ORBIMAGE

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ORBIMAGE is a leading global provider of Earth imagery products and services, with a planned constellation of four digital remote sensing satellites. The company currently operates the OrbView-1 atmospheric imaging satellite launched in 1995, the OrbView-2 ocean and land multispectral imaging satellite launched in 1997, and a worldwide integrated image receiving, processing and distribution network. Currently under development, ORBIMAGE's OrbView-3 high-resolution satellite will offer one-meter panchromatic and four-meter multispectral digital imagery on a global basis. ORBIMAGE is also the U.S. distributor of worldwide imagery from the Canadian RADARSAT-2 satellite.

"ORBIMAGE currently [November 2001] offers one-meter high-resolution panchromatic imagery of major U.S. and international urban areas through its OrbView Cities catalog, available at http://www.orbimage.com. In addition, ORBIMAGE distributes imagery from Canada's RADARSAT-1 satellite and Russia's SPIN-2 satellite. ORBIMAGE also offers the SeaStar Pro Fisheries Information Service, which provides fish finding maps derived from OrbView-2 satellite imagery of the world's oceans to fishing customers worldwide."


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