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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: GEOY) |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Dulles, Virginia, United States |
| Key people | Matthew O'Connell, CEO |
| Revenue | $121,000,000 USD |
| Employees | 295 |
| Website | GeoEye.com |
GeoEye is a commercial satellite imagery company, formed in 2006 following the acquisition of Space Imaging by ORBIMAGE. The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of Artificial satellites. GeoEye provides 1-meter satellite imaging to the public, but also receives a significant portion of its income from contracts with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA) is an agency of the United States Government with the primary mission of collection analysis and
GeoEye also provides 253 million square kilometers of satellite map images to Microsoft and Yahoo! search engines. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer
GeoEye's headquarters are in Dulles, Virginia. Dulles Virginia is an unincorporated Census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Satellite Operations are conducted in Dulles, Virginia and in Thornton, Colorado. The City of Thornton is a suburb of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area, and a Home Rule Municipality located in Adams County Locations in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Norman, Oklahoma provide additional image processing. Norman is the largest city in and the County seat of Cleveland County in the U There are multiple ground stations located worldwide.
GeoEye's primary competitors are DigitalGlobe and Spot Image. DigitalGlobe, of Longmont Colorado, USA, is a privately held commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content and operator of civilian Spot Image a public limited company created in 1982 by the French Space Agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES the IGN, and Space Manufacturers ( Matra
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Satellites
GeoEye operates its own fleet of imaging satellites, which provide visible and near-infrared images of land and sea at resolutions below 1 meter.
IKONOS
Launched in 1999 by Space Imaging, IKONOS collects 0. History IKONOS was originated under the Lockheed Martin Corporation as the Commercial Remote Sensing System (CRSS satellite 82-meter panchromatic and 3. 2-meter multispectral data at a rate of over 2,000 square kilometers per minute. IKONOS orbits the Earth every 98 minutes at an altitude of approximately 680 kilometers or 423 miles. It travels a sun-synchronous orbit, passing a given longitude at 10:30 AM local time. This article is about a class of orbits about the Earth For a class of orbits around the sun see Heliosynchronous orbit. IKONOS is operated out of Thornton, Colorado.
ORBVIEW-3
Launched in 2003 by ORBIMAGE, OrbView-3 acquires 1-meter panchromatic and 4-meter multispectral imagery in an 8-kilometer-wide swath. The satellite collects up to 210,000 square kilometers of imagery each day. It revisits each location on Earth in less than three days with the ability to collect data up to 50 degrees off nadir. Similar to IKONOS, this satellite passes a given longitude at 10:30 AM local time. OrbView-3 is operated out of Dulles, Virginia.
GeoEye, Inc. 's OrbView-3 satellite is currently not engaged in imagery operations due to technical problems which are believed to involve the camera electronics. The satellite began to experience a problem affecting its image quality on Sunday, March 4, 2007.
On April 23, 2007 GeoEye, Inc. filed a Form 8-K to announce that its OrbView-3 satellite is permanently out of service. Form 8-K is a report required to be filed by public companies with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act Though GeoEye remains in control of the satellite, it no longer produces usable imagery. [1][2]
ORBVIEW-2
Launched in 1997 by ORBIMAGE, OrbView-2 collects color imagery of the Earth's entire land and ocean surfaces on a daily basis. Commercial fishing vessels use OrbView-2 data for detecting oceanographic conditions used to create fishing maps. The satellite also provides broad-area coverage in 2,800 kilometer-wide swaths, which are routinely used in naval operations, environmental monitoring, and global crop assessment applications. OrbView-2 carries NASA's SeaWiFS sensor. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program SeaWiFS stands for Sea -viewing Wi de '''F'''ield-of-view S ensor OrbView-2 is operated out of Dulles, Virginia.
GeoEye-1
On 2004-12-01 General Dynamics C4 Systems announced it had been awarded a contract worth approximately $209 million to build the OrbView-5 satellite. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican General Dynamics Corporation ( is a defense conglomerate formed by Mergers and Divestitures and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest Defense contractor [3] The satellite, now known as GeoEye-1, is scheduled for launch August 22, 2008 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [4] It will provide 41 cm panchromatic and 1. 65 meter multispectral imagery in 15. 2km swaths. This satellite will also pass a given longitude at 10:30 AM local time, and will be able to image up to 60 degrees off nadir. GeoEye-1 will be operated out of Dulles, Virginia.
Aerial imagery
GeoEye expanded into aerial imagery in March 2007, with the purchase of MJ Harden from General Electric Company. [5] MJ Harden, based in Mission, KS, is now a wholly owned subsidiary that operates two aircraft that carry a digital mapping camera (DMC) and a sophisticated LiDAR imaging system. Mission is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. The population was 9727 at the 2000 census. LIDAR ( Li ght D etection a nd R anging is an optical remote sensing technology that measures properties of scattered light to find range and/or
Regional affiliates
- Space Imaging Middle East
- Japan Space Imaging
- Inta Spaceturk
- European Space Imaging
References
- ^ OrbView 3 Satellite Malfunctions
- ^ SEC Form 8-K Regarding Orbview-3 Technical Problem
- ^ General Dynamics to Build Satellite to Improve U.S. Government Access to High-Resolution Earth Imagery. Space Imaging Middle East LLC (SIME is a regional affiliate of GeoEye GD.
- ^ GeoEye-1 Launch Details. GeoEye.
- ^ GeoEye Acquires MJ Harden Aerial Business From GE Oil & Gas
External links
- ImageSearch - Search for GeoEye satellite imagery online
- Gallery - GeoEye Image Gallery
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