Space Imaging announces first CARTERRA products; up-to-date products to be available off-the-shelf from Archive.

THORNTON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1996--Space Imaging announced today the first products available in its CARTERRA(tm/sm) product line.

CARTERRA is the company's new approach for making high-resolution earth imagery and related geographic information accessible and affordable to commercial customers worldwide. Space Imaging's first products, CARTERRA Master(tm), CARTERRA Original(tm), and CARTERRA Model(tm), will be available to customers through the CARTERRA Archive(tm/sm), also announced today (see accompanying announcement).

Space Imaging is creating and offering CARTERRA products in partnership with leading mapping providers until the company launches its first one-meter resolution imaging satellite in late 1997.

CARTERRA Master, the company's flagship image product, is a precise orthophoto which combines the geometry of a map with the unique properties of the visual image for interpretation. Offered in both color and black-and-white formats, CARTERRA Master image products provide an outstanding resource as dependable digital base maps and as principal data sources for manual and automated feature extraction and exploitation. These products will be processed to meet U.S. accuracy standards for 1:2400 scale mapping. The first CARTERRA Master products in the company's globally distributed digital archive are a series of images of the San Francisco Bay Area, collected by Hammon, Jensen, Wallen & Assoc. of Oakland, Calif. (see accompanying announcement).

CARTERRA Original will be offered as "quick-look" color and black-and-white imagery. These products will be ideal for monitoring specific events on the earth's surface and for use in visual interpretation and exploitation where accurate metric measurements are not necessary. CARTERRA Original products require minimal processing after being collected by the satellite, enabling delivery to customers within hours of collection. These images are radiometrically processed to accommodate the satellite sensor' s properties, and geometrically processed to achieve uniform scale.

CARTERRA Model products will include digital terrain models, three-dimensional imagery products and stereo images. These image products may be used as the basis for perspective scenes, animated fly-throughs, and as powerful tools for public hearings and presentations because they represent visual information realistically and dynamically. CARTERRA Model products will provide accurate models of terrain - "digital terrain models" - which are processed from pairs of stereo images, most useful for three-dimensional visualization and interpretation.

Space Imaging will provide high-quality, high-resolution satellite imagery of the earth to commercial, government and consumer users, including such markets as utilities, transportation, resource management and geographic information systems. Space Imaging will be the first commercial company to offer one-meter black-and-white and one-meter color-enhanced imagery of the earth, and ground accuracy as high as one-and-a-half meters. The company, headquartered in Thornton, Colo., will launch its first commercial satellite in late 1997.

Sample CARTERRA imagery from Space Imaging can be viewed on the company's World Wide Web home page at http://www.spaceimage.com. -0-

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