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GeoEye, Inc. has reported the successful launch and deployment of GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution, commercial Earth-imaging satellite. GeoEye's ground station in Norway relayed the downlink signal it received from GeoEye-1 confirming that the satellite successfully separated from the second stage of the launch vehicle and began automatically initializing its onboard systems.
Read MoreHurricane Ike was still a Category 4 storm when these photos were taken from the International Space Station's vantage point of 220 miles above the Earth.
Read MoreSpot Image Corp. has been named a Google Earth Enterprise Partner, and will leverage this new partnership with Google to deliver imagery through current and planned web-based solutions to its clients through Google Earth. What this translates out to mean is that Spot Image Corp. will develop ‘ready-to-use’ image data sets for Google Earth and Google Earth Enterprise users in addition to creating a variety of advanced new information services and solutions. Spot Image Corp. plans to tap into the Google Earth Enterprise architecture to integrate the rich information content of SPOT satellite imagery into maps (2D) and Globes (3D).
Read MoreBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun the integration of the completed imaging instrument for the next-generation WorldView-2 commercial imaging satellite being built for DigitalGlobe scheduled to be launched in the third quarter of 2009. WorldView-2 will expand DigitalGlobe’s collection capabilities by nearly one million square kilometers per day, enable intra-day revisits to a specific geographic area, and enhance DigitalGlobe’s ability to collect up-to-date imagery for customer needs.
Read MoreGeoEye-1 satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, has a big job ahead of it after its launch on Thursday, September 4, from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California. The satellite will be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond but also map the location of an object that size to within about nine feet (three meters) of its true location on the surface of the Earth without need for ground control points. Together, GeoEye's IKONOS and GeoEye-1 satellites can collect almost one million square kilometers of imagery per day.
Read MoreGeoEye, a provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, has provided high-resolution images taken from its commercial Earth-imaging IKONOS satellite for integration into Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X for the Xbox 360 system, the Sony PLAYSTATION 3, and on Windows-based PC.
Read MoreHundreds of guests and employees attended an event featuring U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and California's Lt. Governor John Garamendi and Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) chairman and CEO Ronald D. Sugar to highlight the contributions Earth observation satellites are making to global climate change monitoring.
Read MoreSenior federal officials today in Seattle commissioned the Okeanos Explorer, the first federal ship solely dedicated to exploring the ocean. A former U.S. Navy surveillance vessel, Okeanos Explorer, was transferred to NOAA in 2004 and converted to perform ocean exploration.
Read MoreHi tech at its best will be produced by a team effort of satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe, and expert modelling and simulation services AEgis Technologies Group to provide NBC Universal with access to a 3D digital model of Beijing. This will occur during the network’s broadcasts of the Olympic Games.
Read MoreAt the annual ESRI International User Conference, DigitalGlobe announced the release of ImageConnect: Global, the most extensive online collection of high resolution International imagery available in the world. This new offering provides instant online access to 30.5 million sq km2 of premium imagery with in-depth coverage of 36 countries worldwide, much of which is not available through other web services or commercial portals.
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