SPOT-5 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 - 5
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
04 May 2002
Mission Links
EOL Date
30 Mar 2015
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 #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

DORIS-NG (SPOT) - Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG (on SPOT)
HRG - HRG
HRS - High Resolution Stereoscope
VEGETATION - VEGETATION

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
LandAlbedo and reflectance VEGETATION
Landscape topography HRS
Vegetation HRG, HRS, VEGETATION
Multi-purpose imagery (land) HRG, VEGETATION
OceanMulti-purpose imagery (ocean) HRG, VEGETATION
Snow & IceIce sheet topography HRS
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness HRG

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
SPOT 4-5 Take 5 ESA Archive
Jan-2013
At the end of their operational lives SPOT 4 and 5 were placed into orbits that resulted in 5-day revisit times – consistent with the operation of Sentinel-2. SPOT 4/5 Take 5 data collected over a selection of international sites allowed users to prepare for Sentinel-2 by testing their methods and applications, as well as to showcase the utility of the derived products. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more
SPOT-6/7 Full Archive & Tasking & SPOTMaps 2.5
Jan-2012
SPOT 6 and 7 form an EO constellation, together with Pleiades-1A/1B, improving on the imaging capacity of their predecessor SPOT 5, while ensuring SPOT data continuity with their 60 km swath. SPOT 6 and 7 offer 1.5 m resolution in natural colour, a daily revisit to any point of the globe and can be programmed for stereo and tri-stereo acquisitions for 3D terrain modelling. ESA offers access to worldwide SPOT6-7 data (both archived and new acquisitions) and to OneAtlas Living Library via the TPM scheme. - Read more
IMAGE2006 European Coverage
Jan-2006
Two cloud-free coverages of Europe are available, resampled to 20 m spatial resolution in national projection and 25 m in European projection for orthorectified data. Data have been sourced from SPOT-4 HRVIR (20 m original spatial resolution), SPOT-5 HRG (10 m original spatial resolution) and Resourcesat-1 (IRS-P6) LISS III (with 23 m original spatial resolution), each with four spectral bands. The swath width is about 60 km for the SPOT satellites and 140 km for the IRS-P6 satellite. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more