CARTERRA World Views Product Available for Sale; Customers Can Order Wide-Area Satellite Imagery More Easily Than Ever.

THORNTON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1998--Space Imaging announced today the availability of its CARTERRA(tm) World Views product.

This satellite imagery, available for the entire continental United States, provides a big picture overview for a variety of commercial and government applications.

CARTERRA World Views provides a wide-area, comprehensive view of the entire U.S. at 180-meter resolution. The color imagery is available for the U.S. or as smaller subsets covering a region or state, and can be packaged with separate files containing graphical overlays of state boundaries, interstate highways, and state capitals. The product gives customers the flexibility to order satellite imagery in new, more versatile ways.

Two color versions of the product are available: One version is sold as a "natural" color image and the other is sold as a color image taken by the satellite in the red or near-infrared bands. Natural color imagery provides a true representation of Earth features as the human eye sees them, while infrared imagery provides additional information about vegetation, such as drought characteristics. CARTERRA World Views imagery is cloud-free and color-balanced for maximum distinction of detail.

"We are changing the paradigm for the way satellite imagery has traditionally been sold because we are offering a more user-friendly product," said Melinda Brown, Space Imaging's director of marketing.

Markets that use CARTERRA World Views range from natural resource planning, to regional mapping and vegetation indexing, to urban planning, tourism, media and consumer applications. The product provides a colorful backdrop for presentations, news and weather reports, travel maps, and encyclopedias. Because of its digital nature, CARTERRA World Views can be readily integrated into a geographic information system or visualization software packages.

CARTERRA World Views images are delivered via CD-ROM as TIFF and GeoTIFF files accompanied by graphical overlays. Pricing ranges from $750 to $25,000 depending on whether the product covers a state, region or the entire continental U.S. Price also varies according to state size. The product can be ordered by either calling the Customer Service Center at 800-232-9037 in the U.S. or 303-552-0537 worldwide, or by logging on to Space Imaging's Web site (www.spaceimaging.com) and downloading a form that can be filled out and emailed or faxed to Customer Service.

Space Imaging is a leading supplier of space imagery, aerial photography, mapping services, and derivative geographic information products and services. The company supplies these products and services to commercial, government and consumer users worldwide. Space Imaging collects and 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 a broad array of information products derived from airborne imagery through its Mapping Alliance Program (MAP).