GeoEye Image Pack for Esri ELA Customers

Small governments, public safety organisations and utilities rely on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and imagery to effectively perform regular activities within tight budgets, such as urban planning, economic development and public works.

Esri programmatic ELAs are low cost, pre-packaged agreements for small municipal and county governments, public safety agencies and utilities that enable them to put an ArcGIS system in place, quickly and easily. The GeoEye Image Pack has a three-year term license and delivers the "best available view" for sub-metre, high-resolution imagery products. New collection and event options are available if no archive data exists or if a customer is responding to a crisis or planning for a major event. The product is comprised of data from GeoEye's high-resolution satellites, GeoEye-1 and IKONOS, and aerial imagery from MJ Harden, a GeoEye company.

Jack Dangermond, Esri's president and founder, commented that GeoEye and Esri have been working together to improve the experience of their customers and make GeoEye's imagery products readily accessible to Esri ArcGIS users.

Chris Tully, GeoEye's senior vice president of Sales, said, " This offering will make GeoEye imagery available and affordable for small municipalities and utilities. Public safety organisations will also benefit from using GeoEye's high-resolution imagery for their local emergency planning and response activities, in much the same way as we have seen our larger customers successfully use GeoEye imagery in disaster response during several major crises already this year."