National Defense Agency wants to use Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Technology to porvide geospatial support for humanitarian, peacekeeping and national security efforts.
According to reports from News.com:
“The NGA is headquartered in Bethesda, Md., and “provides timely, relevant and accurate imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial information in support of national security objectives,” according to the government agency’s Web site.
Microsoft also announced an agreement last week to provide its Virtual Earth technology to Real Tech, a provider of real estate tools. Similarly, the software giant in April signed a deal with Zillow to provide the real estate comparison Web site with Virtual Earth technology. At the time, Zillow explained that the Virtual Earth platform would provide it with both satellite and bird’s-eye imagery.”
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