GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has released the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its recently launched GeoEye-1 satellite. The satellite has been undergoing calibration and check-out since it was launched on September 6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Company will start selling GeoEye-1 imagery products later this fall. GeoEye-1 simultaneously collects 0.41-meter ground resolution black-and-white imagery in the panchromatic mode and 1.65-meter color (multispectral). This first image showing Kutztown University, located midway between Reading and Allentown, Pennyslvania, was produced by fusing the satellite's panchromatic and multispectral data to produce a high-quality, true-color half-meter resolution image. Though the satellite collects imagery at 0.41-meter ground resolution, due to U.S. licensing restrictions, commercial customers will only get access to imagery that has been processed to half-meter ground resolution.