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SPOT DISTRIBUTOR

 


Spot Distributorship

 

EUROSENSE is shareholder of Spot Image from the start-up and is official distributor of SPOT products since 2008. Spot Image is a worldwide distributor of products and services using imagery from Earth observation satellites and works through a network of subsidiaries, local offices (Australia, Brazil, China, United States, Japan, Peru, Singapore), and partners. The goal is to provide on-the-spot service with worldwide availability. Being a Spot Image distributor, EUROSENSE acts as an intermediate or local agent between Spot Image in Toulouse and clients who are interested in these satellite data. EUROSENSE is distributor for the different SPOT satellites (SPOT 1-5), FORMOSAT-2 and KOMPSAT-2. Some more explanation on these satellites is given below.

 

SPOT 2 - 4 - 5

The SPOT constellation offers an unsurpassed acquisition and revisit capacity to acquire everyday imagery from anywhere in the world. SPOT imagery offers an optimum combination of resolution and coverage. A single SPOT scene covers a footprint of 60 km x 60 km in a full range of resolutions from 20 m down to 2.5 m, with a location accuracy often better than 30 m. Such precise, synoptic coverage is ideal for applications at regional and local scales from 1:100 000 to 1:10 000.

The SPOT satellites have built up a global archive of millions of images since 1986. This archive is a vast storehouse of recent and historical data for multidate analysis. The SPOT satellites can also be tasked to meet your specific time and place requirements. Spot Image's tasking service ensures your needs are effectively addressed at every step, from requirements analysis and satellite tasking proposals through to image validation and regular assessment of attempted image acquisitions.

 

SPOT5 - 2,5m - Canberra - Australia  SPOT5 - 5m - Ljubljana - Slovakia SPOT4 - 10m - Riyadh - Saudi Arabia SPOT2 - 20m - Combermere - Myanmar

© Cnes 2003 - Distribution Spot Image

© Cnes 2003 - Distribution Spot Image

© Cnes 2000 - Distribution Spot Image © Cnes 1993 - Distribution Spot Image

 

SPOTMaps

SPOTMaps are seamless, uniform, orthorectified coverages across whole national and regional territories produced with 2,5-metre colour imagery acquired by the SPOT 5 satellite. Framed according to your area, SPOTMaps are the ideal geographic reference for your visualization, mapping and planning needs. SPOTMaps products are suitable for working at scales up to 1:10 000.

 

SPOT DEM

A SPOT Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a digital elevation model produced by automatic correlation of stereopairs acquired by the HRS instrument on SPOT 5. Unlike a digital terrain model (DTM), which describes the distribution of terrain or "bare earth" heights, a DEM includes "first surface" elevations including vegetation and man-made structures. A SPOT DEM is a gridded file with step sizes of 1 second of arc or 20 meters. SPOT DEMs significantly improve registration of data layers in digital mapping. Therefore they are also widely used in geographic information systems (GIS) for land management and terrain modelling.

 

SPOT DEM Precision

SPOT DEM Precision is the only DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) level 2 product of its kind on the market. It contains two layers of information: a High Resolution Stereoscopic (HRS) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and quality and traceability metadata. The quality and traceability metadata provide information at pixel level on horizontal and vertical accuracy, source data, production processes and all corrections and checks. SPOT Precision DEM is the only DEM to provide detailed information on the identification and location of the kind of residual errors (gaps, artefacts, etc.) found in all DEMs generated by automatic correlation. SPOT DEM Precision offers unmatched performance and coverage of more than 50 million km² by 2009.

 

Reference 3D

Reference3D is a geocoded database containing three layers of information: a DTED level 2 HRS DEM, GPS-compatible HRS Orthoimage and quality and traceability metadata. Reference3D is the keystone of any application that calls for very-high-accuracy elevation data. Reference3D is unrivalled in the world for accuracy, coverage, with more than 50 million km² already covered by 2009. Reference3D orthoimages can be used to orthorectify imagery from most Earth observation satellites-e.g. SPOT, FORMOSAT-2, KOMPSAT-2, QuickBird, IKONOS, Envisat-when positional data are not available. Reference3D is an excellent tool for building onboard databases for UAVs, missiles and aircraft, and for mission planning well suited to defence ministries and armament manufacturers.

 

FORMOSAT-2

FORMOSAT-2 is the first and only high-resolution satellite with a daily revisit capability. The spatial resolution of FORMOSAT-2 - 2 meters in panchromatic (black & white) and 8 meters in multispectral (colour) mode - is an additional asset for surveillance. Ideally suited to strategic and operational intelligence missions, it is able to identify and characterize military sites, naval bases, air bases and refugee camps; perform reconnaissance of ships, aircraft and other assets; and surveillance of strategic or industrial facilities. FORMOSAT-2's blue spectral band allows to produce natural-colour composites without special processing.

 

FORMOSAT-2 - 2m - Paris - France FORMOSAT-2 - 8m - Mokpo - South Korea

© NSPO 2006 - Distribution Spot Image

© NSPO 2005 - Distribution Spot Image

 

 KOMPSAT-2

The very high resolution satellite KOMPSAT-2 acquires imagery in black and white (panchromatic band) at a resolution of 1 m and in colour (multispectral bands) across 4 bands in the visible (red, green, blue and near-infrared) at a resolution of 4 m. Simultaneous acquisition of panchromatic and multispectral images means that merged 1-m images are available as a standard product. KOMPSAT-2 images cover a footprint of 15 km x 15 km.

 

KOMPSAT-2 - 1m - Sydney Olympic Park - Australia KOMPSAT-2 - 4m - Durrat al Bahrain - Bahrain
© KARI 2006 - Distribution Spot Image © KARI 2007 - Distribution Spot Image

 

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