VHR (very high resolution) Vision-1 data has a number of potential applications across (but not limited to) the following use cases:

• Precision agriculture – e.g. crop yield, disease tracking
• Land monitoring – e.g. urban sprawl, habitat monitoring, asset mapping
• Maritime surveillance – e.g. ship detection, monitoring ports
• Infrastructure monitoring and town planning
• Security and defense - Providing tactical intelligence
• Ice and snow monitoring
• Disaster monitoring – mitigation and assistance during/after crisis events

Vision-1 satellite imagery is acquired using the SSTL S1-4 satellite, which resides on the agile SSTL 300-S1 platform, allowing data to be acquired at angles of up to 45° if necessary. The sub-1m instrument resolution available in the panchromatic band puts Vision-1 imagery squarely into NIIRS class 5. This allows, for example, identification of transport vehicles by type.

Vision-1 data is acquired in variable length strips, with each strip divided into single scenes, each covering approximately 465km2. For manageable data handling, each Vision-1 product is supplied containing the data from a single scene.