Resolution 1.5 m, 50 km swath width, Daily revisit, Stereo and Tri-stereo acquisition
SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will form a constellation of Earth observation satellites designed to ensure the continued availability of high-resolution, wide-field data until 2024. The constellation, derived from Pleiades with a different payload, offers reactive scheduling with 6 scheduling plans per day for each satellite and an acquisition capacity of 3 million km per day per satellite.
The SPOT constellation is widely used for agriculture, land use planning and natural hazard assessment, with a very high acquisition capacity in a limited time.
Technical Specifications
| Orbit / Altitude | 694 km, Sun Synchronous Orbit, Equatorial Node 10:30 UTC |
| Launch date | SPOT-6 launch Sept 2012 on Indian PSLV C21 launch vehicle, SPOT-7 launch in 2014 located at 180° on the same orbit |
| Lifetime | 10 years |
| Number of satellites | 2 |
| Revisit rate | Daily |
| Spatial Resolution | Panchromatic 1.5m, Multispectral: 6m |
| Spectral Bands | Panchromatic 0.455 - 0.745 µm Blue 0.455 - 0.520 µm Green 0.530 - 0.590 µm Red 0.625 - 0.695 µm Near Infrared 0.760 - 0.890 µm |
| Pixel coding | 12 Bits |
| Swath Width | 60 km |
| Acquisition mode | Monoscopic, Stereoscopic, Tri-Stereo, single scenes, continuous bands (600 km) |
| Geolocation Accuracy | 10m CE90 |