[mturmon]

In Cold War times, information from remote sensing was recognized as important to understanding the USSR grain harvest and possible instability it might cause. I'm sure interest and target lists have only increased since then.

See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_United_States–Soviet_Unio...

Or the perennial Afghanistan poppies: https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9851