High Location Accuracy for SPOTMAPS Australia

SPOTMAPS Australia is now available in its second version, made with fresh data. An independent study confirmed the high location accuracy of SPOTMAPS - Australia equals 5m CE90. More than 5 million square km² are already available in its second version, made with data majority acquired within the last two years. The updated Australian SPOTMAPS now include coverage of Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

An independent study conducted by McMullen, Nolan and Partners Surveyors Pty Ltd, Australia, presented at the 15th ARSPC conference in Alice Springs, concluded the absolute positional accuracy of SPOTMAPS Australia is CE90 equaks 5m.

New mosaics are available regularly, either updates of existing SPOTMAPS or new countries. At the moment more than 100 countries are covered, for delivery a few hours after ordering.

SPOTMAPS are mosaics made from SPOT 5 satellite images acquired at 2.5 metres. Coverage is seamless and uniform over the territory of a country or even several countries. SPOTMAPS is a georeferenced basemap used for mapping, defence, agriculture and forestry markets, providing both national vision and local detail, with high location accuracy. In the past 3 years, Spot Image, part of the GEO-Information division of Astrium Services, has produced more than 84 million km² of SPOTMAPS, seamless, natural colour and orthorectified 2.5 m mosaics. Off-the-shelf SPOTMAPS covering more than 100 countries can be purchased by the square kilometre. Updates and fresh data are made available regularly.