Can the SPOT 5 satellite be pointed at a target area?
SPOT Image’s programming team handles some 2,500 programming requests a year, offering a custom support service that takes into account application needs, satellite programming parameters, the physical features of the customer’s area of interest, level of service, availability of satellite capacity, weather conditions, and the technical capabilities of each SPOT satellite. How are the 2.5-meter images acquired? Imagery at a resolution of 2.5 meters in the panchromatic band is obtained using a sampling concept unique to SPOT 5, called Supermode. This concept processes two 5-meter panchromatic images acquired simultaneously to generate a single image at a resolution of 2.5 meters. What are the different processing levels that can be requested? • Level 1A – Detector normalization is performed in each spectral band for radiometric corrections. This is the least processed form of data with no geometric corrections applied. When viewed, the image is a square. The scene is oriented along the
