| Public | DGI |
| Date | 5/09 |
| Website | digitalglobe.com |
| Category | Other |
| Phone | 303.684.4000 |
| Employees | 350 |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Description | Commercial imaging satellites |
DigitalGlobe® was founded in 1992 as an earth imaging and information company. That same year, it was the first company ever to receive a high resolution commercial remote sensing license from the US Government under the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act.
Today, DigitalGlobe employs over 350 people . DigitalGlobe products have uses in market areas such as exploration and production, location based services, city and regional planning, real estate and retail, infrastructure mapping, internet portals, natural resource, environmental and humanitarian monitoring, emergency response planning defense and intelligence and 3D visual simulation.
The company’s third high resolution satellite, WorldView-2 will be ready for launch at the end of 2008.
