DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced it will significantly expand delivery of high-resolution imagery to Roslesinforg, a division of the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia.
Forested regions account for approximately half of Russia’s land mass. In total, they are equivalent in size to the entire land mass of the United States, and represent about 22 percent of the world’s forests.
In 2011, Roslesinforg selected Sovzond, DigitalGlobe’s Platinum Reseller in Russia, for the supply of satellite imagery to better manage key forestry regions across the Russian Federation.
The new contract, signed by Sovzond this month, more than doubles the amount of imagery to be delivered and greatly increases the regions covered to help the agency protect against illegal logging and manage urban development.
“We are uniquely positioned to address the challenge of monitoring change across exceptionally large areas,” said Andrea Bersan, international vice president at DigitalGlobe. “Using the superior collection capacity and short cycle revisit capabilities of our three-satellite constellation, Roslesinforg will soon be able to access vital information across every square kilometer of forest in the country, helping their experts gain on-demand insight for planning, protection and management.”
DigitalGlobe has worked with Sovzond for more than six years, leveraging Sovzond’s regional expertise to deliver higher-value geospatial intelligence solutions to government and commercial customers throughout Russia.
“For many years DigitalGlobe has been a key enabler of our competitive advantage and growth, and we look forward to building on our success with this latest expansion,” said Michael Bolsunovsky, executive director at Sovzond. “DigitalGlobe has consistently shown excellent performance, enabled by the most advanced constellation, the best ground infrastructure, and the largest archive of any commercial provider. In our first engagement with Roslesinforg, these superior capabilities enabled us to cover 94 percent of the required territory with less than 15 percent cloud cover.”
About DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than two billion square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their business operations and applications. For more information, visit www.digitalglobe.com.
About Sovzond Sovzond JSC, a private sector enterprise founded in 1992, began its activities by providing services centering around digital remote sensing data processing and mapping. These services were soon combined with information system technologies. Today, Sovzond offers a broad range of applications, ranging from geodata procurement (satellite data, DEM, land use and land cover data), value added processing, data processing and software development to the provision of turn-key technical assistance projects and customized spatial land management and monitoring systems.
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