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, and partners. The goal is to provide on-the-spot service with worldwide availability. Spot Image works with a network of more than 30 direct receiving stations handling images acquired by the SPOT satellites. Spot Image collaborates with ESA's GMES programme, shares geographic information with the OGC and contributes to the interoperability of web services; with Infoterra Global it continues to offer services for precision-agriculture.
Satellites
The 3 SPOT satellites in orbit provide images with a large choice of resolutions – from 2.5 m to 10 m. Spot Image also distributes multiresolution data from other optical satellites, in particular from Formosat-2 and Kompsat-2, for which it has exclusive distribution rights, and from radar satellites. Spot Image is also the exclusive distributor of data from the very-high resolution Pleiades satellites. The launch of Pléiades-1, via a Soyuz rocket, was confirmed on December 16, 2011. The second was launched mid-2012. Spot Image also offers infrastructures for receiving and processing, as well as added value options.
Products
In addition to images, Spot Image proposes innovative added-value products to meet new user-needs:
ortho-images whose location accuracy is less than 10 m RMS
homogeneous territorial coverage, orthorectified, which come in natural colours with 2.5 m resolution
3D products built from automatic correlation of stereoscopic pairs acquired by SPOT 5's HRS instrument
Among the services offered by Spot File:
Programming of SPOT satellites: direct-access satellite programming and regular revisit capability over the same point on the globe enable the acquisition of images over a selected area of interest.
The SPOT archives: more than 18 million images of the whole world, collected by SPOT satellites since 1986, are archived and accessible on line, offering recent or historical geographic information.
On-line services:
giving the general public access to images chosen for aesthetic, cultural or thematic reasons,
In partnership with Google Earth, ’One World, One Year‘ offers the best images from the SPOT satellites whose acquisition data is not more than one year old, for almost the entire planet.
Planet Action, an initiative launched by Spot Image
Its goal is to encourage the Earth observation industry and geographic information professionals to support local projects searching for adaptive solutions to climate change problems. The products and materials available to these professionals – satellite images, geographic information systems, image processing and display software – are indispensable for studying the impact of global warming on our planet, on local and global scales. Planet Action supports projects that study:
