GeoEye is a commercial satellite imagery company, formed in 2006 following the acquisition of Space Imaging by ORBIMAGE. GeoEye provides 1-meter satellite imaging to the public, but also receives a significant portion of its income from contracts with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
GeoEye also provides 253 million square kilometers of satellite map images to Microsoft and Yahoo! search engines.
GeoEye's headquarters are in Dulles, Virginia. Satellite Operations are conducted in Dulles, Virginia and in Thornton, Colorado. Locations in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Norman, Oklahoma provide additional image processing. There are multiple ground stations located worldwide.
GeoEye's primary competitors are DigitalGlobe and Spot Image.
