In this monthly article, we provide details on updates to Airbus Defense and Space GEO’s SPOTMaps product. SPOTMaps is an orthorectified 2.5-meter (m) and now 1.5-m natural color imagery layer with coverage over more than 110 countries – totaling an impressive (and growing) 150 million plus 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.
SPOTMaps Product Updates – July 2016
To date, more than 40,526,000 sq km of SPOTMaps1.5 data have been released with some 1,168,000 sq km in the past month alone.
- These countries are currently in production and will be added to the SPOTMaps1.5 database soon:
- Greece
- Italy
- Malta
- Mexico (part of the country)
- Portugal
- Spain
- Taiwan
- Turkey
- Zambia (part of the country)
- Production of SPOTMaps2.5 is complete now that SPOTMaps1.5 are being released.
For those who have never worked with SPOTMaps, below is a summary of key product specifications of the 1.5-m and 2.5-m versions as well as product differentiators.
Key Product Specifications
Here is a summary of the key product specifications of SPOTMaps1.2 and SPOTMaps2.5:
- SPOTMaps1.5
- Resolution: 1.5-m
- Spectral Bands: true natural color (RGB)
- Horizontal Accuracy: 6 to 10-m CE90 (circular error 90%)
- Projection/Datum: UTM WGS84
- Source Data: SPOT6/7 satellite imagery
- File Format: GeoTIFF
- SPOTMaps2.5
- Resolution: 2.5-m
- Spectral Bands: simulated natural color (RGB)
- Horizontal Accuracy: 10 to 15-m RMSE (root mean square error)
- Projection/Datum: UTM WGS84
- Source Data: SPOT5 satellite imagery
- File Format: GeoTIFF
Product Differentiators
These are the product specifications that set apart SPOTMaps from its competition:
- Recent and ready for immediate delivery and integration with your GIS
- Seamless, orthorectified coverage across countries and entire regions in 1.5-m and 2.5-m resolution
- Suitable for work up to 1:10,000 scale
- Custom product framing with minimum orders of ~100 sq km
- Product series is updated nearly every month
- Source data can be delivered with all SPOTMaps mosaics
- Volume and academic discounts are offered
- Multi-user licenses are available
If you would like pricing details and/or additional product details, such as date ranges and accuracy specifications, please let us know at sales@apollomapping.com or (303) 993-3863.
Leave a Reply