Products :: Geoeye

 

GeoEye is the premier provider of satellite and aerial imagery, geospatial information (information referenced to a specific location), geospatial products, and solutions for the national security community, strategic partners, and commercial customers helping them better map, measure and monitor the world. GeoEye's world is one seen through our Earth imaging satellites—IKONOS and OrbView-2, two mapping aircraft, and a global network of regional partners and satellite receiving ground stations. GeoEye's geospatial information supports key industries, including national intelligence, defense and security, air and marine transportation, oil and gas, environmental monitoring, on-line mapping, insurance and risk management, urban planning and emergency preparedness.

GeoEye categorizes its imagery products according to resolution and positional accuracy, which is an assessment of the closeness of the object's location in relation to its true position on the Earth's surface. Location error is defined in relation to a confidence level (i.e., range of error) of 90% (CE90)—meaning that the object's location is represented on the image, within the stated accuracy, 90% of the time.

The CE90 accuracy scale can be related to Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) as well as the U.S. National Map Accuracy Standards (NMAS).

.: Satellite Imagery Products

 

Simple and Clear. Geo. GeoProfessional. GeoStereo. The new product line makes it easy to get the accuracy that you need with the options you want!

As your trusted imagery experts, we offer a wide range of sub-meter imagery product levels intended to match your specific area of interest—anywhere in the world.

 

Product Applications At-a-Glance :

Geo:

 

 

The foundation of the GeoEye imagery product line, the Geo, is a radiometrically corrected map oriented image suitable for a wide range of uses. In addition to being suitable for visualization and monitoring applications, the Geo is shipped with the sensor camera model in rational polynomial coefficient (RPC) format. This camera model maps the respective ground coordinates to image product coordinates. Block adjustment, ortho-rectification, and other photogrammetric processing can be performed with the RPC camera model. This product, coupled with a digital elevation model (DEM), permits skilled users to make their own orthorectified products using standard commercial software and available data sets. Geo imagery products are available as panchromatic, multispectral, and pan-sharpened color imagery.

Geo Professional:

 

 

GeoProfessional products are orthorectified (terrain corrected) by GeoEye’s staff of experienced production personnel using proprietary processes perfected in our production facilities and optimized to the data collected by GeoEye satellites. The ortho-rectification process employed by GeoEye enables us to quickly deliver the most accurate and precise terrain corrected multispectral products available from a satellite platform. Available in various levels of accuracy, GeoProfessional, Precision and PrecisionPlus, these products are suitable for feature extraction, change detection, base mapping and other similar applications. GeoProfessional imagery products are available as panchromatic, multispectral, and pan-sharpened color imagery.

 

Geo Stereo:

 
 

Providing a strong base for three-dimensional feature recognition, extraction and exploitation, the GeoStereo product provides two images with stereo geometry to support a wide range of stereo imagery applications such as DEM creation, building height extraction, spatial layers, and three-dimensional feature extraction. Stereo products in epipolar or map projections provide RPC camera model data. The RPC camera model supports block adjustment, three-dimensional stereo extraction, DEM generation, ortho-rectification, and other photogrammetric operations. GeoStereo imagery products are available as panchromatic, multispectral, and pan-sharpened color imagery

 

.:Satellite Imagery :
.: IKONOS .: GeoEye-1

GeoEye first made history with the IKONOS satellite launch almost ten years ago.

IKONOS, derived from the Greek word for image, is the world's first commercial satellite able to collect black-and-white (panchromatic) images with 1-meter resolution and multispectral imagery with 4-meter resolution. Imagery from both sensors can be merged to create 1-meter color imagery (pan-sharpened). The more than 300 million square kilometers of imagery that IKONOS has collected over every continent is being used for national security, military mapping, air and marine transportation, and by regional and local governments

 

GeoEye will again make history with the upcoming launch of GeoEye-1—the world's highest resolution commercial earth-imaging satellite.

GeoEye-1 will be equipped with the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial satellite system. It will offer unprecedented spatial resolution by simultaneously acquiring 41 cm panchromatic and 165 cm multispectral imagery.

The detail and geospatial accuracy of GeoEye-1 imagery will further expand applications for satellite imagery in every commercial and government market sector.

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.: Product Specifications At-a-Glance:

 

 

.:GeoEye-1 and IKONOS Feature Comparison

 

 

.: News:

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Mediante un relevamiento catastral que incluyó la utilización de imágenes Ikonos Geo Stereo en Tafí del Valle, Tucumán, se determinó que más de 170.000 m2 no fueron declarados por sus propietarios. En su mayoría se trata de residencias edificadas o ampliadas en los últimos años.

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En una reciente nota periodística publicada el 27 de agosto pasado en el Diario La Nación, el Subsecretario de Ingresos Públicos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Santiago Montoya, destacaba que la Dirección de Rentas detectó propiedades no declaradas por casi 187 millones de pesos a través de la utilización del programa Google Earth.

El objetivo de esta nota es presentar a nuestros clientes y usuarios una descripción y comparación de ambos métodos, incluyendo alcances, limitaciones, equipamientos, costos, y otras consideraciones.

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