Custom Products

For customers with specialized requirements, GeoEye provides customized processing services that might include final deliverables provided with unique tiling schemes, different file formats, personalized file-naming conventions, and tailored metadata files.

Custom Processing

GeoEye’s custom processing services provide products derived from GeoEye-1 imagery designed to meet specialized client needs. These services use a variety of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software and proprietary utilities, including ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine, and SocetSet.

Frequent requests include file formatting for Geo and Ortho products and custom tiling based on a tonally adjusted orthomosaic. All support files, such as metadata, headers, world files, Shapefiles (usually component), and JPEGs, are updated or re-generated to reflect any changes made to the base product. Files are named using standard conventions, but file-naming conventions can be changed based on need.

File Formats
  • Geotiff (system-generated)
  • NITF 2.0 (system-generated)
  • NITF 2.1
  • MrSid
  • GeoPDF
  • JPG2000
File-Naming Conventions
  • Based on tiling scheme (e.g., quarter quads, 1-degree cells, etc.)
  • Customer-supplied
Custom Tiling
  • Customer-supplied (Shapefile required)
  • Quarter quad (3.75 minutes)
  • Quad (7.5 minutes)
  • 15 minutes
  • 30 minutes
  • One-degree
  • Thirty-degree (same as above)
Non-Standard Projections (examples)
  • False Easting/False Northing
  • Sad 69
  • Clark 1866
Custom Metadata
  • Format specified by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
  • HTML
  • XML
  • .TXT

Custom Shapefiles (in addition to shapefiles that are provided as part of our standard products)

  • Mosaic seamline
  • Custom attributes (such as alternate file names, date-range information, product type, etc.)