European Space Imaging (EUSI), a leading supplier of
high-resolution satellite imagery to customers in Europe and North
Africa, and DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global content
provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, announced the
commercial opening of the European Direct Access Facility (DAF) on
the 9th of April 2010 in Munich, Germany. The DAF is jointly
operated by European Space Imaging and the German Aerospace Center
(DLR) for the WorldView Global Alliance -- the commercial
partnership between European Space Imaging, Space Imaging Middle
East and DigitalGlobe.
WorldView Global Alliance customers can now benefit from
priority tasking through a direct data uplink and downlink from
WorldView-2, the world's first commercial 8-band high-resolution
satellite at 0.46 meter* GSD panchromatic and 1.84 meter*
multispectral.
The DAF allows EUSI to take into account local real-time weather
data to deliver efficient area collections, improved image quality
with reduced cloud cover and same-day production and delivery.
"Local, regional access improves the dynamics of our collection
capability, image quality, production and distribution of imagery
solutions to all of our customers," said Adrian Zevenbergen,
Managing Director of European Space Imaging. "The launch of this
DAF not only makes our offering unique, but it provides us with the
platform to continue to provide industry-leading products and
services, faster than anyone else."
"Regional access through the DAF to our advanced satellite
constellation allows our partners in the WorldView Global Alliance
to provide customers with a number of advantages," said Rafay Khan,
Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales, DigitalGlobe Inc.
"Regionally managed large area collections, 8-band high resolution
imagery, image capture optimization taking into account regional,
real-time weather data and advanced image processing for local
production and rapid distribution."
Through its close partnership with the German Aerospace Center
(DLR), EUSI continues to be the only European satellite data
provider that operates its own high-resolution satellite ground
station for direct satellite tasking and local data downlink.
"We have worked with European Space Imaging for more than seven
years now, providing management and optimization of the satellite
ground station's capability," said Prof. Stefan Dech, Director of
DFD. "With the launch of the European DAF, we take the first
position in Europe concerning the reception of high-resolution
satellite data, and we will strongly promote their
application."
Having successfully completed all site acceptance testing and
calibration, the facility at the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen is
already collecting imagery from WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 for
customers.
* Distribution and use of imagery at better than 0.50 m GSD pan
and 2.0 m GSD multispectral is subject to prior approval by the
U.S. Government.
About European Space Imaging and Space Imaging
Middle East European Space Imaging
(http://www.euspaceimaging.com) is a leading supplier of
high-resolution satellite imagery to customers in Europe and North
Africa. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Munich,
Germany. Working in close partnership with the German Aerospace
Center (DLR), EUSI is the only European satellite data provider
that operates its own high-resolution satellite ground station for
direct satellite tasking and local data downlink. Through the close
cooperation with its parent company Space Imaging Middle East
(http://www.spaceimagingme.com/), EUSI's customers benefit from
fast access to data from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and
South Asia.
About DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe
(http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services.
Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery
solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and
intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental
monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management,
internet portals and navigation technology. With our collection
sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than one
billion square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we
offer a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to
enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into
their business operations and applications. For more information,
please visit www.digitalglobe.com. DigitalGlobe is a registered
trademark of DigitalGlobe.
About DLR DLR (http://www.dlr.de) is
Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space. Its
extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space,
transportation and energy is integrated into national and
international cooperative ventures. As Germany's Space Agency, the
German federal government has given DLR responsibility for the
forward planning and implementation of the German space programme
as well as international representation of Germany's interests.
Approximately 6500 people work for DLR; the center has 29
institutes and facilities at 13 locations in Germany: Berlin, Bonn,
Braunschweig, Bremen, Cologne (headquarters), Goettingen, Hamburg,
Lampoldshausen, Neustrelitz, Oberpfaffenhofen, Stuttgart, Trauen
and Weilheim. DLR also has offices in Brussels, Paris and
Washington, D.C.
More information can be obtained from
www.worldviewglobalalliance.com
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