DigitalGlobe, Eager for Foreign Biz, Presses NOAA For Quarter Meter Resolution

DigitalGlobe, Eager for Foreign Biz, Presses NOAA For Quarter Meter Resolution
DigitalGlobe, Eager for Foreign Biz, Presses NOAA For Quarter Meter Resolution

WASHINGTON: In the next few weeks an unlikely government agency known more for weather than regulating satellites, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), may decide the international future of America’s commercial satellite imagery industry, dominated now by DigitalGlobe. NOAA licenses American commercial remote sensing satellites, which includes DigitalGlobe’s five satellites currently in orbit. One…