New IKONOS Products Help Businesses See the World With One-Meter Resolution Color Imagery from Space

These three distinct products, CARTERRA Precision, CARTERRA Reference and
CARTERRA Geo, offer different levels of mapping accuracy depending on the
customer’s project and cost requirements.
Space Imaging announced earlier
this year that one-meter black-and-white and four-meter color resolution
products were for sale under these same product names.
The one-meter color
imagery combines the spatial content of the black and white data with the
color content of the four-meter multispectral (color) data.

“Our one-meter resolution color imagery gives our customers access to
significantly more detail and information about the Earth’s surface than has
ever been available in commercial satellite imagery before,” said Brian
Soliday, vice president of North American sales and marketing for Space
Imaging.

Soliday added, “Because these products offer such a wide range of mapping
capabilities, businesses can take advantage of them for a variety of every-day
applications ranging from urban planning and rapid emergency response to real
estate development, insurance assessments and the creation of image backdrops
for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases.”

“Customers can order images of any geographic location in the world.
Our
only limitation is cloud cover,” said Conrad Mueller, Space Imaging’s vice
president of international sales and marketing. “Teamed with our Regional
Affiliates located worldwide, we have the advantage of providing these
products to customers quickly and with local customer service.”

Product Offerings

One-meter resolution color CARTERRA products from IKONOS offer a wide
range of mapping capabilities depending on the scope of the customer’s
project, mapping requirements and cost requirements:

CARTERRA Precision products are designed for provincial, state and local
government projects, as well as transportation, utilities, telecommunications,
real estate and other traditional geographic applications.
These products are
ideally suited for applications requiring a high degree of positional
accuracy, such as base mapping, cadastral mapping, city planning, geographic
information system (GIS) updates, change management, site selection and
development. This product is produced using ground control and digital
elevation models. It has a four-meter horizontal accuracy (CE 90%) and meets
1:4800 U.S. National Map Accuracy Standards (NMAS). Prices range from
$66 – $99/sqkm ($170 – $254/sqmi) for North America (with a minimum order of
$1,000).
Price varies depending on the processing and license required.

CARTERRA Reference products are ideally suited for applications where
quick delivery and less positional accuracy is crucial, including large-area
or regional mapping, GIS backdrops, real estate planning, change monitoring,
agricultural monitoring, site evaluation, insurance assessments, natural
disaster assessments, and other applications.
This product has a horizontal
accuracy of 25 meters (CE 90%) and meets 1:50,000 US. NMAS.
Prices range from
$29 – $44/sqkm ($75 – $112/sqmi) for North America (with a minimum order of
$1,000).
Price varies depending on the processing and license required.

CARTERRA Geo products are ideal for projects not requiring a high degree
of positional accuracy but which require quick delivery such as emergency
response, agriculture productivity monitoring and media reporting.
Prices
range from $12 – $17/sqkm ($30 – $45/sqmi) for North America (with a minimum
order of $1,000).
Price varies depending on the processing and license
required.

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 (www.spaceimaging.com) under “Find a Reseller.”
When placing an order, customers will be asked to supply the latitude and
longitude coordinates identifying their area of interest.
International
pricing is available on the Space Imaging Web site and from Space Imaging’s
Regional Affiliates, located in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
International coverage requires customer-provided ground control, or ground
control may be obtained by Space Imaging in some cases.

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.

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