mined by a Memorandum of Understanding between NASA and COBAE* signed by the 
= foreign relations agencies of the respective countries. By this memorandum 
only INPE and the EROS Data Center (for on board recorded images) can 
distribute Landsat products of the area covered by the Cuiaba station.Also, 
the prices of INPE's products must be compatible to the EROS Data Center's 
"for equivalent products. 
Currently there are a little over 300 registered users 
(persons or institutions), of which 67 are foreign. Table 1 shows how the 
number of users has evolved since the beginning of the operations in 1973. 
The station has more than 1,500 Landsat-1 recorded orbits and over 850 of 
Landsat-2. Altogether, 700 orbits have been processed giving some 15,000 
Landsat scenes. The number of distributed imagery has also grown consider 
ably, as can be seen in table 2. | 
TABLE 1 
NUMBER OF USERS 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
YEAR 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 
Total number 3 27 69 156 301 
of users 
TABLE 2 
NUMBER OF IMAGES DISTRIBUTED PER YEAR TO EXTERNAL (NON INPE) USERS 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
YEAR 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 
Distributed 323 11,230 12,094 17,564 [10,045 
E imagery 
  
The electronic processing, from the reception to the 
production of the first generation film (70 mm), in an electron beam image 
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Brazilian Commission for Space Activities