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December 2000
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Space Imaging Asia Celebrates Grand Opening
Regional Operation Center in Seoul Starts Processing IKONOS Earth Imagery
Denver, Colo., December 12, 2000 - Space Imaging Asia (e-HD.com), a Regional Affiliate of Space Imaging, celebrated its grand opening this month in Seoul, Korea. Space Imaging Asia's regional operation center is now fully capable to task the IKONOS satellite and downlink high-resolution imagery of Earth directly to a ground receiving station. Once the one- and four-meter resolution imagery is collected it is cataloged and archived. Product generation and distribution to commercial and governmental customers will also be managed by the regional operation center. Space Imaging Asia will sell the imagery products and services in the northeastern Asian region and exclusively in Korea.
"Space Imaging Asia is proud to be able to provide its customers the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery directly from its own regional operation center," said Dong Jin Kim, president and chief executive officer, Space Imaging Asia (e-HD.com). "Our partnership with Space Imaging will ensure that we as a company and country will be competitive in a global economy that, more than ever before, is being fueled by information."
In addition to IKONOS, Space Imaging Asia has marketing rights to other Earth imaging satellites including U.S. Landsat and the Indian Remote Sensing satellites. Data from IKONOS has unlimited utility in a number of markets including mapping, infrastructure planning, agricultural monitoring, natural disaster assessment, environmental monitoring, national security, and transportation planning.
"We are very pleased that Space Imaging Asia will now be able to directly task, download, process and sell imagery from IKONOS," said John Copple, Space Imaging's chief executive officer. "In the first year of sales of IKONOS imagery, we have seen continual demand worldwide for this information-rich, geospatial information. This new state-of-the-art regional operation center will help supply that growing demand."
"Space Imaging Asia will provide Korean and Asian customers faster access to regional Earth information than has ever before been available," said Conrad Mueller, vice president of international sales and marketing for Space Imaging. "This newest regional operation center is another step toward supplying imagery to the world while building the foundation for a commercial presence in a local market."
Space Imaging Asia is a member of the growing Space Imaging Global Network, a worldwide network of Regional Affiliates capable of tasking, processing and selling IKONOS imagery.
About Space Imaging
Space Imaging is a leading supplier of
visual information products derived from space imagery and aerial
photography. The company launched the world's first and only
one-meter resolution, commercial Earth imaging satellite, IKONOS, on
Sept. 24, 1999. Other CARTERRA(tm) products are produced from the
Indian Remote Sensing satellites, the U.S. Landsat, Canada's
RADARSAT and the European Space Agency's ERS satellites. Space
Imaging also delivers aerial-derived imagery products collected by
its own Digital Airborne Imaging System (DAIS-1(tm)). For more
information about Space Imaging Asia visit its web site at www.spaceimagingasia.com.
For more information about Space Imaging visit its web site at www.spaceimaging.com
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NOTE TO PHOTO EDITORS:
Images of Seoul, Korea available on the Web for illustration and
publishing purposes at http://newswire.spaceimaging.com
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