HOUSTON, TX, October 15, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- The GeoEye-1 satellite sensor acquired its first high-resolution satellite image over Kutztown, Pennsylvania on October 7, 2008. Though the satellite collects imagery at 0.41-meter ground resolution, due to U.S. licensing restrictions, commercial customers will only get access to imagery that has been processed to half-meter ground resolution (0.5-meter or 1.64-feet).
To view satellite image go to: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/galleryimages/geoeye-1-kutztown.jpg
The satellite has been undergoing calibration and checkout since it was launched on September 6, 2008 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. GeoEye and Satellite Imaging Corporation will begin selling GeoEye-1 imagery products later this fall.
For GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor specifications go to: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/geoeye-1.html
Leopold J. Romeijn, Satellite Imaging Corporation's President, said, "The collection and release of the first GeoEye-1 satellite image is a great achievement by the GeoEye team demonstrating GeoEye's capability to collect new high-resolution satellite image data on time and at superior imaging quality."
GeoEye-1 is designed to have better than three-meter (_3m) WGS-84 ECEF geospatial position accuracy, which means that customers can map natural and man-made features to within three meters of their actual locations on the surface of the Earth, without establishing GPS derived ground control points (GCP's). This degree of inherent accuracy will benefit customers requiring the best accuracy possible for commercial imaging, covering large areas.
Customers interested in GeoEye-1 geospatial products will have a choice of ordering basic, georeferenced, orthorectified image data for standard products or stereo imagery for the production of Digital Elevation Models (DEM's) to support 3D Terrain models for various applications including flight simulation and 3D GIS projects.
The imaging capabilities of the GeoEye-1 satellite sensor will benefit a broad array of industries including national defense and intelligence, online mapping, state and local governments, environmental monitoring and land use management, oil and gas, mining, utilities, disaster management, insurance and others.
About Satellite Imaging Corporation
Satellite Imaging Corporation uses advanced image processing techniques from various satellite sensors such as color and panchromatic image data processing, orthorectification, pan sharpening with image data fusion, image enhancements, georeferencing, mosaicing, and color/grayscale balancing and is used in various applications.
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