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The Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing at the National University of Singapore has signed a new agreement with GeoEye in the US to cover GeoEye-1, which was launched in September.

CRISP already has a seven year old agreement with GeoEye covering reception of data from the older Ikonos satellite.

The agreement covers the collection and sale of imagery from the satellite. It also covers the development of new products based on the imagery, and an archive of GeoEye-1 data.

The agreement comes ahead of CRISP's move to a new research centre. Professor Bernard Tan, the chair of CRISP's management board said the agreement would enable CRISP to continue its role in environmental and disaster monitoring.

GeoEye says the satellite is still undergoing check-out and calibration. It expects to begin accepting orders for data 'in the near future'. The company recently received a $12.5 million contract from the US military for data during 2009.

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