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SSTL has pioneered the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) optics for space imaging, producing stunning results at exceptionally low cost. SSTL is able to offer state-of-the art digital imagers for a range of remote sensing applications.

Rapid monitoring: Precision farming, regional yield forecasting, forest inventory, disaster monitoring, environmental management

Multi-angle measurement: Vegetation classification, air quality assessments

Littoral applications: Water quality, seabed classification

Military applications: Surveillance, target detection, target identification

CHRIS
A highly versatile hyperspectral system with more than 7-years inflight heritage, offering in-orbit programmable selection of spectral bands location, bandwidth and ground sampling distance. In orbit since 2001 and provides the highest spatial resolution of any hyperspectral system flying in the world, attracting a substantial international user community.

VHRI 250
Compact, very high resolution, low power pushbroom imager. Provides high resolution imagery in 5 wavebands, using five linear detector arrays separated in the along-track direction in the common focal plane of a telescope.

Wide Swath DMC MSI
Multispectral pushbroom imager with effective sensor length of 27,500 pixels for each of its three separate waveband channels. At an orbital height of 686km this gives a 600km swath width for each image.