Space Imaging Introduces Standard Ortho Satellite Imagery Product Line

Standard Ortho Provides Mapping Quality Imagery at a Value

DENVER, CO, March 12, 2003 -- Space Imaging, the world's leading provider of Earth imagery and related services to commercial and government markets, has released its new IKONOS Standard Ortho product line derived from its IKONOS satellite. Standard Ortho is a cost-effective mapping product that can be produced and delivered quickly. Designed for GIS professionals performing basic mapping projects or image classification and analysis, Standard Ortho is ortho-corrected with a horizontal accuracy of 50 meters (CE90) and obtains a 1:100,000 NMAS. As with all IKONOS imagery products, it is available in 1-meter, 4-meter or 1- and 4-meter bundles, with options of black-and-white, color or multispectral. Prices start at $22 per square kilometer.

"Our standard mapping and visualization customers now have another cost- effective option to purchase this value-priced orthorectified product instead of costlier data that may exceed their basic project needs," said Gene Colabatistto, president of Space Imaging, Solutions. "IKONOS leads the market in quality and positional accuracy, and this product includes these superior qualities of IKONOS while affording customers more value. Standard Ortho is the most consistently accurate product of its type available in the market today."

Standard Ortho is also available with the same geographic and radiometric options as other IKONOS data products and can be quickly delivered. To produce Standard Ortho, Space Imaging's orthorectifying process utilizes an enhanced version of the most accurate, publicly available, global Digital Elevation Model (DEM). This results in the ability to rapidly produce and deliver a consistent product to the end user. Since Standard Ortho is orthorectified, it is ready for immediate use in mapping projects, further reducing valuable project time.

For more information on Standard Ortho visit the IKONOS products section on Space Imaging's website at http://www.spaceimaging.com/products/ikonos /.

About Space Imaging

Space Imaging is a leading supplier of visual information products and services derived from space imagery and aerial photography. The company launched the world's first high-resolution, commercial Earth imaging satellite, IKONOS(TM), on Sept. 24, 1999. Other products are produced from the Indian Remote Sensing satellites, the U.S. Landsat satellites and Canada's RADARSAT. 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 visit its web site at http://www.spaceimaging.com .

                

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