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Re:Directed Energy Planetary Defense and Relativistic Probes on Thursday January 07, 2016 @01:37PM (#10859779)
They propose additions use cases for the array in their papers. These include a LIDAR based detection system. I'm on my phone right now so I can't link the appropriate one. Let me know if you are interested and I can find it later.
They have long range iris identification. It stands to reason that soon that will also be enough to gather a replica without the target knowing.

https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/research/projects/2012/long-range-...

In fact my research lab recently received a donation of high power telescopes after being used for testing extremely long range iris identification technology. I'm not sure if the project was scrapped or if they are planning on continuing development.