Google buy GeoEye to provide high-resolution satellite images of geographical photos

September 1, Google has signed an agreement and GeoEye, GeoEye will provide Google satellite images.

GeoEye corporate communications and marketing vice president Mark Brender said, in accordance with the agreement, Google will be the exclusive satellite picture GeoEye use the site. Google Earth service and the map in both the use of satellite images.

It is learnt that the six days later, GeoEye will Vandenberg Air Force Base in California will be applied to Google launched a satellite, rocket shell will appear Google logo.

GeoEye-1 satellite will orbit the Earth 423 kilometers, it can collect for the accuracy of 41 cm image. But according to GeoEye and the U.S. government's agreement, Google can only use 50 cm accuracy of image data.

The satellite can be collected daily compared with New Mexico such a large area of the image region.

Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz said: "GeoEye-1 will provide the highest ground available in the market definition color picture, it will provide very precise geographical location. General commercial satellites for the resolution of 60 centimeters, GeoEye-1 will help us to achieve For the world as far as possible to provide high-resolution pictures of the target. "

ITT is responsible for the construction of the satellite images subsystems, General Dynamics is the satellite of the main contractor. GeoEye also signed an agreement with ITT, the latter will GeoEye-2 satellite image development system, the satellite programme in 2011 or 2012 launch. ITT has said, GeoEye-2 satellite image clarity will reach 25 cm.

Google Earth can be present in each pixel of the image showed 15 square meters, enough to see large-scale landscape users.