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GeoEye’s IKONOS satellite captures one-meter image one day after tornado touch down

Monday, March 5th, 2012

This one-meter resolution satellite image by of Harrisburg, Illinois, by GeoEye was collected March 1, 2012, just one day after a Level 4 tornado touched down on February 29, 2012.

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GeoEye publishes images of the Sahara Desert, Eastern Algeria

Friday, February 10th, 2012

In GeoEye’s gallery are numerous high resolution images of locations across the globe. The Eastern Algerian portion of the Sahara is an otherworldly place, a region of great diversity with endless stretches of sand dunes and rocky platforms that can reach more than 2,000 meters. The Tassili n’Ajjer “Plateau of the Rivers” National Park is a vast plateau in southeast Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger, and Mali, covering 72,000 square kilometers. Satellite Image Courtesy of GeoEye

Satellite imagery in Colorado may face steep federal budget cuts

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

The Denver area has become a center of satellite imagery providers in recent years. Proposed steep cuts in the U.S. Department of Defense budget could affect satellite-imagery providers DigitalGlobe, headquartered in Longmont, and GeoEye,based in Virginia with a processing and operations center in Thornton. Combined, the companies have about 1,200 employees.

 

This satellite image made available Sept. 26, 2009, by DigitalGlobe shows the suspected Iranian nuclear facility of Fordo near the holy Shiite city of Qom, where Iran is has begun enriching uranium, according to the U.N. atomic watchdog group, the International Atomic Energy Agency. (AFP/Getty Images file)

 

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GeoEye and TerraGo Team Up to Offer Spatial Imagery on the Go

Monday, October 10th, 2011

According to Frost & Sullivan analyst Daniel Longfield: “The explosion in the collection of advanced imagery and other spatial data and its consumption by non-GIS experts necessitates solutions to make data-rich intelligence more conveniently available and actionable by the broader enterprise and in the field.”

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GeoEye/Esri contract to license high resolution imagery

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

According to a press announcement today, GeoEye has signed a strategic contract with Esri to license a large amount of high-resolution imagery to produce a global, static cache map layer. The imagery will be available to Esri users via ArcGIS.com, a system that allows for work with GIS desktops, Web browsers and mobile devices.




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