Spot Image Becomes Google Earth Enterprise Partner

CHANTILLY, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Spot Image Corp. today announced that it has been named a Google
Earth Enterprise Partner. Spot Image Corp. will leverage this new
partnership with Google to deliver imagery through current and planned
web-based solutions to clients through Google Earth.

Spot Image Corp. will develop 'ready-to-use' image data sets for
Google Earth and Google Earth Enterprise users in addition to creating
a variety of advanced new information services and solutions. Spot
Image Corp. plans to tap into the Google Earth Enterprise architecture
to integrate the rich information content of SPOT satellite imagery
into maps (2D) and Globes (3D).

"We have a unique and extensive data content, with millions of
square kilometers of off-the-shelf imagery, that we can now offer for
use in Google Earth and Google Earth Enterprise," said Nicolas Stussi,
Director of Services, Spot Image Corp.

Spot Image Corp. is also developing services that will allow its
users to quickly access and share data in Google Earth when
time-critical imagery is required. "Such a service will help better
support agencies involved in disaster or quick-reaction support, and
reach out more quickly and efficiently to a much broader group of
users at various levels of the decision making process," says Stussi.

Spot Image clients can expect these new offerings to be introduced
in the U.S. in the summer 2008, and they will be expanded to other
markets later this year. Spot Image intends to market these services
primarily to Government, Oil & Gas, insurance and the real estate
industries.

Google Earth Enterprise provides a variety of advantages to
existing and future SPOT imagery clients. Imagery can be viewed and
used with any standard web interface, and the Google Earth Enterprise
environment is scalable for large organizations to allow access to an
unlimited number of end users. In addition, Spot Image can archive and
host SPOT imagery along with hundreds of other geospatial data layers
within the Google Earth Enterprise solution.

"We are delighted to have Spot Image as a partner that can open up
their extensive catalog of satellite and aerial imagery in the formats
that Google Earth users need, when they need it," said Bryan Atwood,
product manager for Google Earth Enterprise. "Custom imagery sets in
KML format from Spot Image will be extremely valuable for all types of
Google Earth applications, from real estate development to disaster
response."

About Spot Image (www.spotimage.com)

The SPOT constellation of three satellites offers the broadest
range of image telemetry, including, 2.5, 5, 10, and 20 meter
resolutions. Spot Image provides imagery, data, surveillance and
mapping solutions within numerous markets including Defense, Homeland
Security, Agriculture, Land Management & Planning, Disaster Recovery,
and Oil, Gas & Mining Exploration. The constellation is supplemented
by the Taiwanese satellite Formosat-2 for which Spot Image has
exclusive commercial distribution rights. Spot Image will also serve
as exclusive commercial distributor for the upcoming 50cm resolution
2-satellite constellation, Pleiades, and the SPOT 6 satellite
constellation.

For over two decades, the Spot Image organization has perfected
the ability to harness space- and ground-based systems to meet
customers' needs. Spot Image has also developed a far-reaching global
network of commercial offices, receiving stations, partners and
distributors. Every first-tier data provider operating today relies on
Spot's commercial network for reaching the global market.

Spot Image is 81% owned by Astrium Services, an EADS company.

Google and Google Earth are trademarks of Google Inc.

Spot Image Corp.
In the U.S.:
Nicolas Stussi, 703-715-3129
stussi@spot.com
or
In Toulouse, France:
Jennifer Newlands, +33 5 62 19 40 09
jennifer.newlands@spotimage.fr

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