In December of 2009 the total number of active civil remote
sensing satellites was 130. One of the largest group were
multitask land observation remote sensing satellites (49 missions),
providing data employed in majority of Earth Sciences
and applied in spatial databases. Currently many new remote
sensing missions are in preparation. The 103 of them will
start in 2010 – 2015 and 24 in 2016 – 2025 period. The aim
of this research was to analyse the possibilities of employment
of the new remote sensing data to produce spatial data, and
to investigate the suitability of usage of this data. To achieve
these goals, it was necessary to classify the types of remote
sensing data. The next step was the analysis of the possibility
of production thematic information for supplying spatial databases.
The investigations allowed to identify the new trends
concerning the design of new remote sensing missions and
enabled to estimate the possibilities of employment of remote
sensing data to produce spatial data, as well as to estimate
the opportunities to use them for supplying spatial databases