Uncle Sam doesn't really want a gangly 18-year-old soldier to stand guard outside the gate of a military base, rather he wants a wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system that provides surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering using specialized software and camera systems to detect and track hundreds of people and vehicles all at the same time over a city-sized area. Uncle Sam doesn't really want a blurry eyed, half asleep and distracted human pilot flying in circles trying to find camouflaged bad guys on the ground, rather he wants a multispectral system, that can see things invisible to human eyes, consisting of four high-definition cameras covering five spectral bands; a three-color diode pump laser designator and rangefinder; laser spot search and track capability; automated sensor and laser bore sight alignment; three-mode target tracker., and MTS sensors that offers multiple fields of view, electronic zoom, and multimode video tracking. Uncle Sam doesn't really want more spies in trench coats that lurk in dark corners vaping, rather he wants persistent surveillance systems that collect and integrate data from specific geographic areas with data on activities that happened there at specific dates and times. This capability requires a spatiotemporal analytic method to recognize trends and patterns from large, diverse data sets. These data sets identify activities: events and transactions conducted by entities (people or vehicles) in an area, while documenting patterns of life and alerting to unusual events.