[SatNews] RapidEye has announced that the second coverage of China for the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) in as many years has now been delivered.

The imagery campaign, which ran from August 1, 2010 through January 11, 2011, was intended to cover almost 5.8 Million square kilometers; 60 percent of the country. The project was successfully delivered and accepted by the MLR in the first week of February. “The MLR was so impressed with RapidEye's quick coverage and delivery of the country during the 2009-2010 growing season that when discussing an additional coverage this year, RapidEye was the obvious choice,“ said Sun Bing, CEO of Beijing East Dawn Information Technology Co., Ltd (EDIT), RapidEye's Chinese distributor. RapidEye is also very close to completing an additional project for the State Bureau of Mapping and Surveying (a branch of the MLR) where an area of over 920,000 square kilometers is being imaged. The imaging campaign includes selected areas that are notoriously cloudy, which makes successful collection challenging.