GIS / Earth Observation / Remote Sensing / Agriculture / Precision  Farming /
RapidEye / VISIOPLAINE / S2B

Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, August 10, 2009 – RapidEye, the only geospatial
solutions provider to own and operate their constellation of Earth
observation satellites, announced today that they have successfully ran two
pilot projects for VISIOPLAINE, a brand of S2B, Société des Services aux
Betteraviers, in France, to support nitrogen fertilization of canola and
wheat fields.

S2B offers remote sensing-based services to its customers in the French
agriculture market. VISIOPLAINE is a project and brand of S2B that operates a
web-based platform to distribute services to cooperatives and farmers. S2B
has identified RapidEye as a geo-information provider in the industry capable
of delivering remote sensing-based information on agricultural areas at a
high temporal frequency.

RapidEye provided S2B’s VISIOPLAINE platform with biomass maps to support
nitrogen fertilization of canola fields for five regions from early winter
2008 to early spring 2009. In June 2009, RapidEye delivered chlorophyll maps
for 2 different areas in France. The results and field measurements are being
tested, analyzed, and confirmed this year before introducing this solution
into the wheat market in 2010. The cooperatives and scientific institutes
contributed information collected in the fields, whereas RapidEye was
responsible for the analysis from the remote sensing perspective, and
delivered an intermediate product in the form of  biomass and chlorophyll
maps.

Based on these maps, S2B was able to make recommendations for nitrogen
fertilization in canola and wheat fields to the farming community through
their VISIOPLAINE platform.

“In early 2009, S2B and RapidEye entered into a strategic partnership
agreement for all remote sensing projects that VISIOPLAINE plans over the
next three years. Through our partnership with S2B’s VISIOPLAINE platform, we
will increase RapidEye’s visibility in the French Precision Farming market.”
said Michael Prechtel, Head of Sales and Marketing at RapidEye.

Future projects with S2B include Precision Farming services for sunflower,
potatoes and sugarbeet. RapidEye’s contributions to these projects include
identifying variabilities of biophysical parameters within fields such as
nitrogen content and leaf area index.

For more information on RapidEye’s Agriculture Solutions, please visit

http://www.rapideye.de/home/solutions/agriculture/.

About Visioplaine
Visioplaine is a project and brand of S2B (Societe Des Services Des
Betteraviers), which is a division of CGB (Confederation Generale Des
Planteurs Des Betteraves), both located in Paris, France. CGB is a leader in
the French agricultural service market for sugar beet farming: 80% of the
30,000 French sugar beet producers are linked to CGB. S2B projects that their
Visioplaine brand will be used by over 50 European agricultural cooperatives
by 2010. For more information about Visioplaine, please visit
www.visioplaine.com.

About RapidEye AG
RapidEye is an ISO-certified geospatial information provider focused on
integrating customized and industry specific solutions into the workflow of
global customers in agriculture, forestry, energy, infrastructure,
government, security and emergency. RapidEye experts and the satellite
system – a constellation of five satellites capable of downloading over 4
million km² of high resolution, multi-spectral imagery per day, and a ground
segment for processing and archiving data – allow for cost-effective
customized services. The unique combination of large area coverage, high
spatial resolution and the possibility of daily revisit to an area provide
for superior management information solutions. Currently, more than 100
experts from more than 20 countries are employed by RapidEye, with plans to
grow the team to 140 in late 2009.

RapidEye benefits from a public-private partnership with the Space Agency of
the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which is supported by the Federal Ministry
of Economics and Technology. RapidEye is also cofinanced by the European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF). For more information on ERDF please contact
efreinfo@mw.brandenburg.de.

For more information about RapidEye, please visit www.rapideye.de.

Photos:
Download RapidEye’s biomass map for canola, and chlorophyll map for wheat at
www.rapideye.de/home/news/press-area/. All rights are reserved by RapidEye.

RapidEye Contact
RapidEye AG
Molkenmarkt 30
14776 Brandenburg a. d. Havel, Germany
press@rapideye.de
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