GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a source of geospatial information and insight, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to partner with Rolta, a global, leading provider of innovative IT solutions. With this new partnership, Rolta gains access to GeoEye’s high-resolution satellite imagery, services and expertise to develop innovative geospatial products and services. Rolta plans to offer these GeoEye-enabled solutions to its customers across high-growth global markets, beginning with India.
This satellite image collected Tuesday December 2, 2008 and provided by GeoEye shows a view of the Taj Mahal Hotel, to the left of the center of the image, on the water, one of the sites of the terror attack which began the night of November 26, in Mumbai, India. The imagery was collected from 423 miles in space by a IKONOS satellite as it moved from north to south over India at 17,000 mph or 4 miles per second.
Today’s military commanders working in digital battlefield environments need intelligent maps derived from geospatial data and map-accurate imagery to make effective command and control decisions in the field. Rolta is exploring opportunities to leverage GeoEye’s imagery service and predictive analytics’ expertise to develop defense and homeland security solutions served from its Geospatial Fusion Platform to help users see, understand and anticipate change when lives are at risk.
Preetha Pulusani, Rolta’s chief strategy officer said, “Rolta has been engaged in providing geospatial solutions for over two decades. Imagery plays a critical role—especially for defense and homeland security— to enable users to rapidly analyze change, visualize impacts and make informed decisions in the field in a timely manner. We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with GeoEye to provide our customers with tools and content to meet their most challenging needs.”
Rolta also plans to develop intelligent 3-D city solutions for commercial users in urban planning, construction and infrastructure development. Ninety percent of the fastest-growing metropolitan economies are located outside North America and Western Europe and in regions such as Southern Asia. Rolta intends to offer these high-growth global markets financially accessible 3-D model solutions developed from GeoEye satellite imagery. Rolta is a leading provider of innovative IT solutions for many vertical segments, including Utilities, Governments, Transportation, Process, Power, Banking and Insurance. These enterprise level solutions are built around Rolta’s intellectual property and domain expertise to offer unique business intelligence for dramatic insights for effective decision making. Rolta’s solutions framework includes Geospatial Fusion™, a suite to integrate disparate spatial and business data; Rolta OneView™, a BI solution for operational excellence; and Rolta iPerspective™, a unique platform for SOA and “Cloud” enablement.
Tony Frazier, GeoEye's senior vice president of Marketing, said, “Geospatial intelligence has become crucial to decision making. We are excited about this partnership and believe that our world-class imagery, information service capabilities and expertise, coupled with Rolta’s product development and IT services track record, will produce innovative geospatial solutions that deliver clear, deep and timely insights to global government and commercial users.”