At the GEOINT 2026 Symposium, Project Geospatial caught up with Kelly Kroegel, a former Marine Special Operations intelligence analyst now with Torchlight. In this exclusive interview and platform demo, Kelly reveals how Torchlight utilizes a massive 9-petabyte hot storage network of anonymized location data to trace device patterns of life without compromising user privacy.

From tracking international deployments out of the UK's 22nd SAS headquarters to identifying unmarked training compounds in the Middle East, learn how defense analysts use Torchlight's interface and robust API to isolate threats, track border movements, and build predictive intelligence models.

Terradepth, led by CTO Andrew Lunstead, focuses on helping people make better decisions about the ocean, an environment less understood than the surface of Mars due to data collection challenges. Their approach involves both developing high-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for massive data gathering and the sensor-agnostic Absolute Ocean data platform. This platform, built on CesiumJS, provides an intuitive, world-view interface for managing and visualizing current and historical undersea surveys. Terradepth supports critical sectors like offshore energy, resource management, and defense. While accommodating data from any source, Terradepth has consolidated its cloud operations within AWS, including GovCloud for enhanced security. A significant innovation is leveraging edge computing with Absolute Ocean to drastically reduce the "scan to decision" time from months to mere hours, greatly enhancing the speed of critical operations