SPOT Image signed a Channel Partnership contract with Inta SpaceTurk, granting them the exclusive rights to distribute SPOT 5 satellite image products and services within Turkey, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria and Lebanon. Inta SpaceTurk is a regional provider for Earth observation technologies, and also operates a receiving station and distribution service for the products of the Ikonos satellite. SPOT 5’s capability to produce high resolution imagery, large area coverage, and 3D terrain models will be a major asset to help Inta SpaceTurk serve their markets in agriculture, forestry, environmental management, rural cadastral mapping and cartography. This agreement opens promising growth prospects in a region of the world where the value of geospatial technologies for planning and management is immense.
