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Yesterday, GeoEye announced the one-year launch anniversary of GeoEye-1, its ultra high resolution and amazingly accurate commercial Earth-imaging satellite. On September 8, 2008, the satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and according to Bill Schuster, GeoEye’s Chief Operating Officer, “The past year has been an exciting and rewarding one for GeoEye. With the launch of GeoEye-1 last September, we put into service the world’s most advanced commercial imagery satellite, which is delivering the highest resolution, most accurate color satellite imagery available today.”

In celebration of this Sept. 6 anniversary, GeoEye tasked the GeoEye-1 satellite to collect a half-meter resolution image of Madrid, Spain on Sept. 7. The full high-resolution image is featured on GeoEye’s corporate home page, along with other stunning images including the 2009 Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada; Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; construction of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic venues, British Colombia; and San Francisco Bay in northern California.

Since its launch, GeoEye-1 has imaged every continent in the world and chronicled several noteworthy events this year, including President Obama’s inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C. in January. In April, GeoEye-1 photographed a North Korean missile facility just moments before the launch of a long-range missile. The GeoEye-1 satellite has collected approximately 54 million square kilometers of imagery and taken over 200,000 images since its launch.

Way to go GeoEye!

Tags: Commercial Satellite Imagery, GeoEye, GeoEye One Year Anniversary, GeoEye-1 satellite, GEOINT 2009, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, USGIF