products and services provider founded 1982 headquarters toulouse france key people herv buchwalter ceo net income 94 800 k 2007 number of employees 244 parent eads website www.astrium geo.com spot image a public limited company created in 1982 by the french space agency centre national d etudes spatiales cnes the ign and space manufacturers matra alcatel ssc etc. is a subsidiary of eads astrium 99 % . the company is the commercial operator for the spot earth observation satellites . contents 1 network and partners 2 satellites 3 products 4 planet action an initiative launched by spot image 5 important dates 6 see also 7 external links network and partners edit spot image is a worldwide distributor of products and services using imagery from earth observation satellites and works through a network of subsidiaries local offices australia brazil china united states japan peru singapore and partners . the goal is to provide on the spot service with worldwide availability . spot image works with a network of more than 30 direct receiving stations handling images acquired by the spot satellites . spot image collaborates with esa s gmes programme shares geographic information with the ogc and contributes to the interoperability of web services ; with infoterra global it continues to offer services for precision agriculture . satellites edit spot 5 satellite the 3 spot satellites in orbit spot 5 6 and 7 provide images with a large choice of resolutions from 2.5 m to 10 m. spot image also distributes multiresolution data from other optical satellites in particular from formosat 2 taiwan and kompsat 2 south korea for which it has exclusive distribution rights and from radar satellites terrasar x ers envisat radarsat . spot image is also the exclusive distributor of data from the very high resolution pleiades satellites . the launch of pl iades 1 via a soyuz rocket was confirmed on december 16 2011 . the second pl iades 2 was launched mid 2012 . spot image also offers infrastructures for receiving and processing as well as added value options . products edit in addition to images spot image proposes innovative added value products to meet new user needs ortho images spotview ortho whose location accuracy is less than 10 m rms homogeneous territorial coverage orthorectified spotmaps which come in natural colours with 2.5 m resolution 3d products spot dem built from automatic correlation of stereoscopic pairs acquired by spot 5 s hrs haute r solution st r oscopique high resolution stereoscopic instrument among the services offered by spot file programming of spot satellites direct access satellite programming and regular revisit capability over the same point on the globe enable the acquisition of images over a selected area of interest . the spot archives more than 18 million images of the whole world collected by spot satellites since 1986 are archived and accessible on line offering recent or historical geographic information . on line services spotgallery giving the general public access to images chosen for aesthetic cultural or thematic reasons in partnership with google earth one world one year offers the best images from the spot satellites whose acquisition data is not more than one year old for almost the entire planet . planet action an initiative launched by spot image edit its goal is to encourage the earth observation industry and geographic information professionals to support local projects searching for adaptive solutions to climate change problems . the products and materials available to these professionals satellite images geographic information systems image processing and display software are indispensable for studying the impact of global warming on our planet on local and global scales . planet action supports projects that study the impact on populations and habitat droughts desertification and water resources vegetation biodiversity and ecosystems the oceans ice glaciers and snow cover planet action web site important dates edit headquarters of spot image in toulouse 1982 creation of spot image in toulouse france 1983 creation of spot image corporation in the united states 1986 launch of the spot 1 satellite 1990 creation of spot imaging services in australia 1990 launch of the spot 2 satellite 1991 creation of spot asia in singapore 1998 creation of beijing spot image in china 1998 launch of spot 4 2002 creation of tokyo spot image 2002 launch of spot 5 2004 opening of offices in brazil and mexico 2004 signing of a contract with the nspo for the distribution of data from the formosat 2 satellite 2005 signing of a contract with kari for the distribution of data from the kompsat 2 satellite 2006 opening of an office in peru 2008 spot image is 81 % owned by astrium services an eads company 2008 spot image brasil replaces the office opened in this country 2012 launch of spot 6 2014 launch of spot 7 see also edit wikimedia commons has media related to spot satellite images . spot satellites cnes eads external links edit spot image web site cnes official web site eads official web site astrium official web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spot image & oldid 732430335 categories geographic data and information companiescompanies of franceaerospace companies of francehidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages espa ol fran ais italiano edit links this page was last modified on 31 july 2016 at 22 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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