Client-defined satellite change monitoring from historical/new image classification to customizable alerts and geospatial or application delivery.
Technical detail
Core features
Region-of-interest and client-requirement definition
Optical/radar historical and new imagery classification
Customizable alerts and standard geospatial or application delivery
Earth observation
Change detection
Geospatial alerts
SAR
Optical imagery
Arctic monitoring
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Landscape, infrastructure and environmental change monitoring
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Supplier launched the monitoring service in June 2025. The funded DeCAF-RRT salmon-habitat extension remains in development. Supplier demonstrations and input image resolution do not establish universal detection accuracy; DRDC custom contracting is a separate work package.
Commercial availability
Define region, imagery/revisit/cloud plan, classification/false-alert criteria, processing/delivery SLA and outputs. Historical coverage since 1984 is imagery availability; monitoring depends on acquisition and processing.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
The described monitoring or connectivity function can inform northern situational awareness; environmental suitability and operational use require project-specific evidence.
The described integration, analysis or operator-support function may support monitoring workflows; autonomous deployment and customer acceptance require separate evidence.
This is a reviewed public-source assessment. It is not procurement eligibility, endorsement, customer interest, or classified demand.
Original sources 6 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · summary
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · name
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · core features
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · core features
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · core features
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · name
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · capability type
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · display lead
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · core features
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · summary
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · maturity
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · catalogue teaser
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · core features
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
ASL DeCAF combines historical multi-sensor satellite imagery with automated change detection and classification for an area of interest. Outputs include email alerts, GIS-compatible products and a web application, with examples in road monitoring, mines and disturbance mapping. Near-real-time delivery depends on image acquisition and processing; it is not continuous cloud-independent observation.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Client defines requirements/region of interest; ASL processes historical/new satellite imagery for classified changes, customizable alerts and standard geospatial products or app access, with customization/support. Acquisition/cloud/cadence/processing and detection/false-alert acceptance remain project-specific.
June2025 supplier launch describes historical landscape analysis since1984 and recurring monitoring/alerts from free/commercial optical/radar imagery using ML/AI. Since1984 is imagery-analysis coverage, not uninterrupted service operation since1984.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
June2025 supplier launch describes historical landscape analysis since1984 and recurring monitoring/alerts from free/commercial optical/radar imagery using ML/AI. Since1984 is imagery-analysis coverage, not uninterrupted service operation since1984.
Supplier describes DeCAF-RRT as in development in a two-year CSA SaMBA project. Named KitasooXai’xais, DFOIPSE, PacificSalmonFoundation andBCWLRS collaboration is supplier-reported, not proof each is a paying customer.
CanadaBuys names ASL in DRDC automatic site-monitoring contractW7701-217399/001/MTB, awarded February7 2022, published February8, amended February28 2023, reported CAD 1,609,650 and60months toFebruary6 2027. Task-authorization-based total is not proof all tasks were issued, paid or accepted.
June2025 supplier launch describes historical landscape analysis since1984 and recurring monitoring/alerts from free/commercial optical/radar imagery using ML/AI. Since1984 is imagery-analysis coverage, not uninterrupted service operation since1984.
ASL's DeCAF work applies satellite time-series, radar and optical imagery, machine learning and automated change detection to identify landscape disturbances and support wide-area monitoring.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
CSA smartEarth separately lists an earlier Stage1 toolkit to be developed for Canadian Arctic human-activity alerts/CAF situational awareness. August31 2023 is RFP date. This is distinct from the2025 salmon-habitat contribution; neither proves operational CAF deployment.
Supports: Mission area · Arctic Domain Awareness
The CSA explicitly frames DeCAF rapid-response work as wide-area situational awareness for monitoring Canadian Arctic landscapes and alerting to new human activity.