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投稿者 すぺいま星人 日時 2001 年 1 月 23 日 18:12:57:
Space Imaging Awarded License
to Provide Half-Meter Resolution Commercial Satellite Imagery
Leading Provider
of Visual Earth Information Poised to be the World's Only Source of Half-Meter
Resolution Commercial Satellite Imagery
DENVER, Jan. 19,
2001 - Space Imaging announced today that it has been awarded a license
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to operate
a commercial remote sensing spacecraft capable of providing half-meter
resolution imagery of the Earth. The license, dated Dec. 6, 2000, enables
Space Imaging to offer customers the world's highest resolution commercial
satellite imagery. Customers across government and industry will be able
to capitalize on the value of this new source of visual information.
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Coors Field,
Denver, Colorado
This
half-meter resolution image of Coors Field in Denver, top, was collected
by Space Imaging's Digital Airborne Imagery System (DAIS) at approximately
12:00 p.m. on July 25, 2000. The image represents what Space Imaging's
next-generation satellite imaging system will be capable of producing
once operational in 2004. Half-meter resolution means objects on
the ground larger than one-half meter in size - or 19 inches - can
be seen. Examples in the image seen here are lines and demarcations
in the turf on the playing field, light poles, individual chairs
in each row, home base and car windshields. Above, is a one-meter
image from the IKONOS satellite. Credit: "spaceimaging.com."
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"We are pleased
with the outcome of the license process. There are many people who have
contributed to advancing this remote sensing policy. The policy of granting
a half-meter license enables U.S. companies such as Space Imaging to retain
the worldwide leadership in providing customers highly accurate Earth
imagery and mapping products to use in decision making." said John
Copple, Space Imaging's CEO. "Space Imaging has already established
a worldwide leadership position selling high-resolution satellite and
aerial imagery, and now we will be able to keep pace with the rapid changes
in technology for our next generation systems."
Space Imaging's next-generation
satellite imaging system will provide half-meter resolution black-and-white
(panchromatic) and two-meter resolution color (multispectral) imagery.
Half-meter resolution means objects on the ground larger than one-half
meter in size - or 19 inches - can be seen. One would be able to see such
objects as a line of utility poles, a picnic table, large farm animals,
small pipelines, individual trees and bushes, and agriculture fields for
precision farming. This higher resolution imagery is ideal for precisely
mapping utility and telecommunications networks, planning roads and highways,
facilities management, national security and other applications requiring
a high level of visual and positional detail and accuracy. It is not accurate
enough to recognize or identify people.
Space Imaging is in
the process of defining technical specifications for the new satellite.
Launch is anticipated in 2004.
In 1992 the Congress
passed the Landsat Act that enables U.S. companies to build and launch
commercial imaging satellites in order to compete with foreign companies
planning similar ventures. In 1994 the president signed a Presidential
Decisions Directive that further defined the government's remote sensing
policies. Last fall NOAA finalized the actual regulations that govern
this industry.
In April 1994, Space
Imaging was issued a license to offer one-meter resolution satellite imagery.
Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (then Lockheed Missiles and Space
Company) built and launched the IKONOS satellite under contract to Space
Imaging. Since the IKONOS launch in September 1999, Space Imaging has
been selling one-meter resolution black-and-white and four-meter resolution
color 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™ 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™). For detailed information about
Space Imaging, visit http://www.spaceimaging.com.
NOTE TO PHOTO EDITORS:
An image of Coors Field, in downtown Denver, taken from an airplane to
illustrate half-meter resolution imagery, and a one-meter resolution image
of Coors Field taken by IKONOS is available on the Web for illustration
and publishing purposes at http://newswire.spaceimaging.com.
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