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Aerials Express Teams-up With WeoGeo to Market Aerial Imagery Collection

January 30, 2008
by DanDye

Tampa, FL – January 28, 2008 – WeoGeo, a company poised to reinvent the market for global mapping and geo-content, was selected by Aerials Express to market and distribute over 16,000 digital air-photos (a nearly 12 terabyte collection). Aerials Express is the leading provider of current nationwide high-resolution digital aerial and satellite imagery, with a marketing collection that represents over 420,000 square miles of digital imagery products, at spatial resolutions as high as 12 inches.

“This is an important addition to the WeoGeo Market,” said Paul Bissett, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of WeoGeo. “These high-resolution air-photos cover 120 key urban areas in the continental United States – areas where this data is in high demand.”

Aerials Express chose WeoGeo to improve the user experience for geospatial professionals as they search, discover, and purchase their high-resolution imagery. WeoGeo will also host the Aerials Express air-photos on its Amazon Web Services e-commerce platform to provide rapid delivery of the imagery products.

“WeoGeo is an excellent opportunity for our company,” said Bill Landis, President of Aerials Express. “We are looking to WeoGeo’s advanced technology and unique distribution model to enhance the availability of our products into a wider range of GIS related markets.”

WeoGeo creates a one-stop marketplace for the mapping industry. It supplies surveyors, engineers, cartographers, and scientists with the ability to conveniently store, search, and exchange global mapping and geo-content. Geo-content providers can easily list their data for sale, and users can quickly find the data they need. For more information, visit www.weogeo.com.

Aerials-Express was founded in 1999 in Tempe, Arizona by aerial photography pioneer Jerry Landis, Aerials Express’ exclusive collection of up-to-date, high-resolution color aerial imagery serves both commercial and government markets. With their Cessna 421 Golden Eagle and Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor, the company maintains the most aggressive image acquisition schedule in the industry.

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