1. SPOT World Heritage Programme General Principles and Opportunities for GFOI
S. Hosford
Strategy and Programmes Directorate
CNES

2. Objectives … some figures
Allow access to SPOT imagery for non commercial use
Creation of a reference database of SPOT imagery
Provide an « intelligent filter » to guide long-term data preservation of SPOT imagery
… some figures
SPOT family 1-5 have been operated over 28 years …
… acquiring more than 30 million scenes since 1986

3. General principles What data? Where ?
Orthorectified images
Older than 5 years (rolling limit)
Decametric resolution (20 and 10m SPOT colour data)
Where ?
All data processed are made available free of charge via reference database – SPOT World Heritage Archive
Registration required for download
Specific SWH licence
Operated by CNES

4. General principles
How can they be used?
Non commercial use only
“Global change” applications
No redistribution
Users can obtain access to the images over their area of interest by covering processing costs … these will then be added to the common SWH Archive

5. Current Status
CNES has launched the programme by covering costs to process the first 100,000 images
Initial focus on France (~ images)
Other areas to be defined Priorities for GFOI?
Processing to ortho level in progress
First set of images will be available in the SWH Archive by end of 2014

6. Opportunities for GFOI
SPOT coverage of GFOI countries ?
covering reference years
according to the needs
provided possible necessary authorizations over some areas
Contribution to covering costs of this processing?

7. Country coverage examples
Kenya
~8000 images

8. Country coverage examples
Uganda
~5000 images

9. Country coverage examples
Tanzania
~5000 images