PLEIADES-HR IMAGE QUALITY COMMISSIONING

L. Lebègue; D. Greslou; F. de Lussy; S. Fourest; G. Blanchet; C. Latry; L. Lachérade; J. M. Delvit; P. Kubik; C. Déchoz; V. Amberg; F. Porez-Nadal

doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B1-561-2012

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Jul 2012)

PLEIADES-HR IMAGE QUALITY COMMISSIONING

L. Lebègue,
D. Greslou,
F. de Lussy,
S. Fourest,
G. Blanchet,
C. Latry,
L. Lachérade,
J. M. Delvit,
P. Kubik,
C. Déchoz,
V. Amberg,
F. Porez-Nadal

Affiliations

L. Lebègue: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
D. Greslou: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
F. de Lussy: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
S. Fourest: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
G. Blanchet: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
C. Latry: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
L. Lachérade: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
J. M. Delvit: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
P. Kubik: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
C. Déchoz: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
V. Amberg: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67
F. Porez-Nadal: CNES 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 France Phone: 33.(0)5.61.27.39.97 Fax: 33.(0)5.61.27.31.67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B1-561-2012
Journal volume & issue: Vol. XXXIX-B1
pp. 561 – 566

Abstract

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PLEIADES is the highest resolution civilian earth observing system ever developed in Europe. This imagery program is conducted by the French National Space Agency, CNES. It operates since 2012 a first satellite PLEIADES-HR launched on 2011 December 17th, a second one should be launched by the end of the year. Each satellite is designed to provide optical 70 cm resolution coloured images to civilian and defence users. The Image Quality requirements were defined from users studies from the different spatial imaging applications, taking into account the trade-off between on-board technological complexity and ground processing capacity. The assessment of the image quality and the calibration operation have been performed by CNES Image Quality team during the 6 month commissioning phase that followed the satellite launch. These activities cover many topics gathered in two families : radiometric and geometric image quality. The new capabilities offered by PLEIADES-HR agility allowed to imagine new methods of image calibration and performance assessment. Starting from an overview of the satellite characteristics, this paper presents all the calibration operations that were conducted during the commissioning phase and also gives the main results for every image quality performance.

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Publisher: Copernicus Publications
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics
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