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Space Imaging Significantly Reduces North American Landsat PricesDENVER, June 12 -- Space Imaging, the world's leader in providing commercial markets with Earth information for a variety of business applications, has announced a significant reduction in the price of its Landsat satellite imagery. With the new reduced pricing, organizations will be able to monitor, map and measure changes to the Earth's surface more regularly and more affordably than ever before. The new Landsat pricing ranges from $600-$1675 for an image covering a 185 km x 170 km area. The range varies according to how much processing is required to meet the customer's mapping needs. Previous prices ranged from $2500-$3350 for the same geographic area. These new prices, a saving of up to 76 percent, apply to North American imagery collected by Space Imaging. The new pricing is effective immediately. "The reduction in Landsat pricing offers long-standing customers an incentive for continuing to purchase these widely used products," said Brian Soliday, Space Imaging's vice president of North American sales and marketing. "It also responds to customer demand for more affordable pricing for a product that helps customers make better decisions about the changing Earth." Soliday added that customers most impacted by this new pricing structure are those needing to monitor large areas of land on a regular basis. Landsat imagery has a resolution of 30 meters and is produced as multispectral (color) imagery. It is used by environmental management firms, mapping agencies, regional planning agencies, and agribusiness to monitor environmental conditions, map large land masses, evaluate ecological change, assess large-scale urban growth and measure vegetation health. The imagery can be used for change-over-time analysis to keep track of major changes to the Earth's surface. Space Imaging markets Landsat satellite imagery under the company's CARTERRA(TM) brand name. The imagery complements a wide array of other satellite and aerial imagery products and services Space Imaging sells. One customer, Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat), already has plans to purchase a significant amount of Landsat data based on the new pricing structure. "With Landsat 5 collection offset by eight days from the Landsat 7 satellite the frequency of coverage is effectively doubled. Frequent coverage is very important for our agriculture monitoring applications. Both systems are now comparably priced and any disincentives have been removed. We think this is an excellent move by Space Imaging," said Roger Mitchell, vice president Program Development for EarthSat. Ordering CARTERRA Products Customers wishing to place an order may call the Customer Service Center at 301-552-0537 or 800-232-9037 between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. EST. Alternatively, customers may contact a North American or an international Space Imaging reseller. Information about contacting resellers is located on the Space Imaging Web site (http://www.spaceimaging.com) under "Find a Reseller." About Space Imaging Space Imaging is a leading supplier of space imagery, aerial photography, mapping services, and derivative geographic information products and services. The company launched the world's first and only one-meter resolution, commercial imaging satellite, IKONOS, on Sept. 24, 1999. Space Imaging also collects and/or distributes Earth imagery from the Indian Remote Sensing satellites, the U.S. Landsat, Canada's RADARSAT and the European Space Agency's ERS satellites. In addition, Space Imaging distributes imagery from the Japanese JERS imaging system archive. The company also delivers aerial-derived imagery products collected by its own Digital Airborne Imaging System (DAIS-1(TM)). Space Imaging markets its wide-ranging Earth image products under the CARTERRA(TM) brand name. www.spaceimaging.com
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