AAMHatch has commenced commercial operations for GeoEye satellite technology.
The company is the exclusive partner for GeoEye in the Oceania region.
AAMHatch says GeoEye-1 can image any region of the Earth and is expected to be used by a range of industries including mining.
The satellite was launched in September 2008 and is the sister satellite to IKONOS which has been supplying 0.8m imagery for the past several years.
The satellite imagery products from AAMHatch are now available in 0.5m, 0.8m and 3.2m ground resolutions.
Digital imagery products are available in colour and black and white. Colour imagery comprises four bands: blue, green, red and near-infrared.
GeoEye-1’s improved spatial accuracy of 3m, excluding terrain effects without the need for any ground control, is a much anticipated improvement compared to other existing commercial satellite systems.
The supplier says it expects its customers to not only be impressed with this improved pixel resolution and higher spatial accuracy, but also with the much quicker turn-around time to deliver this imagery.
GeoEye-1 is currently the highest resolution Earth imaging colour satellite commercially available.