Remote Sensing National Plan

The Remote Sensing National Plan (PNT) is the reference guide that has to be used for all remote sensing works carried-out by any Spanish administration department or company. PNT and PNOA (Aerial Orthophotography National Plan) and part of the PNOT (Territorial Observing National Plan).

PNOT emerges from the need of having accurate and constantly updated information about the territory. This information must be coherent and adapted to international standards on geographic data (ISO, OGC, …), that all Administrations share, as well as accessible by all social agents that demand it. It is integrated in Spatial Data Infrastructures (GSDI, INSPIRE, IDEE, …) as well as European Earth-monitoring system (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security – GMES) and global systems (Earth Observation Group – GEO), etc…

The objective of PNT is the coordination of obtaining and treatment of satellite coverage over our territory, so that they are acquired and processed only once and are able to be used by all organizations from the different Spanish administration departments. The responsible organization for obtaining these images is INTA (National Institute of Aerospatial Techniques). This is an independent organization linked with the Ministry of Defence, which signed a special agreement for this purpose in 2005 with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Ministry of the Environment.

Within PNT there is a high, medium and low resolution structure, depending on temporal and spatial resolution of the images.