Ikonos High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Contact us for a scene search -- just send the Lat / Long coordinates (Decimal.Degrees or Degrees - Minutes - Seconds) for the Upper Right and Lower Left corners of the area you want to cover, a center point for your project area with a buffer in km or a Lat / Long WGS84 .shp file (only one polygon per .shp, 50 vertices or less. minimum width of 5km). Please also include which product you're interested in, how you'd like to use the imagery and what type of GIS / remote sensing software you use. Please note that the minimum order for Ikonos high-resolution satellite imagery is between $343 - $1,800 USD (depending on region and availability of archived data), the minimum order for some international regions is higher.

Ikonos high-resolution (1m) satellite image. Also available: IRS 5m satellite imagery, Landsat 7 15m / 30m satellite imagery and QuickBird high-resolution satellite imagery.  Visit our Image Gallery for sample graphics.

Ikonos High-Resolution 1-meter & 4-meter Satellite Imagery, Pricing per Sq. Km.
Please note that pricing varies for areas covered by Regional Affiliate Comm Cones (foreign ground receiving stations) -- parts of Asia, Europe, Middle East & NE Africa

IKONOS Notes: PSM = pan-sharpened multi-spectral (from Ikonos 4-meter multi-spectral data), i.e. "Colorized." Minimum order is 100 square km., except for Precision Plus and Stereo products which have a $10,000 minimum order). All prices in $ USD and subject to change with out notice. Cloud cover is guaranteed to be 20% or less. An order is a contiguous area -- linear / corridor areas of interest may be considered non-standard and provided only at higher pricing. Minimum dimension of each side defining area of interest (width) is 5km. All prices listed are for Company/Single-Agency licenses; Corporation/Multi-Agency licenses with more flexible terms are available for an additional 15% charge. PSM products include a choice of 3 bands (true / natural color or false color / infra-red) in one file or 4 bands (R,G,B,NIR) in 4 files (1 3-band GeoTiff or 4 band-separated GeoTiff files). Stereo pairs include a rational polynomial coefficient (RPC) camera model file; each stereo pair contains an image collected at a low elevation angle (> 60°) as well as an image collected at a higher elevation angle (> 72°) with a 30 - 45° convergence (0.54 to 0.83 base-to-height ratio). Reference Stereo has a vertical accuracy of 22m LE90, Precision Stereo has a vertical accuracy of 5m LE90 -- see the table above for horizontal accuracies. Projection options are UTM, State Plane, Albers Conical Equal Area, Oblique Mercator and Lambert Conformal Conic. Datum / Ellipsoid options are WGS 84 or GRS 1980 / NAD 83. Cubic convolution or nearest neighbor re-sampling. Standard deliverables are CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Contact us for large-format color plotting options. Please see detailed product specifications below to help you evaluate which product best meets your needs:

Geo (non-ortho-rectified product): Geo products are rectified to a specified ellipsoid and map projection. The rectification process removes image distortions introduced by the collection geometry and re-samples the imagery to a uniform ground sample distance and a specified map projections -- there is no use of ground control points or digital elevation models. Mosaicing and tonal balancing are not included in the Geo prices listed above, but can be added for an additional charge.

Ortho-rectified Products (Reference, Pro, Precision and Precision Plus): Ortho-rectified to a specified ellipsoid and map projection. The ortho-rectification process removes image distortions introduced by the collection geometry and by relief of the terrain, and re-samples the imagery to a uniform ground sample distance and a user-specified map projection. Precision and Precision Plus, the highest-level accuracy products, requires the use of ground control points (GPS'd photo-identifiable reference points) -- the other ortho-rectified products do not require the use of ground control points. GeoEye will provide ground control points with in the continental US as well as many international areas -- for all other areas customers must contract a land surveyor to obtain ground control points that meet GeoEye specifications (LAND INFO can recommend a land surveyor in many countries). Mosaicing is included in the prices listed above. Precision Plus is not a standard product and is available only on a custom basis. Listed below is additional information concerning precision of the various products, though it's important to note that the level of correction (precision) has no effect on the amount of detail (spatial content described by the resolution of the image), and that scales are more applicable to traditional (hard-copy) cartographic products -- as digital imagery can be viewed and utilized at various map scales, metric accuracy is a more relevant description of an image's precision. NMAS stands for National Map Accuracy Standards (established by the US government).

Reference: 11.8m RMS. Horizontal 25m CE 90%, Vertical 22m LE 90%. Meets 1:50,000 NMAS (90% of the objects in the image are within 25m of their real-world position).
Pro: 4.8m RMS. Horizontal 10m CE 90%, Vertical 8m LE 90%. Meets 1:12,000 NMAS (90% of the objects in the image are within 10m of their real-world position).
Precision: 1.9m RMS. Horizontal 4m CE 90%, Vertical 4m LE 90%. Meets 1:4,800 NMAS (90% of the objects in the image are within 4m of their real-world position).
Precision Plus: (only available outside of North America) 0.9m RMS. Horizontal 2m CE 90%, Vertical 2m LE 90%. Meets 1:2,400 NMAS (90% of the objects in the image are within 2m of their real-world position).

* Note: Product accuracy is controlled by CE90 values, corresponding RMSE values are shown for reference only.

Ikonos Turn-Around Times:

Geo, Geo Ortho Kit & Reference Stereo (new collection): 60 days for areas 500 KM² and less, 90 days for 500 to 5000 KM² areas, 120 days for 5000 KM² - 10,000 KM² areas -- larger areas require a custom quote. Tasking (rush) fees for an image collection window of 7 - 59 days are $3,000 plus 20% of the order total.
Geo Archive and Geo Ortho Kit Archive: 10 business day turn-around time.
Reference & Pro: 90 days for areas 5000 KM² and less, 150 days for areas 5000 KM² - 10,000 KM² -- larger areas require a custom quote.
Precision, Precision Plus & Precision Stereo: 120 days for areas 5000 KM² and less, 150 days for areas 5000 KM² - 10,000 KM² -- larger areas require a custom quote.