Datron Gets Order for Satellite Imagery Device

Datron Systems Inc., a Simi Valley producer of high-tech communications equipment, has received an order in excess of $1 million for a remote sensing terminal to process imagery data received from France’s SPOT satellite.

Thomas V. Baker, Datron’s chief financial officer, declined to name the source of the order, but said the work will be done in Simi Valley by the firm’s Datron/Transco unit.

SPOT’s high-resolution pictures are used mainly to obtain information about resources on the Earth. Recently, Baker said, the satellite was used by the United Nations to plan deliveries of food and equipment to Bosnia.

Datron plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to Escondido sometime this summer but the Simi Valley plant, which employs 180, will not be affected by the move, the company has said.