High-Resolution Satellite Images Now Available to Universities Via New Public-Private Partnership
The agreement allows researchers to tap into SPOT data for a discounted fee.
The collaboration between UCSB and Terra Image USA is breaking down the barriers to the academic use of commercial satellite imagery, cutting the cost by nearly 90 percent. ...Terra Image USA, in collaboration with UCSB, is offering all U.S. universities a special, subscription-only service that provides unprecedented pricing for archived and programmed SPOT imagery for academic research purposes.
Details are here. (Oddly, that link is not in the press release.) The page details a $10,000 subscription per campus that then allows for discounted scenes.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/13 at 01:27 PM |
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