| Pleiades | Pleiades Neo | BlackSky Gen 3 | |
| Data products | |||
| Data product | Custom | Custom | Custom |
| Type | Tasking, Catalog | Tasking, Catalog | Tasking, Catalog |
| Spectral bands combination | 4-band: pansharpened (RGB and NIR) | 6-band: pansharpened (deep blue, RGB, red edge, and NIR) | 1 panchromatic and 3 multispectral bands (RGB) |
| Specifications | |||
| General | |||
| Provider | Airbus | Airbus | BlackSky |
| Collection type | Tasking, Catalog | Tasking, Catalog | Tasking, Catalog |
| Product type | Optical | Optical | Optical |
| System type | Satellite | Satellite | Satellite |
| Data | |||
| Resolution | Panchromatic: 50 cm | HD15: 15 cm | 0.35 cm–0.50 m |
| Pansharpened: 50 cm | Panchromatic: 30 cm | ||
| Multispectral: 2 m | Pansharpened: 30 cm | ||
| Multispectral: 1.20 m | |||
| Bit depth per pixel | GeoTIFF: 8 or 16‑bit | Tasking: | 16-bit |
| JPEG 2000: 8 or 12‑bit | GeoTIFF: 8 or 16‑bit | ||
| Catalog: | JPEG 2000: 8 or 12‑bit | ||
| Analytic: 12‑bit | Catalog: | ||
| Pansharpened Reflectance: 16‑bit | Analytic: 16‑bit | ||
| Display: 8‑bit | Pansharpened Reflectance: 16‑bit | ||
| Display: 8‑bit | |||
| Pléiades Neo HD15 Ortho: 8‑bit | |||
| Delivery format | A ZIP file containing the following files: | A ZIP file containing the following files: | A ZIP file containing the following files: |
| Data (catalog: GeoTIFF; tasking: GeoTIFF or JPEG 2000) | Data (catalog: GeoTIFF; tasking: GeoTIFF or JPEG 2000) | Data (GeoTIFF, NITF) | |
| Metadata (XML, PDF) | Metadata (XML) | Metadata (JSON, TXT) | |
| Masks (GML, KML) | Masks (GML, KML) | Masks (GeoTIFF) | |
| Thumbnails (JPEG) | Thumbnails (JPEG) | Thumbnails (PNG) | |
| Masks | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud |
| Environmental | Quality | Environmental | |
| Quality | ROI | Quality | |
| ROI | Transparency | Transparency | |
| Transparency | Water | Water | |
| NoData value | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Processing levels | |||
| Tasking | |||
| Basic | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | |
| TOA | |||
| Surface reflectance | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | |
| Display | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Georectified, Orthorectified |
| Processing levels | |||
| Catalog | |||
| Basic | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | |
| TOA | |||
| Surface reflectance | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | |
| Display | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified | Georectified, Orthorectified |
| System | |||
| Acquisition mode | Tasking: | Tasking: | Tasking: |
| Mono | Mono | Mono | |
| Stereo | Stereo | Stereo (2-frame) | |
| Tri-stereo | Tri-stereo | Stereo (burst) | |
| Catalog: | Catalog: | Stereo (area coverage) | |
| Mono | Mono | Catalog: | |
| Stereo*) | Stereo*) | Mono | |
| Tri-stereo*) | Tri-stereo*) | Stereo (2-frame) | |
| Incidence angle | From 5° to 50° |
From 5° to 50° |
Up to 30° |
| Off-nadir angle | 30° | 30° | |
| Tasking priority | Standard | Standard | Standard |
| High | High | High | |
| Orbit | Sun-synchronous, at 694 km | Sun-synchronous, at 620 km | Mid-inclination, from 42° to 53°, at 400–460 km |
| Sun-synchronous, at 449–701 km | |||
| Orbit direction | |||
| Number of satellites | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Polarization | |||
| Revisit rate | Daily | 2 times a day |
7 times a day |
| Catalog refresh rate | Daily |
2 times a day |
|
| Swath width | 20km |
14 km |
|
| Band data | |||
| Spectral bands | Panchromatic: 470–830 nm | Panchromatic: 450–800 nm | Panchromatic: 450–700 nm |
| Multispectral: | Multispectral: | Multispectral: | |
| 590–710 nm (red) | 620–690 nm (red) | 590–700 nm (red) | |
| 500–620 nm (green) | 530–590 nm (green) | 520–590 nm (green) | |
| 430–550 nm (blue) | 450–520 nm (blue) | 450–520 nm (blue) | |
| 740–940 nm (near-infrared) | 770–880 nm (near-infrared) | ||
| 700–750 nm (red edge) | |||
| 400–450 nm (deep blue) | |||
| Geographic reference | |||
| Coordinate reference system | Tasking: | Tasking: | Georectified: Geographic-WGS84 |
| Geographic-WGS84 | Geographic-WGS84 | Orthorectified: UTM-WGS84 | |
| UTM-WGS84 | UTM-WGS84 | ||
| Catalog: UTM-WGS84 | Catalog: UTM-WGS84 | ||
| Positional accuracy |
6.50 m CE90 absolute at nadir |
Tasking and catalog standard: 5 m CE90 absolute at nadir Catalog advanced: < 3.5 m CE90 absolute at nadir |
< 20 m CE90 absolute |
| Conditions | |||
| Tasking conditions | |||
| Limitations | Input: AOI from 5 km2 and at least 2 km wide | Input: AOI from 5 km2 and at least 5 km wide | Input: POI |
| Cloud coverage: 5–20% | Cloud coverage: 5–20% | Cloud coverage: 30–100% | |
| Output: AOI-clipped imagery | Output: AOI-clipped imagery | Output: scene sized from 26 km2 to 33 km2 | |
| Minimum charge | As per 100 km2 |
As per 100 km2 |
As per 1 scene |
| Catalog conditions | |||
| Limitations | Input: AOI, depending on the asset delivery time: | Input: AOI, depending on the asset delivery time: | Input: AOI with up to 300 vertices |
| 10 min: from 0.1 km2 | 10 min: from 0.1 km2 | Availability: | |
| 24 hours: from 1 km2 | 24 hours: from 5 km2 | Mono: from 2019 | |
| Non-integrated: from 25 km2 at least 500 m wide | Few days: from 25 km2 | Stereo (2-frame): from 2022 | |
| Availability: from 2012 | Non-integrated: from 25 km2 | Output: scenes sized from 26 km2 to 33 km2 | |
| Output: AOI-clipped imagery | Availability: from 2021 | ||
| Output: AOI-clipped imagery |
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