Multi-year Imagery Agreement for GeoEye and ScanEx

GeoEye will deliver high-resolution IKONOS imagery from its extensive colour imagery archive and new imagery to be collected through 2012. This new agreement expands the 2010 agreement where GeoEye provided ScanEx over two million square kilometres of imagery. The scope of this new agreement underscores the international commercial market's increasing demand for high-resolution satellite imagery and services.

Olga Gershenzon, founder and vice president of ScanEx, said to be certain that this project, similar to the Landsat programme in the 1980s, will stimulate development of remote-sensing applications based on GeoEye's high-resolution imagery.

Chris Tully, GeoEye's senior vice president of Sales, said that GeoEye and ScanEx have enjoyed a productive partnership since 2009. "We are continually impressed by the creativity, entrepreneurship and contributions they have demonstrated by providing innovative tools and services to advance the Russian Earth-observation market."