[justinvh]

I thought I would chime in on my own experience with related imagery. It's not uncommon to use a drone similiar to ARGUS that is capable of NIIRS 5-7 (see http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/niirs.htm) resolution for surveying. The guys at the ground station will find some region of interest and then use another bird/sensor--whether that is SAR, IR, multispectral, etc--with NIIRS 8-9 resolution and have it give a better look at the finer details of the area.

In terms of detecting objects: anybody with any sort of computer vision background will probably be scoffing at drawing rectangles around objects that are moving within a stable image. However, at a broader scope, change detection and broad area detection are heavily research fields and are always of interest to whatever 3-letter agency that deals with the imagery.

So, not only does ARGUS solve problems, it also provides data for creating new problems. Cool little piece of hardware.