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06 Oct 2009

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PODCAST: Mr. Matt O’Connell, GeoEye’s Chief Executive Officer and USGIF Board Member

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oconnellGeoEye is one of the geospatial industry’s imagery experts. The company is known for delivering exceptional, compelling and actionable satellite images — from pretty much every important event happening around the globe. Well, we were fortunate enough to speak with Mr. Matt O’Connell, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, of GeoEye last week about GeoEye, its GeoEye-1 satellite one-year anniversary, the company’s plans for GEOINT 2009 and much more. Scroll down to listen to the podcast.

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15 Sep 2009

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GeoEye Celebrates GeoEye-1 Satellite’s First Year in Space

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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.”

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23 Mar 2009

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Check Out First GeoEye-1 Imagery on Google

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As many of you may have seen last week, USGIF member, GeoEye made available its first high-resolution imagery from its GeoEye-1 satellite on Google Earth. We recommend you peruse the Google Earth preview site to check out the images. In addition, we have pulled a few key images for your enjoyment below.

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23 Feb 2009

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Press Release: GeoEye-1 Satellite Attains Full Operational Capability Certification From the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

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This is certainly significant news for USGIF member, GeoEye. The company’s GeoEye-1 satellite has been certified as meeting their stringent requirements for quality, accuracy and resolution from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). As such, GeoEye is now delivering GeoEye-1 sub-half-meter ground resolution satellite imagery to the NGA. Congrats to GeoEye on this certification. Below is the full press release.

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