Pick what your authority-to-operate allows.

Cloud

Hosted

Fastest path to value for unclassified work.

  • Regional hosting: EU, US, Canada, UK, AU
  • Data residency in your jurisdiction
  • SSO: Microsoft, Google, Okta (SAML / OIDC)
  • Managed updates & model releases
  • Shared or dedicated tenancy
On-premise

Your hardware

Runs on your GPUs, inside your network.

  • Docker / Kubernetes reference bundle
  • CUDA and Apple Silicon supported
  • SSO: Microsoft, Google, Okta (SAML / OIDC)
  • Role-based access: admin / analyst / viewer
  • Append-only audit log (SIEM-friendly JSONL)
  • No outbound telemetry
Air-gapped

Offline bundle

Full install with bundled model weights.

  • Ships with vigilsar verify — scripted no-phone-home proof
  • No outbound DNS, no update checks
  • Local COG / tile cache ingestion
  • Append-only audit log (SIEM-friendly)
  • Operator-supplied imagery ingest

Need a classified briefing or a live mission test?

We run demos against your area of interest. Bring a polygon; we bring the imagery. On-premise evaluations available under mutual NDA.