Space Imaging Middle East Announced.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- Latest Affiliate Showcases Full Range of CARTERRA(TM) Products at Dubai 2000 Space Imaging announced today that a new Regional Affiliate, Space Imaging Middle East, has signed a contract for access to Earth imagery collected by the IKONOS satellite. With the successful launch of IKONOS on September 24, 1999, the contract for Space Imaging Middle East to collect and distribute the imagery products became effective. By offering the new IKONOS-based imagery products under the CARTERRA(TM) brand name, Space Imaging Middle East will provide its customers in the Middle East access to the world's first high-resolution commercial 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. , and continue the tradition of serving the region with leading Earth imagery products and services. Space Imaging Middle East is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. . The formation of Space Imaging Middle East represents the latest step forward in the development of a global network of commercial companies dedicated to supplying high-resolution Earth imagery and information products to customers. As a Regional Affiliate for Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite imagery, Space Imaging Middle East is selling CARTERRA products and services within the Gulf States, the Middle East, Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. and North Africa. Space Imaging Middle East, formerly doing business as Dubai Space Imaging, has been selling Indian Remote Sensing Deriving digital models of an area on the earth. Using special cameras from airplanes or satellites, either the sun's reflections or the earth's temperature is turned into digital maps of the area. and U.S. Landsat 5 satellite imagery products in those regions. Space Imaging Middle East products will also be promoted through Space Imaging in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The announcement of the formation of Space Imaging Middle East takes place at Dubai 2000, the last major aerospace exposition of the millennium. The show runs from November 14-18 in Dubai. "Dubai 2000 is the ideal backdrop for Space Imaging Middle East to showcase its CARTERRA product offerings to the worldwide marketplace," said Juma Saif Rashid Bin Bakhit, chairman of Space Imaging Middle East. "We are excited to join Space Imaging Middle East at Dubai 2000, reaffirming Space Imaging's commitment to the Middle East region," said John Copple, Space Imaging's chief executive officer. "With the successful launch of IKONOS, and the presentation of some initial CARTERRA images for the first time to customers at Dubai 2000, we can clearly demonstrate to the world the value of these products to a range of government and commercial clients." At the Dubai 2000 Exposition, Space Imaging Middle East is highlighting a range of brand-new CARTERRA images from the IKONOS satellite, and will be presenting a broad suite of information solutions based on imagery and related ground processing, analysis and exploitation systems. CARTERRA products have unlimited utility in a number of markets including mapping, infrastructure planning, agricultural monitoring, forestry inventorying, natural disaster assessment, environmental monitoring, national security, and transportation planning Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities (generally streets, highways, sidewalks, bike lanes and public transport lines). . Space Imaging is a leading supplier of space imagery, aerial photography This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , mapping services, and derivative geographic information products and services. The company launched the world's first-ever one-meter resolution, commercial imaging satellite, IKONOS, on September 24, 1999. Space Imaging also collects and distributes Earth imagery from the Indian Remote Sensing satellites Indian Remote Sensing satellites (IRS) are a series of Earth Observation satellites, mostly built, launched and maintained by Indian Space Research Organisation of India as part of the Indian space program. The IRS series provides remote sensing services to the country. , the U.S. Landsat, Canada's RADARSAT RADARSAT Radar Satellite and the European Space Agency's ERS ERS, n.pr See extended rotated side-bent. satellites. |
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