EarthData Awarded $5.9 Million Contract for Continued Radar Mapping in South America

EarthData International, Inc., part of the Fugro Group since 10
April 2007, has been awarded a $5.9 million contract to complete
aerial mapping over parts of South America for the United State's
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). As with previous NGA
contracts in the region, EarthData will use its GeoSAR radar mapping
system to produce high-resolution image and terrain maps in support of
land and information management activities.

"GeoSAR is perfectly suited for mapping equatorial regions like
these," stated EarthData President Anne Hale Miglarese. Mounted on a
jet aircraft and capturing X- and P-band radar data simultaneously,
GeoSAR penetrates the characteristic dense vegetation and
near-constant cloud cover that renders conventional aerial mapping
techniques cost-prohibitive or impossible. "Working in partnership
with NGA on similar projects over the past 4 years, we have updated
30-year-old maps and delivered original data where none had previously
existed due to these difficult conditions," Miglarese explained.

Data acquisition for the 70,755-square-kilometer project will
commence this month. In addition to EarthData's earlier work South
America, the company has performed GeoSAR mapping projects in Papua
New Guinea and other Asia Pacific areas. GeoSAR is owned and operated
exclusively by EarthData and is the latest innovation in the company's
long history of developing, adapting, and commercializing emerging
geospatial technologies.

About EarthData International: EarthData (www.earthdata.com)
provides a full range of mapping and GIS services to support
customers' needs in a wide variety of natural resource management,
urban planning, economic development, national defense, and
engineering activities.

About GeoSAR Radar Mapping: GeoSAR is the world's only airborne
radar mapping system that collects dual-band interferometric synthetic
aperture radar (IFSAR) data in a single pass, day or night, and in
almost any weather condition. EarthData GeoSAR customers receive a
suite of five standard products--a top-surface image and elevation
model, a corresponding image and terrain model beneath the trees, and
a series of laser profiles for every flight line.