Commercialization of remote sensing from the Eurimage view

摘要

Eurimage, under contract to the European Space Agency, (ESA), distributes and markets Landsat data acquired at Kiruna, Fucino and Maspa-lomas. The commercial aspects of such a business are very new and Eurimage faces a challenging and exciting future. This article describes a brief history of the commercialization of remote sensing data and discusses both the present operations and future plans of Eurimage.