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General Information	3 Months Ended
General Information	Mar. 31, 2015
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General Information	NOTE 1.General Information DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of geospatial information products and services sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation and third party providers. Our products and services support users in a wide variety of fields including defense, intelligence and homeland security, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration and infrastructure management. Each day users depend on DigitalGlobe’s data, information, technology and expertise to better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time. Our principal customers include U.S. and foreign governments, defense and intelligence providers, location-based services (“LBS”) providers, and those in energy and other industry verticals. The imagery that forms the foundation of our products, services and analysis is collected daily from our constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites and maintained in our ImageLibrary. We believe that our ImageLibrary is the largest, most up-to-date and comprehensive archive of high-resolution earth imagery commercially available, containing more than 5.6 billion square kilometers of imagery, an area the equivalent of 37 times the landmass of the earth, accumulated since 1999. As of March 31, 2015, our collection capacity capability was approximately 1.4 billion square kilometers of imagery per year, or the equivalent of roughly nine times the earth’s land surface area, and offers intraday revisit around the globe.