SPOT Image gets GSA Contract

SPOT Image Corp. will soon be selling SPOT satellite imagery and related products and services to federal, state and local government agencies at pre-negotiated rates after the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the contract to the company.

The new SPOT contract greatly simplifies and accelerates the acquisition process for the multitude of government entities that rely on satellite imagery and derived products to better serve the American public.

Government users of geospatial information will be pleased to find that nearly the entire catalog of SPOT products has been offered in the GSA contract, including new and archived 2.5m – 20m standard SPOT images in a variety of scene sizes, geo-coded and ortho-rectified SPOTView custom mosaic products, Reference 3D data sets, Digital Elevation Models, SPOTMaps off-the-shelf mosaics, and Vegetation data. The GSA offering also includes some special processing services as well as new and archived imagery from the Taiwanese FORMOSAT-2 satellite.

To order SPOT imagery through GSA, visit the GSA Advantage web site at www.gsaadvantage.gov and enter the SPOT contract number (GS-35F-0014V) in the search box. General information on how to order through GSA can be found at www.gsa.gov. The contract is effective immediately and will continue through 2013.