Project Proposal (Restrained)

1. Go to the ESA User Services Portal
   • Submit a proposal for the standard SPOT provision
   • Submit a proposal for the One Atlas Living Library subscription
2. Register or log in to EO Sign In
3. After logging in, complete and submit the form with your proposed use of the data
4. The proposal will be evaluated by ESA, which normally takes between 4 and 6 weeks
5. Upon successful evaluation, you will receive a confirmation email, which describes the amount of data to be provided, and details of how to order the data.

The collection is open for research and application development, prototype and test projects to users located in the territory of ESA Member States and ESA Cooperating/Associate States.

Data are available to order on demand or by subscription upon submission of a Project Proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be allowed to each project.

All details about data provision and availability, data access conditions, usage restrictions and the quota assignment procedure are described in the Terms of Applicability document available in the Resources section.

If you need help with the proposal form, consult this guide on how to access data requiring a project proposal.

For further information about the EO Sign In Service you can visit TellUs.

Should you need support to prepare your proposal or access the data, please contact EOHelp.

The SPOT 6 and 7 satellites ensure data continuity with the no longer operational SPOT 5 satellite and provide an archive of very high resolution optical acquisition as well as the possibility to task the satellites for new acquisitions.

Following the completion of the SPOT 7 mission in March 2023, new acquisition tasking is only available for the SPOT 6 satellite.

The ortho-products are automatically generated by the SPOT 6 and 7 ground segment, based on SRTM database or Reference3D when available. The applied geographical projection is WGS84 UTM.

Spectral band combination options:

• Panchromatic: black and white image at 1.5 m resolution
• Pansharpened: 3-bands or 4 bands colour image at 1.5 m resolution
• Multispectral: 4 bands image at 6m resolution 
• Bundle: 1.5 m panchromatic image and 6 m multispectral image, co-registered.

There are two different geometric processing levels:

• Primary: The Primary product is the processing level closest to the natural image acquired by the sensor. This product restores perfect collection conditions: the sensor is placed in rectilinear geometry, and the image is clear of all radiometric distortion.
• Ortho: The Ortho product is a georeferenced image in Earth geometry, corrected from acquisition and terrain off-nadir effects. Available in Mono acquisition mode only.

 Acquisition modes:

• Mono
• Stereo
• Tristereo

To complement the traditional and fully customised ordering and download of selected SPOT, Pléiades or Pléiades Neo images in a variety of data formats, you can also subscribe to the OneAtlas Living Library package where the entire OneAtlas optical archive of ortho images is updated on a daily basis and made available for streaming or download.

The Living Library consists of

• less-than-18-months-old imagery
• a curation of SPOT images with no cloud cover and less than 30° incidence angle
• Pléiades images acquired worldwide with maximum 15% cloud cover and 30° Incidence Angle
• Pléiades Neo premium imagery selection with 2% cloud cover and 30° incidence angle

Each package provides access to both download and streaming options. Depending on their preferences and needs, users can choose streaming only, download only, or a combination of both. The amounts presented in the table reflect consumption based solely on one type—either streaming or download—from a single mission

As per ESA policy, very high-resolution imagery of conflict areas cannot be provided.