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Bureau of Land Management Contracts Earth Search Sciences For Hyperspectral Survey Over Montana Coal Deposits

KALISPELL, Mont. Earth Search Sciences, Inc. http://www.earthsearch.com/ a leading
commercial provider of revolutionary hyperspectral technology, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the United States
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to classify hydrocarbon indicators in an area of southeastern Montana using the company’s
breakthrough remote sensing instrument in an airborne survey. The initial contract amount is for approximately $200,000.

Larry Vance, chairman of Earth Search Sciences, explained: "The BLM is using airborne hyperspectral remote sensing to collect
information for use in the protection of the environment. The application of the data is to correlate the location of potential coal bed
methane deposits with surface material that has high permeability. The coal extraction process calls for water to be pumped to the
surface where it needs to be spread over an area that has a high percolation factor. This allows the contaminated water to leach back into
the natural system rather than pooling on the surface and creating a potential environmental problem. Unfortunately, Montana is known for
areas of dense clay that allows for almost no permeability. The BLM needs to know where the coal deposits are and where the areas of
clay are in relation to one another."

Coal bed methane has great potential for energy uses. It has long been known that the vast deposits of coal bed methane could someday
be used as additional alternative to oil. With the current situation in the Middle East and the threat of terrorism to pipelines and wells, a
safe and abundant energy source like the coal bed methane in Montana can become attractive for development.

Airborne hyperspectral remote sensing technology can be used to map many important minerals and rock types, certain vegetation
species, stressed vegetation, and many important man-made materials. It can also provide much information on water quality, another
issue of concern for the BLM.

While existing satellite and remote sensing technology provides the ability to identify objects primarily by shape or spectral response, the
revolutionary hyperspectral imaging, by measuring the degree of spectral reflectance of solar energy across the spectrum, allows us to
identify materials by their diagnostic reflectance patterns. Earth Search hyperspectral information products can be used for a variety of
resource, environmental, and security applications. For example, the company has conducted an environmental survey for the Dian
Fossey Gorilla Fund surveying the Virunga conservation area in Rwanda using its airborne hyperspectral sensor to find and measure the
distribution of bamboo and nettles necessary to sustain mountain gorilla’s natural habitat. Earth Search has also been surveying parts of
Montana in a vegetation assessment and has frequent assignments throughout the West and Southwest for mineral and oil exploration.

This news release includes forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The information reflects numerous
assumptions as to industry performance, general business and economic conditions, regulatory and legal requirements, taxes and other
matters, many of which are beyond the control of the company. Similarly, this information assumes certain future business decisions that
are subject to change. There can be no assurance that the results predicted here will be realized. Actual results may vary from those
represented, and those variations may be material.

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