As part of its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Pentagon research agency Darpa is launching the “Transparent Earth” project which will create real-time, 3-D maps that display “the physical, chemical and dynamic properties of the earth down to 5 kilometer depth” by 2015. The new maps would help explain and predict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes but would have military utility in detecting, targeting, and destroying hard and buried underground facility (UGF) target.