Spot Image and Imageone announced July 22 the signing of a commercial partnership agreement, under which Imageone gains exclusive rights to distribute Formosat-2 data to the Japanese market. The agreement also grants three minutes per day priority reservation of the satellite’s imaging time over Japan.

Taiwan’s National Space Organization launched the Earth observation satellite in May 2004. The spacecraft provides black-and-white images at 2-meter resolution and color images at 8-meter resolution.

Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.