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Following months of uncertainty over impending budget cuts to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s EnhancedView commercial imagery program, and unsuccessful bids by both companies to acquire one another, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye announced merger plans July 23.

“This brings together a number of pieces that were separate, where each of the two companies had chosen to make investments in a piece of the total puzzle as opposed to making investments across the board,” said Walter Scott, founder of DigitalGlobe and now the company’s chief technology officer, who discussed the announcement with trajectory via phone.

Read the full story via the trajectory magazine website, the new home of the got geoint? blog.

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This week is off to an exciting start for the Geospatial Intelligence Community with the early-morning announcement that commercial imagery giants DigitalGlobe and GeoEye are merging to create what they describe as a “global leader in earth imagery and geospatial analysis.”

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TerraGo Technologies, an Atlanta-based geospatial intellignece software provider, has acquired Geosemble Technologies, a complementary geospatial software provider based in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

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Check out the Monday Morning News Kick Off on the new got geoint? blog. got geoint? can now be read on the website of trajectory, the new official magazine of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.

This week’s kick off includes a look at the rising demand for surveillance from cellpohnes, several industry announcements, and a thoughtful piece on striving for better geospatial intelligence.

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