Owned by AIRBUS Defence & Space, SPOT-7 offers a 1.5m resolution in natural colour and can be programmed for stereo or tri-stereo acquisitions for 3D terrain modelling.
Successfully launched on 30th June 2014 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India, SPOT 7 joined SPOT 6 in orbit. SPOT 7 is a high resolution wide-swath imaging spacecraft with the ability to acquire optical imagery for improving the knowledge and management of Earth’s resources, monitoring natural phenomena, climatology use cases and oceanography to name a few.
The major improvements in this generation of SPOT satellites have an ability to respond accordingly to changing weather conditions, a reduced timeline for urgent tasking requests and an acquisition capacity of 3 million sq km per satellite. This provides an increased data capacity and simplified data access.
Features and Benefits
- Daily revisit to any point on the globe.
- Has a wide swath width of 60 km at nadir.
- Combined with SPOT 6 can acquire up to 6m km² per day of imagery.
Technical Specifications
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Specification |
Details |
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Orbit |
Sun-synchronous |
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Altitude |
694km |
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Mission Lifetime |
10 years |
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Spatial Resolution |
1.5m Panchromatic 6m Multispectral |
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Accuracy |
10 m CE90 at nadir |
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Spectral Bands |
Panchromatic: 450-745 nm Blue: 450-520 nm Green: 530-590 nm Red: 625-695 nm Near infrared: 760-890 nm |
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Stereo Available |
Yes – Stereo and Tri-Stereo |
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Largest Scale |
1:5000 |
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Dynamic Range |
12 bit |
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Coverage: |
Up to 3m km² per day |