Import SPOT-4 Take5 Products

This command allows to import SPOT-4 Take5 products. There are two levels of products that can be imported:

• Level 1C : Top of Atmosphere reflectance ortho-rectified product
• Level 2A : Surface reflectances and cloud mask

The products can be either compressed in a tar archive, or uncompressed in a specific folder structure.

Wheter the product is an archive or a folder, the list of files must have the same structure:

For Level 1C, the product must contain 2 files and a MASK directory containing a mask file:

• the xml file provides the image metadata
• the TIF file provides the bands (XS1, XS2, XS3, SWIR) coded as signed 16 bits integers
• the saturated pixel mask _SAT.TIF contains an 8 bit information:
  • Bit 0 is XS1 saturated pixel mask
  • Bit 1 is XS2 saturated pixel mask
  • Bit 2 is XS3 saturated pixel mask
  • Bit 3 is SWIR saturated pixel mask

For Level 2A, the product must contain 3 files and a MASK directory containing multiple mask files:

• the xml file provides the image metadata
• the two .TIF files in GeoTiff format that provide surface reflectances, corrected from atmospheric effects, including adjacency effects (ORTHO_SURF_CORR_ENV, not provided for LANDSAT) and even terrain effects (ORTHO_SURF_CORR_PENTE).
• A saturated pixels mask _SAT.TIF (as in Level 1C)
• A mask of clouds and cloud shadows _NUA.TIF
  • bit 0 (1) : all clouds (except thin ones) or shadows
  • bit 1 (2) : all clouds (except thin ones)
  • bit 2 (4) : cloud detected through absolute threshold
  • bit 3 (8) : cloud detected through multi-t threshold
  • bit 4 (16) : very thin clouds
  • bit 5 (32) : high clouds detected with 1.38 µm band (LANDSAT 8 only)
  • bit 6 (64) : cloud shadows matched with a cloud
  • bit 7 (128) : cloud shadows in the zone where clouds could be outside the image (less reliable)
• Diverse binary masks : water, snow and no_data mask, plus (V2.0) pixels lying in terrain shadows _DIV.TIF
  • bit 0 (1) : No data
  • bit 1 (2) : Water
  • bit 2 (4) : Snow
  • bit 3 (8): V2.0 only : Sun too low for terrain correction (limitation of correction factor that tends to the infinity, correction is false)
  • bit 4 (16): V2.0 only : Sun too low for terrain correction (correction might be inaccurate)

For detailed information about this format, please have a look at the following link:

• Cesbio - Take5 Product Format