Philippe Delclaux is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Infoterra Global EADS/Astrium SAS, a leading provider of geo-information products and services. He coordinates the technical activity of the three Infoterra entities located in Germany, France and UK, leads Infoterra's expert network and supervises overall Infoterra R&D; as such, he is closely involved in Infoterra's OGC activities in connection with Spot Image, Astrium and EADS. Delclaux has long been involved in geospatial standards. Prior to 1986, at Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, he defined the SPOT product formats, in coordination with Landsat and then with CEOS. Then, at Spot Image, where he served as CTO, he established a standard for SPOT metadata interchange, participated in the GIS GeoSPOT definition which was set up in connection with the young OGC, and contributed to the DIMAP formats used now for the SPOT and Formosat-2 products.