Before we get too carried away with the in-built EO/IR and SAR/GMTI capabilities on the F-35 they do come with limitations.
The SAR/GMTI capabilities are relatively short range and have no post-flight exploitation capabilities beyond the generic ability to record what the pilot has selected on his display at the time. It will be fused with everything else and considering it is a tactical sensor it is way beyond anything we have fielded before. As with everything that goes through the fusion engine the first challenge will be the lawyers. Don't forget your rabbit's ears either!
The EOTS limitations are as per the pictures we have all seen - can you see through the facetted windows? Yep, it is only transparent to IR. For all of you who like long range high res TV to spot your bad guys to the RoE level required get used to only having an IR picture to a level slightly below that of the current gen IR pods. Time to brush-up on the thermal dusk/dawn considerations too whilst respecting the limited look-up capabilities when used in sudo-IRST mode. USMC is considering a pod as they are kinda keen on delivering ordinance close to the blokes they share a boat with.
The DAS is amazing, but it uses 6 relatively low res IR pictures stretched over a full sphere. The plus is getting full sphere, but don't expect the latest NVG acuity when delivering your weapons.
The F-35 has an amazing array of technologies crammed into a shortish, space and weight critical package that has LO capabilities to the fore. As a result the pure performance of some systems is compromised, but the idea is that the fusion of these systems and off-board information will make it better than the sum of its parts.
Still got to get all the multination platform-agnostic automated and integrated fusion engine past the 'sovereign kill-chain' lawyers so we can actually go and whack someone with it!
From a generic point of view I'd assumed based on the appetite for imagery data there'd be a way to 'get' the recorded imagery and meta data into an image analyst workstation post mission and then do your post processing there then distribute it to reference libraries and where ever else from thence?