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.

Submit a tasking request, browse the archive, configure an alert or sign up for a streaming data access subscription... 

The full Pléiades offering is at your fingertips thanks to a highly intuitive cartographic interface that forms the backbone of the Web portal.

You will be able to select products, keep track of your orders, purchase data on line, share projects with other users and configure your personal settings.

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.

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.