applications

The social, economic and environmental impacts of farming are of strategic importance for the vast majority of the world's nations today. As a result, crop mapping and monitoring are finding applications in such areas as inventorying annual broadacre crops and perennial fruit crops, forecasting crop yields for more effective stock management and food security, managing cultural practices within individual field parcels using precision agriculture techniques, and checking and monitoring farming subsidies within a regulatory framework.

The impacts of floods, forest fires, earthquakes and other natural disasters around the globe in recent years are forcing us to seek new prevention and mitigation methods. This task involves developing predictive models and monitoring tools, drawing up regulatory requirements and planning emergency response. For this purpose, we need to acquire regularly updated, reliable and objective spatially, referenced information in a timely fashion.

Spot satellites give you access to worldwide coverage of terrestrial information to support gas, oil and mineral exploration as well as pipeline routing. From early evaluation of a project to planning survey logistics, to environmental management, to interpretation of data, our imagery supports your efforts throughout the life of a project.

Forestry management decisions can be enhanced using SPOT satellites to acquire information regarding forest fires, logging and land occupancy. The imagery can show the path of a forest fire and allow the calculation of total impacted area.

Whether sizing new networks or densifying existing ones, telecommunications network planners need up-to-date coverages to build radio propagation models. These digital maps provide geographic information about terrain, building heights, land use and linear features. The recent growth of wireless telephone networks is driving demand in the telecoms market, which today is one of the biggest consumers of this kind of geographic information. Customers are looking to obtain more regularly updated information at increasingly precise scales.

Urban development is one of the key issues facing land-use planning departments today. Monitoring the spread of urbanization concerns regions, groups of urban communities or even entire countries, and may sometimes span international borders. Regional and local development programs need geographic information to give decision-makers a broad picture that reaches across all sectors. Such programs have to ensure that land-use provisions are spatially coherent and take environmental issues fully into account.

SPOT Imagery provides realistic visual content to the defense and civilian simulation/visualization programs that comprise a $12 Billion annual modeling and simulation industry. By combining satellite imagery and terrain elevation databases, SPOT creates stunning true-color 3D terrain visualizations for any location on Earth for flight training, battlefield management, mission rehearsal, research, gaming and other activities.