Tag Archives: SPOT

Image Hunter – Now Searches Pléiades 1, SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 Data

Posted on March 7 2013 by Katie

Have you had a chance to test out our online imagery search engine, Image Hunter?

If not, give it a test drive now as all orders placed with Image Hunter will receive a 5% discount!

We are very excited to announce that the high resolution satellites, Pléiades 1A and 1B and the medium resolution satellites SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 have been added to Image Hunter. With the addition of the Pléiades 1 constellation, you can now preview and order data from ever sub-meter multispectral satellite that is commercially available. We are excited about this change as it will … Read more

Image Hunter – Now Searches Pléiades 1, SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 Data

Posted on February 7 2013 by Katie

Have you had a chance to test out our online imagery search engine, Image Hunter?

If not, give it a test drive now as all orders placed with Image Hunter will receive a 5% discount!

We are very excited to announce that this month we added the medium resolution satellites SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 to the Image Hunter database; as well as the high resolution satellites, Pléiades 1A and 1B. With the addition of the Pléiades 1 constellation, you can now preview and order data from ever sub-meter multispectral satellite that is commercially available. We are excited about … Read more

Monthly Update on Astrium GEO’s Countrywide 2.5-meter SPOTMaps

Posted on January 10 2013 by Katie

In this monthly article, we provide details on updates released each month to Astrium GEO’s 2.5-meter (m) SPOTMaps product. SPOTMaps is an orthorectified natural color imagery layer with coverage over more than 100 countries – totaling an impressive 101 million square kilometers (sq km). For projects requiring a value-priced basemap better than what 15-m Landsat can offer, there is no other choice than SPOTMaps.



A 2.5-meter SPOTMaps simulated natural color image collected over Paris, France. © CNES 2012, Distribution Astrium Services / Spot Image S.A., France, all rights reserved

SPOTMaps Updates – December 2012

No new updates since our last … Read more

Technical Commissioning of SPOT 6 Successfully Completed

Posted on January 10 2013 by Katie


A small portion of the first 1.5-meter natural color image collected by SPOT 6 was over Bora Bora, it was posted by Astrium GEO on September 13, 2012. © CNES 2012, Distribution Astrium Services / Spot Image S.A., France, all rights reserved.

Another small portion of the first 1.5-meter natural color image collected by SPOT 6 was over Bora Bora, it was posted by Astrium GEO on September 13, 2012. © CNES 2012, Distribution Astrium Services / Spot Image S.A., France, all rights reserved.

December 14, 2012 – SPOT 6 was officially declared “good to go” after the completion of … Read more

Reaching Orbit – The New SPOT 6 Satellite

Posted on October 16 2012 by Admin

Astrium-Geo has undertaken an unprecedented step by launching two self-funded satellites as a private company. SPOT 6 was launched successfully on September 9, 2012 and will be followed by its twin, SPOT 7, in the coming months.

 

 

 

 

 

There are a number of new features on these twin satellites that separate them from earlier SPOT sensors. SPOT 6 and 7 imagery can be ordered already pansharpened and orthorectified with a horizontal accuracy of 10-meter CE90. The new satellites have four multispectral bands like their predecessors; however, they will simultaneously collect panchromatic imagery with 1.5-meter resolution, which … Read more

The First SPOT 6 Image!

Posted on October 9 2012 by Admin

Posted on September 13th by Astrium Services, the 1.5-meter natural color image of Bora Bora is impressive to say the least – especially given that SPOT 6 launched into space just 3 days earlier!

We are excited about the possibilities of SPOT 6 when you consider: (1) it can image up to 3 million square kilometers per day; (2) its 60-km wide footprint; and (3) its ability to produce 1.5-meter true natural color images. SPOT 6 also features a blue spectral band which is the first time for a SPOT satellite. When SPOT 7 joins its twin in space during … Read more

Astrium’s SPOT 6 Joins Pléiades 1A in Orbit

Posted on October 8 2012 by Admin
  • The SPOT 6 Earth observation satellite, built by Astrium, was successfully launched.
  • SPOT 6 joins Pléiades 1A in orbit; and when Pléiades 1B and SPOT 7 launch in the coming months, it will form a coherent and smart optical constellation providing images distributed by Astrium Services.
  • With this new constellation, Astrium Services, will offer unique applications in an unrivalled delivery time.

September 9, 2012 – Built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, the SPOT 6 Earth observation satellite was successfully launched by a PSLV launcher from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. It joins Pléiades 1A in orbit, … Read more

SPOT 5 Images the High Park Fire, Colorado

Posted on August 28 2012 by Admin

With offices based in downtown Boulder, Colorado, the Apollo Mapping team is all too aware of the dry summer season that we are sweating our way through. There have already been three nationally televised fires on the Front Range this season: Waldo Canyon outside Colorado Springs; Flagstaff right outside Boulder; and the High Park Fire outside Fort Collins. Our friends at Astrium Services were kind enough to share a SPOT 5 image collected over the High Park Fire on June 19th when the fire was only 55% contained, and we put together several previews of this data to show our … Read more