Geospatial Imagery Uses

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GeoEye's high-resolution imagery products create a highly-accurate digital foundation of geospatial data. Merging GeoEye’s current and historical satellite imagery with other layers of information within geospatial information systems allows professionals across the world to display location information in a very real and contextual way. This means better decisions can be made across a range of industries. Location matters and everything has to be somewhere!

In the face of disaster, GeoEye imagery is often provided free of charge for use by emergency first responders, relief agencies, governments and the media. Our imagery can be used as a base map to produce multiple-layer relief maps to assist with damage assessment, route planning and other crucial aspects of relief efforts.

GeoEye's imaging and imaging-derived products serve a wide variety of applications for:

  • Defense
  • National and Homeland Security
  • Disaster Response
  • Air and Marine Transportation
  • Oil and Gas
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Mapping and Location-based Services
  • State and Local Government
  • Insurance and Risk Management
  • Agriculture
  • Natural Resources and Environmental Monitoring

GeoEye Satellite Constellation

GeoEye owns and operates an extensive constellation of Earth-imaging satellites, mapping aircraft and an international network of ground stations. Visit GeoEye.com to learn more.

Image Galleries on GeoEye.com

Visit GeoEye’s many galleries that include GeoEye-1 and IKONOS satellite images that are newsworthy or highlight interesting natural and man-made features.

Explore Galleries & Tools

GeoEye-1 orbits the Earth, pole to pole, 15 times a day. See how GeoEye brings you closer to home than ever before in our sample and archive galleries, and find new tools for Google Earth users.