SPOT Image Corp. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to sell SPOT satellite imagery and related products and services to federal, state, and local government agencies at pre-negotiated rates.

Offered under the GSA Information Technology (IT-70) Schedule, 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.

(Image of FORMOSAT-2 satellite courtesy of EADS Astrium SAS/ NSPO (National Space Programme Office) of Taiwan)