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Satellite image data & map production costs

NPA acquire and distribute data from all available optical and radar satellite systems and are a leading member of SARCOM, set up to distribute data from the European Space Agency (ESA) satellites.

This note describes the main sources of satellite imagery and outlines their characteristics and applications. A guide is given to the costs for both data acquisition and subsequent processing and map production. NPA provide a free service to evaluate and recommend the optimum data for your project and application as well as supplying fixed price quotations. NPA have a large data archive covering most parts of the world and distribution agreements with all the main data suppliers and ground stations.

Summary of the most common operational sensors and their characteristics

Sensor Name
Pixel Size
Scene Size - km
Spectral Bands
Optimum Use
SPOT b&w/colour
2.5/5/10/20m
60x60
3/4
Infrastructure & land use mapping
Landsat ETM b&w/colour
15/30m
185x170
8
Infrastructure mapping
Landsat TM
30m
185x170
7
Land use and mineral mapping
Landsat MSS
80m
185x170
4
Vegetation, land use
IRS 1A
72m
148x174
4
Similair to Landsat MSS
IRS 1B
36/72m
148x174
4
Similair to Landsat TM/MSS
IRS 1C/1D LISS III
23.5m
145x145
3
Similair to SPOT XS
IRS 1C/1D Pan
5.8m
70x70
1
Across track stereo, infrastructure
ERS - 1&2
12.5m
100x100
1
All weather land and water mapping, Interferometric ground displacement mapping
Envisat
30-1000m

100x100 -

400x400

1
All weather land, water and atmosphere monitoring
RADARSAT
10-100m
50x50(min) - 500x500(max)
1
All weather land / water and DEM's
NOAA-AVHRR
1.1km
1000x3000
5
Regional cover, low spatial resolution
KVR-1000
2m
40x40
1
Very high spatial resolution
TK-350
10m
200x300
1
Along track stereo
IKONOS b&w/colour
1/4m
4
Very high spatial resolution
Quickbird
0.6/2.8m
4
Very high spatial resolution
OrbView-3
1/4m
8 x 8 km
4
Very high spatial resolution

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