Pléiades mission countdown
Episode 6 :
Very-high-resolution satellite imagery at your fingertips
with the Pléiades portal
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Spot Image is developing a new Web portal to offer customers and partners full-service, 24/7 access to Pléiades satellite data. This unique e-business portal will let you manage all your online services.
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Geospatial data access technology
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For this portal, Spot Image has selected DataDoors. Developed by U.S. firm I-cubed, DataDoors is a leading e-business platform perfectly suited to browsing and ordering satellite imagery, offering a seamless solution from data querying through to product delivery.
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A tool designed for and by users
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DataDoors expert David Mitchell came especially from the USA to lead the first Web user interface workshops.
A battery of tests has been performed and recommendations have been canvassed from account managers.
This process will continue in the weeks ahead with Spot Image's subsidiaries and partners—the best way to guarantee users a tool that matches their needs.
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Pléiades at a glance
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Pléiades is a new generation of wide-swath (20 km) optical Earth-imaging satellites that will supply colour products at a resolution of 50 cm.
Initiated in 2001, the dual-use Pléiades programme comprises two 1,000-kg satellites phased 180° in the same orbit to provide daily revisits of any point on the globe.
Equipped with innovative, latest-generation space technologies like fibre-optic gyros and control moment gyros, Pléiades-1 (PHR1A) and Pléiades-2 (PHR2A) offer great roll and yaw agility.
They can acquire imagery anywhere within an 800-km ground strip in less than 25 seconds with a location accuracy better than 3 metres, without ground control points and using refined ephemeris data.
More about Pléiades |
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