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Toulouse, France, October 6 |
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TOULOUSE, FRANCE On September 29, Spot Image signed a Channel Partnership contract with Inta SpaceTurk, granting them the exclusive rights to distribute SPOT 5 satellite image products and services within Turkey, Turkm駭istan, Azerba?jan, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria and Lebanon. Inta SpaceTurk is a regional leader for Earth observation technologies, and also operates a receiving station and distribution service for the products of the Ikonos satellite.
SPOT 5痴 capability to produce high resolution imagery, large area coverage, and 3D terrain models will be a major asset to help Inta SpaceTurk serve their markets in agriculture, forestry, environmental management, rural cadastral mapping and cartography.
"Inta SpaceTurk is a major player in the geographic information industry, and we share the same strategic vision of the market. This agreement opens promising growth prospects for us in a region of the world where the value of geospatial technologies for planning and management is immense, explains Jean-Marc Nasr, Chairman and CEO of Spot Image, S.A.
"With our new Spot partnership, we broaden our sphere of activity, and reinforce our leadership position in the geographic information industry throughout Eurasia and Central Asia," states Murat Erciyes, President of Inta SpaceTurk. "Our partnership will allow us to develop the market for application services because of the combined assets of the two companies. To help with this, Inta SpaceTurk has created a group at the University of Bilkent devoted exclusively to software development for navigation and localization applications."
Inta SpaceTurk becomes the eighth member of the SPOT Global Alliance which includes: DigitalGlobe and RESOURCE21 in the United States; Iunctus Geomatics in Canada; ImageONE in Japan; Raytheon Australia in Australia; Imagem in Brazil; and BSA in Mauritania.
The Spot Image Group, with headquarters in Toulouse, France, provides geographic information solutions to worldwide decision makers through its network of five subsidiaries (located in the United States, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan), receiving stations, partners and distributors around the globe.
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