Space Imaging Has Exclusive Rights To India's Soon-To-Be-Launched Cartosat-1

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Indian Space Rocket Blasts Off With Two Satellites
Sriharikota, India (AFP) May 05, 2005 - An Indian Space Rocket Blasted Off Thursday In The Country's First Bid To Carry Two Satellites In A Single Launch, Part Of Its Ambitious Space Programme That Aims To Send A Probe To The Moon.

The Launch Of The Two Satellites From The Satish Dhawan Space Port Near Madras On India's Southeast Coast Will Help Mapmakers And Amateur Radio Operators, Space Officials Said.

The 44-Metre (145-Foot) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Lifted Off Carrying A Remote Sensing Satellite Whose Precise Imaging Is Aimed At Putting Every Indian Household On The Map And One For Home Radio Operators.

Denver CO (SPX) May 05, 2005
Space Imaging announced Wednesday it will soon offer satellite ground station access and sell imagery from Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) newest satellite Cartosat-1 (P-5).

Space Imaging has an exclusive sales and marketing agreement through 2010 with Antrix, a division of the ISRO, which covers worldwide rights to sell imagery outside of India.

The agreement covers sale of imagery and direct ground station access to the Cartosat-1, Resourcesat-1 and the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) 1-C and 1-D satellites.

ISRO says Cartosat-1 is scheduled to be launched on May 5. ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C6, will launch India's latest remote sensing satellite into a 618-km, polar sun-synchronous orbit.

It will be launched from India's newest launch pad (Second Launch Pad) at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC).

Cartosat-1 has two state-of-the-art panchromatic cameras that take black- and-white stereoscopic images in the visible light spectrum at a resolution of 2. 5 meters.

The cameras cover a swath of about 30 km and take images of the same area during the same pass from two different angles.

The stereo images can be used to create accurate elevation data of the Earth and create three- dimensional image maps. Since the cameras are steerable, Cartosat-1 has a revisit time over any part of the Earth every five days.

Cartosat-1 also has an onboard storage capacity of 120 Giga Bits to store images when not in contact with a ground station.

"Both Cartosat-1 and Resourcesat-1 show the prominence the Indian commercial program has around the world," said Robert Dalal, CEO of Space Imaging.

"Cartosat-1 will soon become a well-known resource in the global Earth-observation market, and Space Imaging and Antrix together will lead its adoption and growth.

Data from Cartosat-1 will be used for large-scale mapping, urban and rural development, land and water resources management, disaster assessment, relief planning and management, environmental impact assessment and various other geospatial and mapping applications.

The data is also ideal for updating topographic maps.

To commemorate the launch of Cartosat-1, Space Imaging is releasing a new IKONOS satellite image of the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre where Cartosat-1 will be launched.

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NASA And EPA Team To Improve Crop Management

Washington (SPX) May 04, 2005
Can you see the difference between traditional corn and bio-engineered corn? NASA technology is beginning to provide the answer in a snapshot. The technology is called hyperspectral imaging.

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