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SpatialNews.com Press Release
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SPOT's "Virtual Receiving Station" Covers Los Alamos FiresIn a pilot project effort, the imagery is being sent to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center's Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) for processing and potential distribution to government agencies involved in disaster management activities. TEC's emergency response capability adds significantly to this rapid response effort. "Virtual receiving stations allow clients to receive relevant imagery without developing their own infrastructure," explains Gene Colabatistto, president of SPOT Image Corporation. "SPOT has the unique capability to receive time sequence imagery of dynamic events anywhere in the world, on a schedule determined by the client. No one else can offer this capability." SPOT is the only commercial or civil government system with multiple sensors capable of producing and delivering worldwide imagery on a daily basis. This capability has been used to monitor rapidly changing environmental and geopolitical situations worldwide. In these instances, imagery is typically used for base mapping, contingency and evacuation planning, news reporting, disaster monitoring and post-event assessments. Typical clients include defense and civilian agencies, insurance companies, firms with affected assets and other interested parties. SPOT Image Corp. is the U.S. office of the international SPOT system, the world's first commercial Earth observation system. SPOT includes multiple orbiting satellites, 24 ground receiving stations, a worldwide distribution network, and long-term plans to ensure continuity. SPOT 5 is planned for launch in 2001. Since the 1986 launch of SPOT 1, more than 7.5 million images of the Earth have been acquired. SPOT imagery provides a level of image detail, coverage depth, selection options, and temporal range that are not available from any other source.  *CNES WWW.SPOT.COM - September 30, 1999 Three-band multispectral imagery from September 1999. The Rio Grande River clearly snakes through the central eastern area of the scene. The San Pedro and Jemez Mountains cover the western half. The city of Los Alamos lies almost dead center of the image, between the mountains and the river. Lake Cochiti is located at the southern edge of the scene. Santa Fe is located in the southeast corner.
 *CNES WWW.SPOT.COM - May 14, 2000 Four-band multispectral imagery captured May 14, 2000 clearly delineates large smoke plumes from the forest fire. The fire began in Bandelier National Monument (located just northwest of Lake Cochiti) more than a week before
To view fire imagery: http://www.spot.com/spotglobal/usu.htm
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