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US Military Purchases Exclusive Rights to Ikonos Imagery Over Operation Enduring Freedom

By Glenn Letham (editor@geocomm.com)

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According to news out of the AP on Wednesday, the U.S. military is paying for the exclusive rights to commercial satellite imagery of Afghanistan even though its own satellites are believed to gather supperior imagery.

Speculation is that this would serve two purposes: to provide an extra eye on Afghanistan, and to prevent others from "peeking" at the war zone.


Kabul as seen before the attacks by the Ikonos satellite (Picture by Space Imaging Inc)

The images from the Ikonos satellite are thought to be the best available to the public. the contract which began Oct. 7 is expected to be in the multimillion dollar range and not only covers exclusive rights to the imagery but also provides compensation for all the time that the satellite is over the target area.

Experts believe that the resolution achieved by U.S. military satellites is probably about 10 times better than Ikonos can provide.

Media Can Purchase Imagery

There is a slight exception to this, however. On Friday, October 19, SpaceImaging announced that media can purchase right of use for the first post-strike satellite image of Afghanistan.

This commercial one-meter resolution satellite image of the Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan was collected on Oct. 10, 2001 by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite
Credit: spaceimaging.com. Copyright ©Space Imaging. All rights reserved.



This commercial one-meter resolution satellite image of the Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan was collected on April 23, 2001 by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite
Credit: spaceimaging.com. Copyright ©Space Imaging. All rights reserved.




Any public relations questions for Space Imaging should be directed to:
Mark Brender
mbrender@spaceimaging.com
Phone: (703) 558-0309

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