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Welcome to the first issue of SPOTLight the e-newsletter developed to keep you informed of all the exciting changes happening at SPOT Image Corp. These are indeed exciting times at SPOT. We have recently unveiled SPOT Online Access, our online imagery solution, and introduced the new SPOTMaps line of regional image mosaics. They are just a couple of the innovative imagery solutions we are creating from our unique constellation of Earth imaging satellites. So please read on to learn more about our unique data and unique solutions. And feel free to contact us at Sales@spot.com to send us your feedback and story ideas.
Bruce Ogden
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Spot Image Launches ‘One World, One Year’ Imagery Layer on Google Earth
Spot Image is bringing fresh content to Google Earth with a selection of the best SPOT satellite imagery from all around the world. One World, One Year offers a selection of 50,000 SPOT scenes with the lowest available cloud cover acquired within the last year covering some 180 million sq. km. The collection will be updated regularly as new images are acquired by the constellation of three SPOT satellites (SPOT 2, SPOT 4 and SPOT 5). Every day, an average 10,000 new images are listed in Spot Image’s Sirius online catalog, which today contains more than 12 million scenes. Learn more »
Visit SPOT at GEOINT
Stop by Booth 256 at the 2007 GEOINT Symposium to see the latest SPOT products and services. We’ll be conducting demos of our new online imagery solution, SPOT Online Access, and our premium datasets in Google Earth Enterprise. We’ll also be showing off the latest offerings from our new SPOTMaps product line This year’s GEOINT will be held Oct. 21-24 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. For conference details, go to www.geoint2007.com
See the New spot.com
Check out our new homepage at www.spot.com. In addition to the new look, we’ve made it more user friendly so you can quickly find all of the new online services SPOT has to offer. With just a single mouse click, you can access our three featured services: the Online Store where you can search and purchase satellite images, the Online Library where you can manage your imagery archives, and the Photo Gallery where you can buy cool image art. Check it out today.
SPOT Online Access Goes Live
Visit our new online imagery solution, SPOT Online Access, at http://access.spot.com where you can browse, purchase, and download satellite imagery online. Offering imagery from the SPOT and FORMOSAT-2 satellites, SPOT Online Access allows you to purchase imagery by the square kilometer. The easy-to-use map interface lets you preview the imagery and then “cookie cut” your area of interest in any shape or size, so you buy only the image data you need. All of the imagery currently offered online is from the new SPOTMaps product line.
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SPOT Welcomes Bruce Ogden,
New VP of Sales & Marketing
SPOT Image Corp. is pleased to welcome Bruce Ogden as our new Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Located in our Chantilly, Va. headquarters Bruce comes to SPOT with a distinguished career in both sales and marketing at several telecommunications and high-tech companies. In his new role at SPOT, Bruce is eager to work closely with existing and future clients to ensure that SPOT provides the right solutions to meet their geospatial information needs.
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Satellite Images Bridge Understanding Gap between Climate Change and Individuals
The geospatial community can play a vital role in global warming research by helping to make a connection between climate change and individual people. The best way to accomplish this is by making satellite imagery and derived information more easily accessible and understandable to the general public, so they can see the impact that climate change has at their local level.
That was the consensus of representatives from SPOT Image Corp., CNES (the French Space Agency), and Google Earth, who engaged in an impromptu discussion following the “Space and the Polar Regions” seminar held in Arlington, Va. Sponsored in April by the Embassy of France and George Mason University to kick off the International Polar Year, the event focused attention on the environmental monitoring data that Earth observation satellites have collected over the poles and their importance to research.
In their informal conversation, Spot Image, CNES and Google Earth picked up on the theme of the conference and examined ways the geospatial industry, specifically organizations providing imagery, can do a better job assisting with climate change research. The three entities elaborated on their own current and future activities to support environmental monitoring initiatives.
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| Satellite |
Resolution |
Revisit |
Spectral Cap |
Status |
| SPOT 5 |
2.5m/10m |
1-4 days* |
Pan/Multi |
Active |
| SPOT 4 |
10m/20m |
1-4 days* |
Pan/Multi |
Active |
| SPOT 2 |
10m/20m |
1-4 days* |
Pan/Multi |
Active |
| FORMOSAT-2 |
2m/8m |
1 day** |
Pan/Multi |
Active |
| Pleiades 1 |
50 cm |
TBD |
Pan/Multi |
2010 |
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* Exact revisit rates vary by latitude
** For locations accessible by FORMOSAT-2 |
Pleiades Update
In 2009, Spot Image will launch the first of its two very high resolution Pleiades satellites. Each Pleiades satellite will provide imagery at a 50 cm resolution. Pleiades 1 is currently under construction at EADS/Astrium in France.
Meet the Satellite: FORMOSAT-2 -- for daily imaging of your areas of interest
Earth observation systems offer more or less broad coverage and ever-finer detail, but their revisit frequency is still limited for surveillance purposes. FORMOSAT-2, the first and only high-resolution satellite with a daily revisit capability, overcomes this obstacle to provide a new response to your surveillance needs.
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| Introducing SPOTMaps |
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Forget about pixels and scenes; SPOTMaps brings you the world in seamless mosaics of entire regions, continents and countries. Available for immediate purchase at access.spot.com, the new SPOTMaps currently cover the entire Middle East, UAE, Tunisia, as well as five countries in Western Europe.
Every mosaic is orthorectified from natural-color, 2.5-meter SPOT 5 imagery collected in the past three years. SPOTMaps provides a combination of synoptic coverage and level of local detail like no other imagery product. Best of all, you can define your own area of interest and buy it by the square kilometer. More SPOTMaps will be coming soon |
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If you have questions or would like to receive more information about our products,
please call
1-800-ASK-SPOT
or email us at
sales@spot.com
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