“Yandex” purchases high resolution images from ScanEx – the distributor of satellite images – covering 10 million sq.km of the Earth territory. This territory is comparable to almost 2/3 of the acreage of Russia. “Yandex” and “ScanEx” companies signed an agreement on purchasing images, covering almost 10 million square kilometers of the Earth surface, said ScanEx’s partner. All images will be supplied to Yandex in high resolution – 0.8m per pixel, informed ScanEx’s Vice-President Olga Gershenzon. Images with comparable resolution (0.5-1 m) are available now on “Yandex.Maps” portal, however they cover mostly large cities, said she. The agreement with ScanEx was signed for two years and does not restrict Yandex to Russian images only, says this search engine representative Ochir Mandzhikov. Read More
