GeoEye-1 was launched in September 2008, and after some five months of commissioning commenced commercial operations in February, 2009. With its 0.41m panchromatic and 1.65m multispectral resolution, GeoEye-1 represents a further step along the way to higher resolution capabilities for remote sensing satellites. Given experiences with precise georeferencing from its sister satellite, IKONOS, in...

The Geoeye-1 satellite, launched in September 2008, is able to acquire imagery in panchromatic mode, with a spatial resolution of 0.41 m at nadir, offering the most powerful way to obtain detailed imagery actually commercially available. The aim of the work is to evaluate the quality of the GeoEye-1 products through radiometric and geometric analysis; the area test is the city of Rome. Radiomet...