Satellite Data Imagery Bulk Buy

The Space for Smarter Government Programme (SSGP) resides within the UK Space Agency's Growth Directorate. It is a national programme, established in 2014, which is designed to stimulate uptake of space services and data within the UK Public Sector.

The UKSA wishes to acquire access to archive high resolution (sub 5 metre) geospatial datasets over the UK, to be obtained primarily from remote sensing satellites (EO data), to facilitate ongoing UKSA activities, including but not exclusive to:

• Projects
• Data Challenges
• Application Hackathons

The UKSA wishes to procure the best overall mixture of:

• maximum geographical coverage over the UK including its coastal regions
• maximum number of different resolutions
• maximum number of different imaging modes (for SAR)
• most extensive time series available
• for the best value price

Lot 1: Optical/Multispectral Lot 2: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Additional information: The tender closing date and time for Bidders to submit their response is 23/08/2018 at 14:00 BST.

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