Satellite Imagery. (Readers Forum).

In your article, "Satellite-Image Suppliers Poised for Future Growth" (November 2002), your overview of the commercial providers of satellite imagery Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. History
The first satellite photographs of Earth were made August 14, 1959 by the US satellite Explorer 6. is both thorough and accurate, but limited to the American providers. I want to bring to your attention a third player in the high-resolution commercial imagery sector--ImageSar International N.V.

Although an international company, based in Cyprus and registered in the Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles, island group, an autonomous part of the Netherlands (2005 est. pop. 220,000), 371 sq mi (961 sq km), West Indies. Formerly known as the Dutch West Indies and Netherlands West Indies, they are divided into two groups. , ImageSat provides governments and national security agencies with high-quality, high-resolution satellite imagery from its Earth Resources Observation Satellite, EROS Eros, in Greek religion and mythology
Eros (ēr`ŏs, ĕr`–), in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest, tender, A. This lightweight and highly agile satellite provides standard 1.8-meter and hypersampled sub-meter panchromatic pan·chro·mat·ic
adj.
Sensitive to all colors: panchromatic film.

pan·chroma·tism n. imagery. In the second half of 2004, ImageSat is due to operate its EROS B1 satellite, which will offer higher quality resolution than EROS A, as well as multispectral capabilities.

Karen Gold Anisfeld

IMAGESAT INTERNATIONAL NV. TEL AVIV Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest . ISRAEL

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