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SPOT 6 satellite

The ideal solution for country-wide, demanding applications

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The SPOT 6 satellite is specifically designed to efficiently cover huge areas in record time making them particularly suitable to serve cartographic and monitoring applications.

With SPOT 6 satellite, we continue a long history data delivery started 40 years ago with the launch of the original SPOT 1 satellite in 1986. Today the archive imagery gives you access to unique historical high resolution data collected over the last decade and spanning over billions of km2. SPOT 6 secures data continuity will be until 2025.

A SPOT satellite acquisition covers large areas in a single pass at resolutions up to 1.5m. Such precise coverage is ideal for application at national and regional scales and best suited for mapping, agriculture and land administration applications. SPOT 6 operates in a 180-degree phased orbit, allowing for up to daily revisit anywhere on Earth. The satellite’s large swath enables a daily acquisition capacity of 3 Million km².” .

Our extensive and attractive One Tasking offer, jointly optimised with our Pléiades satellites, allows you to select the service that is most suitable for your specific requirements and project schedules.

Offering an ideal trade-off between coverage, resolution and speed, Pléiades products are especially useful for applications in defence, civil protection, hazard management, urban mapping, precision agriculture and network and infrastructure administration.

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SPOT 6 satellite is operated on the same orbit with the very-high-resolution Pléiades satellites (50cm products): an ideal combination of detail and broad coverage, with intraday revisit to any point on Earth and image availability within hours.

Key features

Stereo and tri-stereo capacity
Daily revisit anywhere

Maximum acquisition capacity of 3 million km² per day per satellite

Ideal for 1:25,000 topographic mapping: feature extraction (2D & 3D stereo plotting, geometric accuracy down to 1.2m CE90, elevation and contour lines)

Your advantages with SPOT

Unique solution on the market for national coverage (2D/3D) with precision

Huge coverage capacity strengthened by efficient management of weather forecasts

Ultimate reactivity from new acquisition ordering to product delivery

Accuracy: orthorectified imagery as a standard, high imagery quality

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Detection and Observation of Toxic Gulfweed using SPOT 6/7

The gorgeous island of Martinique in the Eastern Caribbean Sea has been hit by a plague, called sargasse. This toxic and pestilential gulfweed has been increasingly polluting the beaches of the island since 2011.

Simplot Relies on Airbus to Deliver Valuable Agronomy to Their Farmers

Simplot and Airbus jointly developed a scalable, automated system to collect, process, analyse and digitally display satellite imagery from Pléiades and SPOT 6/7.

The Great Mosaic of Loire-Atlantique

Airbus has sponsored the installation of a huge SPOT 6/7 mosaic in the entrance hall of the Loire-Atlantique Departmental Agency, providing an original and entertaining way to see an area of around 6,880km².

Estimating the Agricultural Waste Burning Area from the Sky

Inhalation of the air pollutants caused by agricultural waste burning can be very harmful to human health.

2018 Hokkaido Earthquake and Post-disaster Monitoring

Japan is constantly under threats from natural disasters. To protect people’s lives and minimise economic losses, the authorities need immediate information from the affected areas.

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