how spy/military satellites find things?

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When a military satellite finds a base being set up or personnel/vehicles being moved in large numbers in a foreign country, how do they know where to look?

Presumably they don’t have people who scan every square yard of the earth until something changes, and I’m guessing there is an element of other intelligence gathering to use as a guide – but do computers do the rest with something like a before/after comparison every so often and flag up differences? The follow on question from that would be what stops them flagging every car that moves?

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>Presumably they don’t have people who scan every square yard of the earth until something changes

You’d be surprised.

Check out university programs in “Remote Sensing”

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