Airbus Defence and Space

About Airbus Defence and Space

Trusted provider of premium satellite imagery, geospatial analytics, and secure connectivity. 

Airbus specializes in geospatial products and secure connectivity, aiming to deliver trusted space-related information superiority to enhance national security and support business-critical operations. Our core mission is to safeguard people, promote sustainability on Earth and enable customers to address challenges with increased speed and certainty. We offer a range of services, including actionable intelligence derived from satellite imagery, access to premium geospatial data from the Airbus commercial satellite constellation. We provide over 40 years of experience and expertise to meet customer needs through advanced GIS information technology.

Imagery & Data

Airbus provides world-class geospatial solutions powered by its advanced optical and radar satellite constellation. Our key capabilities include:

• Satellite Imagery: Access to optical (Pléiades Neo (30cm), Pléiades (50cm), SPOT (1.5m) and our Radar satellites (TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X and PAZ) imagery at high resolution with global coverage. 

• Satellite Tasking: On-demand, priority-based satellite tasking with rapid acquisition and flexible scheduling, enabling users to capture fresh imagery of specific locations worldwide. Satellite tasking is ideal for time-sensitive missions in defense, disaster response, and environmental monitoring to name a few. 

• Advanced Products: Ultra-high-resolution imagery products including HD15 (15cm-like imagery) and Elevation 0.5, a highly detailed digital surface model with 0.5 m resolution, enabling precise mapping, modeling, and analytics for demanding applications in urban planning, infrastructure, and defense.
• Elevation Models: Digital Surface Models (DSM), Digital Terrain Models (DTM) including 0.5m as well as the global WorldDEM™ Neo dataset.
• OneAtlas Platform: Cloud-based platform for seamless access to imagery, tasking, basemaps, global reference layers and more.
• Custom Solutions: Tailored services for defense, agriculture, energy, finance, disaster response, and more.

A Pléiades Neo image of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and a HD15 image showing the detail of the building.

Interoperability:

Airbus satellite imagery is designed for seamless integration into a wide range of geospatial workflows and platforms. Delivered in standardized formats and accompanied by detailed metadata, the imagery is fully compatible with leading GIS and remote sensing software, including ArcGIS, QGIS, ENVI, and custom enterprise systems. Through platforms like OneAtlas and APIs, users can access, stream, and analyze imagery directly within their existing environments which enable efficient data fusion, faster decision-making, and scalable analytics across multiple industries. Learn more about interoperability on our Developer Portal here

Ways to Try our Imagery:

Airbus offers multiple ways to access our imagery. Whether it’s a nice image for a publication, access to raw imagery to view the resolution and quality, or to choose a location anywhere in the world to evaluate our data for your project needs, we have options for you to try:

• Image Gallery: Airbus publishes news-worthy imagery on our site to view and use via our Image Gallery.
• Sample Data: Easily access and download high-resolution sample imagery from Airbus satellite constellations to evaluate product quality, test integration, and support project planning across various applications.

•  Living Library Free Trial: Request a free trial of the Living Library, Airbus’ imagery archive service that allows streaming and download of 30cm, 50cm and 1.5m resolution data.. Upon approval, the user will get access to our platform, OneAtlas, to stream and download full resolution data anywhere in the world. This account is used only for evaluation of our platform and data.