Blom has been awarded a NOK 10 million contract for an airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey including data acquisition and modelling of the flooding areas in the South of France required by IGN (the French National Geographic Institute). This is one of the main parts of a project covering all the flooding areas of the country. Blom has been awarded this contract after a very demanding European tender and sees the contract award as confirmation of Bloms strong position within airborne laser scanning. France is a new geografical market for Blom for this kind of services. For further information please contact: Dirk Blaauw, CEO Blom ASA, at tel: +47 22 13 19 23 About BLOM Blom is a leading European service provider within acquisition, processing and modeling of geographic information. Blom maintains unique European databases with collections of map, images and models. With particular focus on online services, Blom provides data and solutions to customers in government, enterprise and consumer markets and enables partners to create applications using Blom's databases, location based services and navigation solution. Blom has more than 1,000 employees and subsidiaries in 13 countries. The company headquarter is located in Oslo, Norway. Blom is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker BLO). For more information, visit www.blomasa.com IGN IGN's key missions are to produce, maintain and disseminate reference geographic information in France. Heir to a long line of cartographers, IGN has been involved in all cartography-related operations in France and its territories, since 1940. For more information, visit http://www.ign.fr