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RapidEye
RapidEye is a leading provider of quality high-resolution satellite imagery and derived geo-information products. With a constellation of five Earth Observation satellites, RapidEye images over 4 million square kilometers of Earth every day, and anticipates an archive consisting of over 3 billion square kilometers of EO data by early 2012. With an unprecedented combination of wide area repetitive coverage and five meter pixel size multi-spectral imagery, RapidEye is a natural choice for many industries and government agencies. Since 2004, RapidEye has been headquartered in Brandenburg, Germany and has additional offices in Canada and the United States.
RapidEye's advantages:
- Five satellites collecting up to 4 million km² of imagery every day
- Five spectral bands (Red ,Green, Blue, Near Infrared, Red Edge)
- Five meter pixel sized imagery
- Daily revisit capabilities to any location on earth
- Wide area coverage (77 km wide swath width)
- Two levels of Satellite Image Products available
- Data will easily integrate into any GIS system
Status: On-going
Start Date: 29/08/08
