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NEAT has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Air Force to use a GEODSS telescope located on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. GEODSS stands for Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance and these wide field Air Force telescopes were designed to optically observe Earth orbital spacecraft. The NEAT team designed a CCD camera and computer system for the GEODSS telescope. The CCD camera format is 4096 x 4096 pixels and the field of view is 1.2 x 1.6 degrees.
Beginning in April 2001, the 1.2 meter aperture Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory was also put into service to discover and track near-Earth objects. This telescope is equipped with three cameras, each of which has its own 4096x4096 CCD array. This is the telescope that produced the images leading to the discovery of Quaoar in 2002.