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Jason Horner is with DigitalGlobe, a global provider of earth imagery used for mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, as well as defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies.

"So Digital Globe provides commercial and government satellite imagery. We run a constellation of 5 satellites and produce imagery for various governmental industries and other countries and commercial providers such as Bing and Google.

Oh we captured the inauguration of Barack Obama, we have got pictures of that, gosh I can't remember the name, the thing in Dubai, the tower where they did the Ghost Protocol movie and we use it for emergency response, so for hurricanes, natural events, a lot of interesting uses.

Yeah, so the cameras orbit the earth and they take imagery and we downlink it down through our ground terminals and we produce images and send them out either electronically or on hard physical media.

So what happens in the image collection process is that the satellite gets tasks, we capture the image and then we as the satellite goes across the ground terminal we downlink it, we back hard over our data connections to our production facility in Thornton. The operators produce the imagery perform any post capture image processing algorithms and then we burn it to media or ship it electronically to our end users and in my role with the data warehouse team, what I do is provide business matrix on how fast we are doing that, how accurately we are doing it, how much revenue we are bringing in what expenses we are running into and basically allows the executives insight into how they can optimize resources and revenue."