Deimos Imaging is a Spanish company which operates a complete

Remote Sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...

system. The system comprises the satellites

Deimos-1 Deimos-1 is a Spanish Earth imaging satellite which is operated by Deimos Imaging who commercializes its imagery directly but also has distribution agreements with other entities like Astrium GEO and DMC International Imaging. History It was c ...

and

Deimos-2 Deimos-2 is a Spanish remote sensing Earth observation satellite built for Elecnor Deimos under an agreement with Satrec Initiative, a satellite manufacturing company in South Korea. The Earth observation system was developed by Elecnor Deimos, w ...

, the ground stations at Boecillo near

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and

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near Ciudad Real, the reception hardware hosted at KSAT,

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, and Inuvik and kiruna at SSC and an image processing laboratory with generation of agricultural and environment products also at Boecillo.

satellite has been operational since its launch on 29 July 2009 Lanzamiento del satélite
and the company has been commercializing imagery ever since. The goal of the company is to provide imagery data globally at the highest quality standards.http://calval.cr.usgs.gov/JACIE_files/JACIE11/Presentations/WedAM/1115_Pirondini_JACIE_11.107.pdf “Deimos-1 Absolute Calibration and Data Validation,” 10th Annual JACIE ( Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation) Workshop, March 29–31, 2011, Boulder CO, USA 19 June 2014,

was launched as well.

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Company web page
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