Capella Space
Very high resolution SAR imagery acquired globally on a sub-daily basis.
Introduction
Capella Space imagery is acquired by seven very high and high resolution radar satellites on an intraday basis anywhere on the globe. The datasets are available starting with 2020. The collection provides single-look products (SLC and SICD) and multi-look products (GEC and GEO).
This collection provides catalog and tasking data. See more on the marketplace.
This is a restricted collection:
- To use the catalog collection, request access.
- To use the tasking collection, request access.
Product information
Geographic coverage
The geographic coverage is global. There are regional restrictions that limit the coverage of the catalog collection.
Location of interest type
This collection accepts AOIs. You will get full scenes intersecting the defined AOI.
General specifications
Specification | Description |
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Azimuth resolution | Spotlight (Spot): Very high resolution (0.50 m) Sliding Spotlight (Site): High resolution (1 m) Stripmap (Strip): High resolution (1.20 m) |
Sensor type | Radar |
Acquisition mode | Spotlight (Spot) Sliding Spotlight (Site) Stripmap (Strip) |
Delivery format | Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) JSON |
Revisit frequency | Intraday revisit rate (average of 5 hours) |
Catalog data availability | From 2020 |
Viewing angle | From 25° to 40° |
Spectral bands | X-band (from 9.4 GHz to 9.9 GHz) |
Polarization | Single HH |
Bit depth per pixel | 16-bit: SLC and SICD 32-bit: GEC and GEO |
Coordinate reference system | SLC: EPSG:4326 GEC: UTM-WGS84 GEC: UTM-WGS84 SLC: EPSG:4326 |
Data product specifications
All three acquisiton modes can provide SLC, GEC, and GEO products.
SLC, GEC, and GEO products are delivered as a three-file bundle consisting of the following:
- Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
- STAC JSON metadata
- Extended JSON metadata
The Spotlight (Spot) and Stripmap (Strip) acqusition modes can also deliver single look complex data in a Sensor Independent Complex Data (SICD) format. This will be a NITF file which contains both the SAR imagery and its metadata.
Data product type | Description |
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Single Look Complex (SLC) |
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Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC) |
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Geocoded Terrain Corrected (GEO) |
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Sensor Independent Complex Data (SICD) |
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Limitations
Acquisition mode | Scene size |
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Spotlight (Spot) | 5 × 5 km |
Sliding SpotLight (Site) | From 5 × 10 km to 5 × 50 km |
Stripmap (Strip) | From 5 × 20 km to 5 × 200 km |
UP42 data products
Tasking data products
Product configuration title | Data product ID | Collection name |
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Custom | 83e21b35-e431-43a0-a1c4-22a6ad313911 | capella-tasking |
Catalog data products
Product configuration title | Data product ID | Collection name | Geometric processing level | Bit depth per pixel | Delivery format |
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SLC | 1f2b0d7f-d3e2-4b3d-96b7-e7c184df7952 | capella-slc | Primary | 16-bit | COG and JSON |
GEC | 96072809-d820-4cf9-86dd-d3bff3337c35 | capella-gec | Ortho | 32-bit | COG and JSON |
GEO | d66facaa-533f-49a2-849a-c2910ac9dd31 | capella-geo | Ortho | 32-bit | COG and JSON |
SICD | 8b0aed07-c565-4bf9-b719-401e692de4a6 | capella-sicd | Primary | 16-bit | NITF |