1. An apparatus for information extraction from electromagnetic energy via multi-characteristic spatial geometry processing to determine three-dimensional aspects of an object from which the electromagnetic energy is proceeding, said apparatus including: means for receiving the electromagnetic energy, the received electromagnetic energy having a plurality of spatial phase characteristics; means for separating the plurality of spatial phase characteristics of the received electromagnetic energy; means for identifying spatially segregated portions of each spatial phase characteristic, with each spatially segregated portion of each spatial phase characteristic corresponding to a spatially segregated portion of each of the other spatial phase characteristics in a group; means for quantifying each segregated portion to provide a spatial phase metric of each segregated portion for providing a data map of the spatial phase metric of each separated spatial phase characteristic; and means for processing the spatial phase metrics to determine surface contour information for each segregated portion of the data map.