The first public release of a RapidEye image has now been unveiled on the company's website. This demo image highlights the capabilities of RapidEye imagery in many market segments by showing diverse landscapes that include agricultural fields, forests, cities and roads. The image shows the area of El Bolsón in Argentina near the Argentinian-Chilean border. El Bolsón is situated in the far southwest of the Río Negro Province in Argentina at the foot of the Piltriquitron Mountain. The image was recorded by RapidEye's camera built by Jena-Optronik of Jena, Germany and was taken from the satellite RapidEye # 1, named Choros, at a nadir view angle and has a pixel size of 5 meters. It was downloaded to KSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Services) in Svalbard, Norway and electronically transmitted to the RapidEye headquarters in Brandenburg, Germany. This demo image covers an area of 12,5 km x 12,5 km, a quarter of RapidEye's regular tile size. For demonstration purposes, the radiometric resolution has been reduced to 8 bit from the regular 12 bit. RapidEye is releasing the image in two band combinations: True Color (RGB) and Color Infrared (CIR). While the True Color version can be used for cartographic purposes, the Color Infrared (CIR) version is suitable for biomass monitoring. The first image is the Natural Color offering, the second image is Color Infrared.