The Home Office's Eye in the Sky system will be tested on 20 young offenders in Hampshire. The Government will decide whether to expand the programme across England and Wales after a 12-month trial.
Satellite tracking allows all the movements of an offender to be tracked. The information is stored in a device worn by the offender and uploaded manually.
Exclusion orders ban young offenders from visiting areas where authorities believe they are likely to commit crime.
Jeff Ballard, manager of the Wessex Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme where the technology is being piloted, said: "We're plotting where offences are committed and seeing if there is a pattern."
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