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3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
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NOTE 1.General Information

 

DigitalGlobe, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“DigitalGlobe,” and “Company”), is a leading global provider of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analysis. Sourced from its own advanced satellite constellation and third-party providers, DigitalGlobe’s imagery solutions and other services provide customers with accurate and mission-critical information about our changing planet, and support a wide variety of uses, including mission-planning, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, and infrastructure management. Additionally, hundreds of developers are building new applications and machine learning algorithms on DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform and in the Company’s recently expanded Services business. Each day users depend on DigitalGlobe to better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time.

 

DigitalGlobe’s principal customers include U.S. and foreign governments, location-based services (“LBS”) providers, and those in energy and other industry verticals. The imagery that forms the foundation of the Company’s products, services and analysis is collected daily from DigitalGlobe’s constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites and maintained in the Company’s imagery archives (“ImageLibrary”).