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10 Oct 2008
The high-powered GeoEye-1 imaging satellite has captured its first images just four days after being launched into space.
Parent company GeoEye has posted the photos to its gallery page. The first image was taken shortly after the satellite passed over the eastern seaboard of the US and displays the campus of Kutztown University, a small public college in eastern Pennsylvania.
The image, taken some 423 miles above the Earth's surface, displays a clarity which rivals that of an airborne photo. Details such as the logos on the school's football field, tennis courts and individual cars in the parking lot are all visible.
"This image captures what is in fact the very first location the satellite saw when we opened the camera door and started imaging," said GeoEye vice president of operations Brad Peterson.
"We expect the quality of the imagery to be even better as we continue the calibration activity."
The GeoEye-1 satellite will be used for government photography as well as commercial use by Google, which has obtained exclusive rights to the images for its mapping projects.
Google said that it expects to receive the first images for use from GeoEye-1 in a few months.
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DigitalGlobe Also Still With Google
Hi Shaun, Did you see recently that DigitalGlobe exended their relationship to provide Google Earth with imagery as well. Unlike GeoEye's contract which allows them to provide online portal imagery to only Google, DigitalGlobe can provide to Google, Microsoft, etc... Note: I work on the PR team for DigitalGlobe
Posted by: EMilster 10 Oct 2008
Misleading?
The GeoEye-1 gallery is confusing as several of the images they posted are actually described as being from before GeoEye-1 was launched (from 2001 of before and after pictures of an airport in Afghanistan, or Galveston, TX taken in 2005). It is not simply a case of "before and after" comparison photos, as not all of them are of the same geographical areas.
Posted by: MrSatyre 10 Oct 2008