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GeoEye-1 Imager

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Four-band multispectral plus panchromatic pushbroom imager on the GeoEye-1 satellite, operated by Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence / DigitalGlobe). Designed by GeoEye, built on a General Dynamics SA-200HP spacecraft. Launched 6 September 2008. Panchromatic GSD 0.41 m at nadir (450-900 nm); 4-band multispectral GSD 1.64 m at nadir covering Blue, Green, Red, Near-IR (450-920 nm). 15.2 km swath at nadir. Extended operational service since design life expired September 2015. The GeoEye-1 imager was the highest-resolution commercial imaging sensor at time of launch in 2008.

Sensor

The GeoEye-1 Imager (GIS) is a five-band pushbroom imaging spectrometer on the GeoEye-1 satellite, operated by Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence / DigitalGlobe). Designed by GeoEye and built on a General Dynamics SA-200HP spacecraft, it launched on 6 September 2008.^[1]

The panchromatic channel covers 450-900 nm at 0.41 m ground sample distance (GSD) at nadir. Four multispectral channels cover Blue (450-510 nm), Green (520-580 nm), Red (655-690 nm), and Near-IR (780-920 nm), with GSD figures of 1.64 m^[2] and 1.65 m^[3] at nadir. Swath width is 15.2 km at nadir.^[2]

The instrument reached its design life in September 2015 and has continued in extended operational service.

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Sources

[1]CEOS EO Handbook instrument summary: GIS on GeoEye-1community2026-05-25
[2]GeoEye-1, ESA EO Gateway mission recordcommunity2026-05-25
[3]GeoEye-1 Fact Sheetoperator datasheet2026-05-25

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GeoEye-1 Imager. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-25. https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/geoeye-1-imager (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:products:sensor:geoeye-1-imager,
  title = {GeoEye-1 Imager},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-25. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/geoeye-1-imager}
}