Go France!

So, apparently the French government will make older SPOT satellite images available (for free) for scientific use (per All Points Blog). That's about time that happened...the French had been charging top $$$ for their SPOT data, but that approach has become unrealistic with Landsat and ASTER available for free and much higher-resolution images available commercially. Still, the 1986 and onward data should be quite interesting as it offers better spatial resolution than Landsat.