Countdown to Launch Begins for GeoEye-1
17 July 2008
GeoEye announced that the GeoEye-1 satellite has safely arrived at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in preparation for its scheduled launch on the 22 August 2008.
AAMHatch is the sole authorized GeoEye reseller of IKONOS products in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, and as such is keenly awaiting the new GeoEye-1 products which will flow from this new satellite.
GeoEye-1 will have the highest resolution of any commercial satellite imaging system: 41cm for panchromatic (black and white) imagery and multispectral (color) imagery at 165cm resolution. Due to US Government restrictions the commercially supplied panchromatic imagery or merged colour products will have a spatial resolution of 50cm.
The satellite is designed to offer 3m horizontal accuracy without additional processing, which means that end users can map natural and man-made features to within 3m of their actual locations on the surface of the Earth without ground control points.
GeoEye will be utilizing multiple sources for primary data reception since the combined daily collection capacity for both the IKONOS and GeoEye-1 satellites will be nearly one million square kilometres.
More information about the launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite and its products will be posted on our website as it becomes available.
