Overwatch Imaging

Overwatch Imaging delivers proven autonomous intelligence capabilities that help operators outpace threats, reduce workload, and make mission-critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company’s Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software, native to its own line of purpose-built smart sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms, brings superhuman vision and workload reduction to users of real-time imagery intelligence systems.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River, Oregon, Overwatch Imaging supports private sector companies as well as federal, state, and local agencies and has been deployed around the world for a wide variety of marine and maritime applications, including spill response, search and rescue, border patrol, wildlife monitoring and more.

ASO Software

Autonomy Upgrade for EO/IR Video Gimbals

ASO (Automated Sensor Operator) is Overwatch Imaging’s software-defined sensor autonomy platform that transforms airborne sensors into intelligent, AI-enabled ISR systems. The platform automates sensor control, wide-area search, detection, and real-time edge processing. ASO delivers actionable intelligence at speed, while reducing operator workload and unlocking new, superhuman capabilities.

ASO automates manual-intensive ISR tasks at the tactical edge, with software that executes workflows with greater speed, precision, and consistency than human operators alone. ASO autonomously controls sensor steering and data collection, processes and analyzes imagery in real time without the need for raw data transmission, and distills large volumes of data into actionable intelligence.

The result is systematic, high-fidelity coverage of wide areas, reduced human tasking, and faster time-to-intelligence, freeing operators to focus less on searching and more on decisive response.

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Smart Sensors

Purpose-built for autonomous airborne intelligence

Overwatch Imaging’s high-resolution multispectral imaging systems deliver precise, rapid and large-area image intelligence for a wide range of time-critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), search, emergency response and mapping missions.

Integrating high-resolution multispectral imaging with onboard edge processing and AI-driven autonomy, they execute end-to-end ISR workflows at the edge. The result is high-fidelity, actionable intelligence, delivered at speed in time-critical environments.

Overwatch Imaging smart sensors solve the “soda straw” effect common in traditional video gimbal systems, where obtaining actionable-resolution imagery forces operators into focus-intensive search, narrow fields of view, and severely constrained area coverage. Overwatch Imaging systems combine automated, wide-area data collection with onboard, AI-powered processing and analysis to cover a wider area, at a higher resolution, in less time.

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PT Series Smart Sensors

Outward Facing EO/IR Sensor Systems for Wide Area Search, Detection, and ISR

The PT Series of smart sensors is optimized for automatically scanning, finding and detecting objects of interest over wide areas, automating the labor-intensive task of searching for small objects of interest in vast and often challenging maritime environments.

Featuring AI-powered analysis and onboard edge processing, the sensors deliver real-time geolocated intelligence while reducing operator workload.

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TK Series Smart Sensors

Nadir Oriented Multispectral Sensor Systems for Wide-Area Mapping and ISR

The TK Series of nadir-oriented smart sensors is optimized to deliver high-quality, high-resolution imagery for wide-area, multi-domain mapping and ISR. Filling the operational gap between low-altitude tactical ISR and space-based collection, TK sensors generate actionable intelligence products in real time, at a critical layer of the intelligence stack.

By combining multispectral imaging with advanced onboard edge processing and AI-driven autonomy, TK Series smart sensors rapidly scan wide areas, while reducing operator workload and enabling faster decision-making in dynamic operational environments.

Missions include maritime ISR, search and rescue, oil spill mapping, and more.

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