SPOTMaps coverage steadily building

Countries covered by SPOTMaps as of October 22, 2008

Country/Territory	Majority acquisition date	Location accuracy (RMS)
Afghanistan (South)		10 m
Australia	2005/2006	10/15 m
Belgium	2005	15 m
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2006	15 m
Botswana	2006	15 m
Brazil	2007	10 m
Chile (North)	2006	15 m
China (Beijing)	2007	15 m
Croatia	2006	15 m
Cyprus	2006	10 m
Czech Republic	2007	10 m
Egypt (East)	2006	10 m
France	2005	15 m
Gaza	2006	10 m
Greece	2006	10 m
Hungary	2007	10 m
Iraq	2006	10 m
Israel	2006	10 m
Italy	2006	15 m
Jordan	2006	10 m
Kuwait	2006	10 m
Lebanon	2006	10 m
Lesotho	2006	15 m
Luxembourg	2005	15 m
Malta	2006	10 m
Mexico (Center)	2006/2007	10 m
Montenegro	2007	15 m
Morocco	2006	15 m
Namibia	2006	15 m
North Korea	2004	10 m
Oman		10 m
Portugal	2005	15 m
Romania	2007	10 m
Serbia	2007	15 m
Slovakia	2007	10 m
Slovenia	2006	15 m
South Africa	2005	15 m
Spain	2005	15 m
Swaziland	2006	15 m
Syria	2006	10 m
Taiwan	2004	10 m
Tunisia	2006	10 m
Turkey	2006	15 m
UAE	2006	10 m
West Bank	2006	10 m
Zimbabwe	2006	15 m

SPOT-5 Satellite Sensor Characteristics

Launch Date	May 3, 2002
Launch Vehicle	Ariane 4
Launch Location	Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guyana
Orbital Altitude	822 kilometers
Orbital Inclination	98.7°, sun-synchronous
Speed	7.4 Km/second (26,640 Km/hour)
Equator Crossing Time	10:30 AM (descending node)
Orbit Time	101.4 minutes
Revisit Time	2-3 days, depending on latitude
Swath Width	60 Km x 60 Km to 80 Km at nadir
Metric Accuracy	<>
Digitization	8 bits
Resolution	Pan: 2.5m from 2 x 5m scenes Pan: 5m (nadir) MS: 10m (nadir) SWI: 20m (nadir)
Image Bands	Pan: 480-710 nm Green: 500-590 nm Red: 610-680 nm Near IR: 780-890 nm Shortwave IR: 1,580-1,750 nm

About the SPOT-5 Satellite Sensor

The SPOT-5 Earth observation satellite was successfully placed into orbit by an Ariane 4 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou during the night of 3 to 4 May 2002.

The VEGETATION 2 passenger instrument on SPOT-5 also provides continuity of environmental monitoring around the globe, like its predecessor on SPOT-4.

SPOT Image Corporation is composed of four subsidiaries, including an office in Germany and a dense global network of receiving stations, channel partners, and distributors. Satellite Imaging Corporation is an official distributor for SPOT Image Corporation.

Compared to its predecessors, SPOT-5 offers greatly enhanced capabilities, which provide additional cost-effective imaging solutions. Thanks to SPOT-5's improved 5-metre and 2.5-metre resolution and wide imaging swath, which covers 60 x 60 km or 60 km x 120 km in twin-instrument mode, the SPOT-5 satellite provides an ideal balance between high resolution and wide-area coverage. The coverage offered by SPOT-5 is a key asset for applications such as medium-scale mapping (at 1:25 000 and 1:10 000 locally), urban and rural planning, oil and gas exploration, and natural disaster management. SPOT-5's other key feature is the unprecedented acquisition capability of the on-board HRS stereo viewing instrument, which can cover vast areas in a single pass. Stereo pair imagery is vital for applications that call for 3D terrain modeling and computer environments, such as flight simulator databases, pipeline corridors, and mobile phone network planning.