With the GeoEye-1 satellite's successful launch on September 6th, GeoEye will be ready to start full commercial operations for GeoEye-1 imaging products a few months after launch. For the next 45- to 60-days, engineering and calibration tests will be completed. GeoEye-1 will have the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system. The satellite will be able to collect images with a ground resolution of 0.41-meters in the panchromatic or black and white mode. GeoEye's operating license from NOAA requires re-sampling the imagery to 0.50-meters resolution for all customers not explicitly granted a waiver by the U.S. Government. GeoEye-1 will collect multispectral or color imagery at 1.65-meter resolution, a factor of two better than existing commercial satellites, with four-band multispectral imaging capabilities (RGB and NIR) that are especially suitable agriculture crop management and forestry.

GeoEye-1 is designed to have better than three-meter 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 in reference to the WGS-84 reference system, without GPS derived ground control points (GCP's). This degree of inherent accuracy will benefit customers requiring the best accuracy possible for commercial imaging, without requiring survey personnel on the ground to establish ground control points prior to Image data acquisition. By using only a couple of ground control points over large areas, sub-meter geospatial position accuracy can be obtained with orthorectification.

GeoEye-1's optical telescope and high-speed digital processing electronics are capable of processing 700 million pixels per second. GeoEye-1's camera allows for side-to-side extensions of the camera's 15.2 kilometer (9.44 miles) wide swath width or multiple images of the same target during a single pass to create stereo images. The GeoEye-1 will collect imagery about 40 percent faster for panchromatic and 25 percent faster for multispectral collections. Together, the Company's IKONOS and GeoEye-1 satellites can collect almost one million square kilometers of imagery per day. For time critical imagery, Satellite Imaging Corporation can now even faster collect and deliver image data to its ever growing customer base.