For the purpose of pricing SPOT scenes, we define North America to be the union of Canada, the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska), all US insular territories, and all territorial waters claimed by the preceding. This set of regions is roughly outlined in red in the above map (if not visible, here's a screen capture). The actual, much more detailed region boundaries used in pricing computations are defined here (ZIP-compressed shapefile).
For comparison, Lethbridge's circle of visibility (radius 2,850km, centered at 49° 40' 52.317" N, 112° 52' 24.420" W) is shown in blue.
The nominal price of a scene is given by the formula:
if the scene is available from Lethbridge and overlaps North America:
for satellites 1-4:
$299
for satellite 5:
if the spectral mode is B (2.5m pan):
$699
if the spectral mode is A (5m pan) or J (10m XS):
$499
otherwise:
not for sale by UCSB
The discount price of a scene is $100.
The catalog price of a scene, i.e., the price listed in the catalog and charged to customers, is given by the formula:
if the scene has been sold previously:
discount price
otherwise:
nominal price
The tasking price of a scene, i.e., the price of each scene returned as part of a tasking order, is given by the formula:
for satellites 2 and 4:
$399
for satellite 5:
if the spectral mode is B (2.5m pan):
$999
if the spectral mode is A (5m pan) or J (10m XS):
$699
Despite appearances, there is actually no conflict between nominal and tasking prices. Tasking prices are associated with and charged by tasking orders; nominal and discount prices apply only to scenes ordered through the catalog. When tasked scenes are received, they are marked in the catalog as having been previously sold, and thus their nominal prices (irrelevant in this case) get masked by the discount price.
Per Wim Chalmet, a scene is available from Lethbridge if:
the archiving station is LM
or if:
the receiving station is PP or PQ
and
the scene acquisition date is 2002 or earlier, or May 8, 2004 or later.
In the above, using Python indexing conventions, the receiving station is substring [298:300] of the SCIE record (equivalently, substring [20:22] of the segment usual name) and the archiving station is substring [300:302] of the SCIE record (equivalently, substring [22:24] of the segment usual name).
last modified 2009-11-19 13:08
