Imagery Database to be Leveraged to Provide Rapid Image Delivery to Customers Worldwide

Fairfax, VA, September 11, 2000:  GeoData Systems, Inc. announced today the near-term availability of its Web Services division.  GDS Web Services will allow the selection of imagery and derived products from its national imagery database.  GDS customers will be able to specify data content, extent and format online and have the requested data automatically prepared, clipped, formatted and made available for delivery either by FTP or overnight mail within minutes of the initial order entry.

GeoData Systems, Incorporated Background Information
Founded by a team of experts in the fields of image science, software engineering, and web-based technology, GDS is the world's leader in the high-speed, high-accuracy generation of imagery-derived products.  GDS is also the world's leader in the implementation of multi-terabyte enterprise storage and web-based dissemination solutions. Through the use of GDS proprietary image science and web-based technologies, GDS is able to provide its customers with high quality imagery (both satellite and aircraft) and imagery-derived products (such as land cover, digital elevation models, and lines of communications) more rapidly and at a lower cost per square kilometer than the competition.