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New SPOTMaps available
SPOTMaps of Iraq, Kuwait, Botswana, Wales, Zimbabwe, North Chile, Namibia, East Part of South Africa, Australia-New South Wales, Australia-Northwestern are now available. SPOTMaps are the ideal geographic reference for your visualization, mapping and planning needs.

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View the Earth from Space with SPOTGallery
You can now enjoy beautiful satellite images from all over the world by adding the SPOTGallery iGoogle Gadget to your iGoogle page. The SPOTGallery includes satellite images which have been selected for their beauty: a series of images over natural, wild, arid, ice-covered or man-made landscapes. These images are available as desktop wallpaper, high-resolution digital files and posters that can be purchased online. Using the iGoogle Gadget, you can enjoy a virtual journey from image to image and from town to town across countries and continents.

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Monitoring the Lusi mud volcano, Java
Latest image: 24 January 2008 – FORMOSAT-2 What’s new: To the north of the mud volcano, run-off waters are now being diverted toward agricultural irrigation channels.

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Bangladesh: SPOT 4 reveals extent of floods
Thursday 15 November, Cyclone Sidr, a category 4 storm spanning 500 kilometres, slammed into south-western Bangladesh. The evacuation by the authorities of 1.5 million people to cyclone shelters built since the devastating floods of 1991 saved many lives. Winds of up to 240 kilometres per hour flattened flimsy straw, bamboo and corrugated iron huts, while waves of 5 metres hit coastal towns like Patukhli. Cyclone Sidr also devastated the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, home to thousands of rare animals and a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve since 2001.

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SPOT Image Corp. plays key role in CA wildfires response effort
Southern California experienced an unprecedented response from the geospatial community during the October fires that ravished their area. SPOT Image Corporation’s activities during this period highlighted the company’s family of satellites and their ability to focus these resources to attain timely data that proved easily integrated into visualization and geospatial analysis tools.

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Spot Image aids Peru earthquake response effort
Wednesday 15 August at 23 hours 40 minutes and 57 seconds UTC, an earthquake of magnitude 8 on the Richter scale shook Peru’s coastline and the capital city Lima. The quake flattened 70% of the city of Pisco, spreading panic among its 130,000 inhabitants. A comparison of a SPOT 5 satellite image acquired 21 August and an archive image of 10 January 2006 highlights the trail of destruction.

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SPOT 5 maps flooded roads in Namibia
Namibia has declared a state of emergency in response to the flooding caused by heavy rains in the north of the country. A map of flooded roads around the town of Oshakati was produced from a SPOT 5 satellite image to help organize relief efforts.

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SPOT 5 and FORMOSAT-2 train their sights on forest fires south of Valparaiso, Chile
The SPOT 5 and FORMOSAT-2 satellites were tasked to assess the impact of forest fires that recently raged across hills overlooking tourist spots south of Valparaiso, Chile.

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SPOT Image Partners with AmericaView
CHANTILLY, VA, 23 January 2008 – Students at colleges and universities across the United States will have web access to high-resolution satellite imagery for use in educational and research projects thanks to a new partnership between SPOT Image Corp. and the AmericaViewSM, Inc. Consortium (AVI). SPOT has agreed to make SPOT satellite imagery available via the web to AmericaView academic institutions for education and research purposes at discounted rates.

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Spot Image Launches ‘One World, One Year’ Imagery Layer on Google Earth
CHANTILLY, VA and TOULOUSE, FRANCE, 15 October 2007 -- Spot Image is bringing fresh content to Google Earth with a selection of the best SPOT satellite imagery from all around the world.

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SPOT 5 aiding glaciologists for International Polar Year
Spot Image and CNES contributing actively to International Polar Year For the 4th International Polar Year (IPY)—which started in 2007, 50 years after the last one, and runs until March 2009—the global scientific community is focusing on the polar regions in an effort to answer the questions everyone is asking about environmental change. To this end, new space technologies are giving scientists a head start in understanding the key role of the polar regions in shaping environmental and climate change.

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Searching by Satellite
The hunt for downed aviator Steve Fossett highlighted the value of rapid acquisition and dissemination of imagery for military and emergency needs. By Kevin P. Corbley On September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett took off alone in a single engine aircraft from a private ranch in western Nevada. When the famed adventurer had not returned by nightfall, family and friends contacted local authorities, and by the next morning, news outlets around the world reported that Fossett and his aircraft were missing.

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Featured Article: Satellite Images Bridge Understanding Gap between Climate Change and Individuals
The geospatial community can play a vital role in global warming research by helping to make a connection between climate change and individual people. The best way to accomplish this is by making satellite imagery and derived information more easily accessible and understandable to the general public, so they can see the impact that climate change has at the local level.

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Spot Magazine n°43
2nd semester 2007

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Earth Observation and GIS Industries Take Action Against Climate Change
Planet Action is a nonprofit collaborative initiative begun by satellite imagery industry leader Spot Image, and joined by ESRI as a founding partner. Its purpose is to encourage the earth observation industry and GIS professional communities to address climate change by supporting projects that investigate and assess climate change environmental impacts in five areas of focus: human dimensions and habitation, drought and water resources, vegetation and ecosystems, oceans, and ice and snow cover. By assisting in and funding projects that will support understanding and action on environmental impacts, the Planet Action initiative, founded in June 2007, hopes to strengthen international cooperation and response to climate change problems.

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> Learn more about SPOT Image Corp.
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About Spot Image
Since 1986, Spot Image has been the worldwide distributor of geographic information products and services derived from the constellation of SPOT Earth observation satellites, serving the Defense, Civilian and Natural Resource Exploration markets. Spot Image also distributes complementary optical and radar data acquired by other satellites, including Formosat-2, the first and only high-resolution satellite with a daily revisit capability.

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