"Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite system operating from space. It is run by Spot Image, based in Toulouse, France.

SPOT sells affordable satellite safety devices, delivering reliable location-based tracking, messaging and lifesaving SOS technology. SPOT products monitor your location, connecting to emergency responders while out of cellular range.

All of the SPOT satellites provide imagery in panchromatic and multispectral bands with a swath of 60 km. The SPOT series is part of ESA's Third Party Missions Programme, in which ESA has an agreement with Airbus Defence and Space to distribute data products from the mission.

Initiated by the French space agency CNES in 1977 and run by Spot Image, based in Toulouse, France, SPOT was the first European Earth-observation satellite programme. The series was developed in association with Belgian and Swedish institutions.

The French Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT Satellite) holds the championship title. In English, SPOT satellite means “satellite to observe Earth”. And in 1986, SPOT single-handedly became one of the most sophisticated Earth observation satellites of its time.

SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 identical satellites, form a constellation designed to provide continuity of high-resolution, wide-swath SPOT data up to 2023. Both satellites have drawn on technological and operational innovations conceived for the Pléiades constellation.

2024年2月22日 · SPOT-6 & -7 are twin commercial Earth observation satellites operated by Airbus Defence and Space (previously as Astrium Services), launched in 2012 and in 2014, respectively. Each satellite has a life-expectancy of 10 years from launch and will continue to image land processes with improvements in end-user operation.

Conceived and designed by CNES, the SPOT programme orbited seven satellites from 1986 onwards, revealing Earth’s surface in increasing detail and supporting a plethora of applications including mapping, monitoring of vegetation, land use and land cover, and studying the impacts of natural disasters.

SPOT covers large areas in a single pass at resolutions up to 1.5m. It is ideal for applications at national and regional scales from 1:250,000 to 1:15,000 Defence and Space

2023年4月12日 · First launched by the French in 1986, SPOT explores the Earth by "supplying high resolution, wide-area imagery" (ESA n.d.). Functioning as a technological data collector for the observations of Earth, its purpose predominantly lies in recording imagery on land-use changes, agriculture, forestry, and natural resource variability (CRISP n.d.).