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From: ens598@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric Sheffer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,sci.space
Subject: Re: SPOT picture wanted
Message-ID: <608@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 26 Mar 88 19:35:59 GMT
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Summary: Problem.....

In article <284@sialis.mn.org>, rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
> >> I would like to purchase a SPOT image of a particular place, on or about
> >> a particular time.  Can someone point me to an appropriate source for
> >> ordering same?  I also need pricing (presumably from the same source).
> >
> Snarfed from the latest issue of Omni:
> 
> You can contact the U.S. Geological Survey offers a service where you
> can order clear color or black and white photos of any location in the
> United States.  The costs from from $6 to $65 depending on print size.
> 
> 
> For a brochure, write:
> 
> 	National Cartographic Information Center
> 	U.S. Geological Survey
> 	507 National Center
> 	Reston, VA  22092
> 

  The problem with this solution is that you have to know what you're
  getting.  SPOT provides two formats:  10 meter _panchromatic_ black
  and white or 15 meter _color-infrared_ imagery.  USGS and Earth Resource
  Obervation System (EROS) maintains a miriad of images, from Gemini, Apollo
  and Skylab orbital photographs to LANDSAT Thematic Mapper imagery.  If
  you're thinking about this option, consider National High Altitude
  Photography Program's 1:58000 scale color-infrared photographs, or
  contact a local mapping agency (transportation department, planning
  bureau, etc.) who might be able to provide larger scale imagery.  Also,
  you must be able to digitize photographs, or these sugestions are moot.
  In any event, NHAP images are available from USGS and EROS Data Center.
  
  EROS Data Center
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Sioux Falls, SD 57198
  (605)-594-6151

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