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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- SPOT-5
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Full Name
Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre - 5
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
CNES
Launch Date
04 May 2002
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
30 Mar 2015
EO Portal Info
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.7 deg
Orbit Altitude
832 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
26 days
Objectives and Applications
Cartography, land surface, agriculture and forestry, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Land
Albedo and reflectance
VEGETATION
Landscape topography
HRS
Vegetation
HRG
,
HRS
,
VEGETATION
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
HRG
,
VEGETATION
Ocean
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
HRG
,
VEGETATION
Snow & Ice
Ice sheet topography
HRS
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness
HRG
Mission Instruments
DORIS-NG (SPOT) - Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG (on SPOT)
HRG - HRG
HRS - High Resolution Stereoscope
VEGETATION - VEGETATION
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