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Kodak Announces Aerial Imagery Available Through Autodesk

pointA.autodesk.com

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., February 4, 2002-Eastman Kodak Company’s Commercial and Government Systems (C&GS) unit today announced they have signed an agreement to make available their imagery throughAutodesk, Inc.’s personal customer web site, Point A. . This agreement expands the availability of Kodak’s online earth image offering, one of the largest databases of high-resolution aerial imagery, to the Autodesk Point A web site to improve Autodesk customers’ efficiency by streamlining their work processes and providing access to materials that serve as the foundation for their design work.

Under the terms of the agreement, Autodesk Point A members Kodak’s online earth image offering through Autodesk Point A, (http://pointA.autodesk.com). The Autodesk Point A web site serves as a personal, global access point to Autodesk services and information on the Internet, and offers exclusive access to design features and resources. The site extends the functionality of Autodesk software to the Internet, offering additional features such as customized home pages and newsletters, tips and techniques, and third-party data and resources.

Citipix imagery products include orthorectified digital mosaic images at both six-inch and 12-inch ground resolution. Print formats include 10 x 10, 20 x2 4, 40 x 42” color and black and white KODAK prints. Citipix imagery meets NMAS 1200 spec for accuracy.

“Our Kodak Citipix aerial imagery helps provide answers to customers’ very distinct business questions,” said Max Elbaz, Chief Operating Office &Vice President, Kodak Global Imaging Inc., a subsidiary Eastman Kodak Company., Eastman Kodak Company. “Whether they need to correctly position a cell tower or analyze the path of a tornado to adjust an insurance claim, our distribution partnerships are yet another avenue for customers to obtain the high quality aerial images they need”.

“Offering Kodak Citipix imagery to our users who depend on quality images to produce maps and to deliver on projects for their customers, reflects our commitment to Internet-based solutions that streamline workflow, increase design process efficiencies and reduce operational expenses,” said Bruce Polderman, director of DSD Online Services for Autodesk.

This agreement is Kodak’s most recent contribution to infoimaging - a $225 billion industry created by the convergence of images and information technology. Three markets characterize the infoimaging industry: devices, infrastructure, and services and media, such as Kodak Citipix imagery.

Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures -- for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in “infoimaging” -- a $225 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and PDAs), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with sales last year of $13.2 billion, is organized into four major businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering flat-panel displays, optics and sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services.

Kodak's Commercial & Government Systems (C&GS) unit provides innovative infoimaging solutions for business and government market needs. This includes aerial and industrial film products and services; digital imaging systems for commercial imaging satellites; optical systems for land and space telescopes; remote-sensing imaging products, services and systems

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