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Company Press Release
SOURCE: Aerial Images, Inc.
Aerial Images Signs Exclusive Agreement to Host ORBIMAGE
Products on www.TerraServer.com ; ORBIMAGE Imagery Available on TerraServer.com
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerial Images, Inc. announced today that Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE), an affiliate of
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB - news), will provide its imagery products on the Internet site www.TerraServer.com .
ORBIMAGE's OrbView Cities and OrbView-2 data sets will be available for purchase on TerraServer.com. The TerraServer(TM) is the world's
leading Internet web site for consumer access to satellite imagery. The TerraServer is a joint development between Aerial Images, Inc.,
Microsoft Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, and others.
In addition to the TerraServer agreement, ORBIMAGE will re-distribute Aerial Images, Inc.'s SPIN-2 basic and value-added imagery products
generated from Russian two-meter resolution satellites through its reseller network, which includes its Internet site, www.ORBIMAGE.com .
This agreement establishes ORBIMAGE data, along with SPIN-2 images, as the only high-resolution satellite imagery to be offered on
TerraServer. Visitors to TerraServer.com will be able to browse a large number of one-meter resolution images of U.S. and foreign cities at no
cost, and purchase small image areas in digital or print form at consumer-level prices.
``We are very excited to offer ORBIMAGE's one-meter imagery on the TerraServer,' said Aerial Images' President John Hoffman. ``This
agreement will bring a steady stream of new high-resolution imagery to the TerraServer customer base.'
Gilbert D. Rye, ORBIMAGE President, said, ``Our TerraServer relationship helps change the 30-year paradigm that has limited satellite imagery
to just scientists and government users by now making imagery available for everyday, consumer use.'
About Aerial Images, Inc.
Aerial Images, Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a pioneer in the marketing of high-resolution
satellite and aerial imagery. Aerial Images, Inc. distributes 2-meter resolution SPIN-2 satellite imagery worldwide, and is the aggregator of
commercial satellite and aerial imagery for on-line sale on the TerraServer. The TerraServer (www.terraserver.com ) is the only on-line source for
commercial high-resolution imagery of cities and regions in more than sixty countries.
About ORBIMAGE
ORBIMAGE is a leading global provider of satellite-delivered Earth imagery services with a planned constellation of five digital remote sensing
satellites. ORBIMAGE currently operates the OrbView-1 atmospheric imaging satellite (launched in 1995), the OrbView-2 ocean and land
multispectral imaging satellite (launched in 1997), and an integrated image receiving, processing and distribution system with 14 active regional
ground stations around the world. ORBIMAGE also plans to launch the OrbView-3 high-resolution imaging satellite and the companion
OrbView-4 high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging satellite next year. In addition, ORBIMAGE has secured the worldwide distribution rights
for the Canadian RadarSat-2 satellite system.
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