Measurements and Applications
2 HRV instruments provide 60 x 60 km images for a range of land and coastal applications.
Full Name
High Resolution Visible
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
High resolution optical imagers 
Geometry
Cross-track scanning
Instrument Technology
High resolution optical imager
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
10 m (panchromatic) or 20 m
[Best Resolution: 10m]
Swath
117 km (i.e. 60 km + 60 km with 3 km overlap) - steerable up to ±27 deg off-track
[Max Swath: 117 km]
Waveband
VIS: B1:0.5 - 0.59 µm, B2:0.61 - 0.68 µm, NIR: B3:0.79 - 0.89 µm, Panchromatic: VIS 0.51 - 0.73 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
SPOT-1 - Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre - 1 (1986 - 2001) |
| SPOT-2 - Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre - 2 (1990 - 2009) |
| SPOT-3 - Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre - 3 (1993 - 1996) |