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Continuous awareness at global scale

Merlin is the global baseline detection layer of Satellogic’s Persistent Global Intelligence infrastructure. It scans the planet daily to detect change and surface what matters, connecting with the rest of Satellogic’s constellation to cue high-resolution confirmation and persistent monitoring programs.

Global visibility for
mission advantage

Maintain a living operational baseline across countries, regions, borders, and critical infrastructure networks.

See changes in activity, movement, and development as they emerge, helping you prioritize attention across large areas and focus higher-resolution collection where deeper context is needed.

MERLIN AT A GLANCE

Daily

global monitoring

1-meter

best-in-class resolution

spectral bands

170 km

swath at nadir

Real-time

alerts, less than 30 mins worldwide

AI In-Orbit

tip and cue to higher-resolution asset

Merlin is the Connected Detection Layer

Merlin scans the entire planet daily to provide real-time insights and connects into the rest of Satellogic’s constellation to immediately task high-resolution image collection for ultimate decision advantage.

Establish a persistent global baseline

Scans the planet daily to maintain continuous awareness of activity and change.

Prioritize where attention matters most

Surfaces what matters and directs higher-resolution assets for confirmation and context.

Connect broad awareness to focused monitoring

Feeds detected activity into Aleph Observer for high-resolution follow-up and persistent monitoring.

Within the PGI architecture

Merlin discovers what has changed. A daily planet-wide scan establishes the living baseline, and onboard AI surfaces meaningful change across theatre-scale areas of interest as it happens.
Confirmation and context. Inter-satellite links let Merlin cue the rest of the fleet in near real time, so a detection becomes a high-resolution look without waiting on a new tasking cycle.
Persistent monitoring, operationalized.Sites that matter move into continuous monitoring in Aleph Observer, taking our work from known-site monitoring to whole-world continuous awareness.