IKONOS is a commercial earth observation satellite, and was the first to collect publicly available high-resolution imagery at 1-meter and 4-meter resolution. It offers multispectral (MS) and panchromatic (PAN) imagery.
IKONOS imagery began being sold on January 1, 2000.
It derived its name from the Greek term eikōn for image.
It is operated by GeoEye.
Tags:
