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How much data may I request in a Project Proposal?
Access to some restrained data collections distributed by ESA require submission of a Project Proposal. These collections are typically for Third Party Missions when the data provider can only offer a limited amount of data.
Browse the list of data collections requiring a Project Proposal
The details of how much data may be requested for each data collection requiring a Project Proposal is described in the following tables.
The tables for each collection provide the maximum number of scenes or coverage you may request for that collection and for each product type contained within it. Where relevant, the distinction is provided between the number of archive scenes (those already acquired by the satellite) and tasking scenes (requests to task the satellite to acquire a new scene).
If you wish to submit a Project Proposal that contains more than one product type or more than one mission, an overall quota limit is applied. For example, the maximum number of scenes cannot be requested for multiple missions in a single proposal; if you request 30% of the maximum number of scenes available for one collection, you may then request up to 70% of the maximum number of scenes for a second collection.
All Project Proposals are evaluated by ESA and it may not be possible to provide access to all of the requested scenes depending on the subject of the proposal. This page serves as a guide to assist submission of proposals.
COSMO-SkyMed
COSMO-SkyMed First and Second Generation data collection
| Product Type | Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| StripMap-quadPol | 21 | 11 |
| SCANSAR | 25 | 13 |
WorldView, QuickBird, and GeoEye-1
- WorldView-1 data collection
- WorldView-2 data collection
- WorldView-3 data collection
- WorldView-4 data collection
- QuickBird data collection
- GeoEye-1 data collection
| Archive scene | Tasking scene | |||
| Band Combination | Standard (*) | Ortho | Standard (*) | Ortho |
| Panchromatic | 400-660 km2 | 350-550 km2 | 290-390 km2 | 260-350 km2 |
| 4 Band | 350-530 km2 | 320-450 km2 | 260-330 km2 | 240-300 km2 |
| 8 Band | 380-480 km2 | 350-420 km2 | 270-320 km2 | 250-300 km2 |
| SWIR | 385 km2 | 345 km2 | 270 km2 | 250 km2 |
* Maximum coverage is halved when requesting Stereo products
The amount of coverage is dependent on resolution.
GEOSAT
| Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| 200,000 | 100000 |
| Product Type | Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| Level-1* | 2000 | 1000 |
| Super-Resolution | 1700 | 850 |
* Maximum coverage is halved when requesting Stereo products
ICEYE
| Product Type | Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| Strip / Scan | 17 | 9 |
| Spot | 10 | 5 |
| SLEA (Spotlight Extended Area) | 10 | 3 |
| Dwell mode | 15 | 2 |
IRS missions
ResourceSat-1 (IRS-P6) data collection
| System or radiometrically corrected | Ortho corrected |
| 29 | 15 |
| System or radiometrically corrected | Ortho corrected |
| 28 | 14 |
| System or radiometrically corrected | Ortho corrected |
| 29 | 15 |
Cartosat-1 (IRS-P5) data collection
| Product Type | System or radiometrically corrected | Ortho corrected |
| PAN-Aft or PAN-Fore | 32 | 16 |
| Stereo | 25 | 14 |
| DSM | DSM and ortho image |
| 1430 | 1330 |
PAZ
| Product Type | Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| High Resolution SpotLight (HS) | 6 | 4 |
| Staring Spotlight (ST) | 8 | 4 |
| Spotlight (SL) | 12 | 6 |
| StripMap (SM) | 18 | 9 |
| ScanSAR (SC) | 29 | 15 |
| Wide ScanSAR (WS) | 33 | 15 |
RapidEye, SkySat and PlanetScope
The maximum number of square kilometres that may be requested for RapidEye is 28,572.
The maximum number of square kilometres that may be requested for SkySat is 1667.
| Voucher Coverage | Percentage |
| Up to 6,000 km2 | 25% |
| Up to 12,500 km2 | 50% |
| Up to 30,000 km2 | 100% |
RADARSAT
| Mission | Product type | Number of scenes |
| RADARSAT-1 | ScanSAR Wide, ScanSAR Narrow, Wide | 16 |
| Standard, Extended Low, Extended High, Fine | 12 | |
| RADARSAT-2 | Spotlight | 2 |
| Wide Ultra Fine, Wide Multi Look Fine, Wide Fine,Wide Standard Quad Pol | 3 | |
| Extra Fine | 4 | |
| Ultra Fine | 6 | |
| Fine Quad Pol, Standard Quad Pol | 7 | |
| Multi Look Fine | 8 | |
| Fine (dual pol), Standard (dual pol) | 10 | |
| Fine (single pol), Standard (single pol), ExtendedLow, Extended High | 12 | |
| Wide, ScanSAR Narrow, ScanSAR Wide | 16 |
SPOT, Pléiades, and Pléiades Neo
| Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| 5850 | 4850 |
| OneAtlas subscription | Percentage |
| Streaming up to 80,000 tiles | 15% |
| Streaming up to 160,000 tiles | 25% |
| Unlimited streaming | 35% |
| Download package A | 50% |
| Download package B | 100% |
| Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| 1850 | 1450 |
| OneAtlas subscription | Percentage |
| Streaming up to 80,000 tiles | 15% |
| Streaming up to 160,000 tiles | 25% |
| Unlimited streaming | 35% |
| Download package A | 50% |
| Download package B | 100% |
| Number of acquisitions | Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| 1 | 800 | 480 |
| 2 to 5 acquisitions over the same AOI | 510 | |
| 6 or more acquisitions over the same AOI | 550 |
| OneAtlas subscription | Percentage |
| Streaming up to 80,000 tiles | 15% |
| Streaming up to 160,000 tiles | 25% |
| Unlimited streaming | 35% |
| Download package A | 50% |
| Download package B | 100% |
TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X
TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X data collection
| Product Type | Archive scene | Recent or Tasking scene |
| Staring Spotlight (ST), High Resolution SpotLight (HS) | 8 | 4 |
| Spotlight (SL) | 12 | 6 |
| StripMap (SM) | 14 | 7 |
| ScanSAR (SC), Wide ScanSAR (WS) | 23 | 12 |
| Product Type | Number of packages |
| Staring Spotlight (ST), High Resolution SpotLight (HS), Spotlight (SL) | 5 |
| StripMap, ScanSAR, or Wide ScanSAR | 10 |
| Product Type | DEM | DEM and quality layer |
| WorldDEM core | 3330 | N/A |
| WorldDEM | 2000 | 1670 |
| WorldDEM DTM | 910 | 830 |
| WorldDEM Bundle | 715 | N/A |
Vision-1
| Archive scene | Tasking scene |
| 4000 | 2700 |
NovaSAR-1
The maximum number of new scenes that may be requested for NovaSAR-1 is 14.