SPOT-1 Mission

Objectives and Applications

Cartography, land surface, agriculture and forestry, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre - 1
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
CNES
Launch Date
22 Feb 1986
Mission Links
EOL Date
31 Dec 2001
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

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
NORAD Catalog #
16613 (TLE)
International Designator
1986-019A

Mission Instruments

HRV - High Resolution Visible

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
LandAlbedo and reflectance HRV
Landscape topography HRV
Vegetation HRV
Surface temperature (land) HRV
Multi-purpose imagery (land) HRV
Snow & IceSea ice cover, edge and thickness HRV

Featured Datasets

SPOT 1-5 ESA Archive
Jan-2015
SPOT 1-3 carried the High-Resolution Visible Imagers, while SPOT 4-5 carried an upgraded version, the High-Resolution Visible and Infrared Imager. To ensure continuity of service, HRVIR had the same geometric imaging characteristics (a swath of 60 km per instrument and oblique viewing capability of 27° on each side of the local vertical), but its performance had been increased by adding a new shortwave infrared spectral band (SWIR). The collection is composed by the copy of products requested by ESA supported projects over their areas of interest around the world (mainly Europe and Africa), and access is provided via the TPM scheme. - Read more
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