Applications

The user case studies presented in this section showcase how others have leveraged the power of satellite data acquisitions provided by Airbus and Planet to create novel insights and carry out reliable asset monitoring. The commercial datasets available are suitable for the purposes of both general users and EO specialists, where basic users can utilise imagery for mapping and GIS analysis, image classification, change detection and AI computer vision applications, while advanced users can carry out empirical and physical modelling, data calibration, atmospheric correction and 3D modelling or photogrammetry applications.

Planet

Explore how Planet imagery insights drive sustainable agriculture practises, flood management, conservation efforts, and urban planning.

SkySat

SkySat can support many application areas including:

Monitoring Threats to Wildlife and Ecosystems

PlanetScope

PlanetScope can support many application areas including:

Synthesising PlanetScope and SkySat

PlanetScope and SkySat imagery can be sythesised to provide insights for application areas in:

Airbus

See how high-resolution Airbus data can be utilised for potential applications across maritime surveillance, agriculture and vegetation monitoring.

Pléiades Neo

Pléiades Neo can support many application areas including:

Defence. Discover a new dimension for achieving geospatial intelligence analysis or critical mission planning.
Urban, Land Administration and Mapping. Optimum reactivity and accuracy to address today's land administration and city management challenges
Civil Engineering and Infrastucture. Reliable and precise data supply to support project planning and monitoring of assets
Oil, Gas, Mining and Energy. Precise and fresh data to optimise project planning and asset exploration, production, and monitoring
Maritime. Providing reliable data for enhanced maritime surveillance, ensuring safer operations and facilitating swift decision-making
Agriculture. Offering accurate and precise data to address growing agricultural challenges and meet sustainability demands

Pléiades Neo, Land Administration and Mapping

Mapping very dense urban areas in Mayotte with Pléiades Neo HD15 imagery

As a result of incorporating recent HD15 imagery into their mapping updates, the local authority has been able to rehabilitate substandard housing and relocate households from high-risk areas.

Pléiades Neo, Agriculture

Detection of Vine Rows using Pléiades Neo Imagery

Understanding the inter and intra-plot heterogeneity of vineyards is a crucial issue in ensuring the stability of wine production and income.

Pléiades Neo, Land Administration and Mapping

Precision Mapping of Urban Vegetation using Pléiades Neo Imagery

In 2022, Airbus launched the Pléiades Neo Challenge, a call for projects offering free access to Pléiades Neo imagery.

Pléiades

Pléiades can support many application areas including:

Defence. Available satellite resource with a true daily revisit capability, enabling routine or intensive monitoring of regional conflicts, border areas, and early detection and prevention of armed conflicts and humanitarian crises. The satellite’s advanced agility is particularly well-suited for updating military maps in strategic areas.
Land administration. Particularly adapted to urban planning, housing and transportation management, land use mapping (at scales of up to 1:10,000 and 1:5,000), assessing urban sprawl, and monitoring new infrastructure.
Agriculture. Especially well-suited for monitoring fragmented landscapes, small parcels, experimental micro-plots, and groves/permanent crops, but also for crop yields estimation, irrigation recommendations, agricultural inputs optimization.
Forest and environment. Valuable tool for running forest inventories and monitoring changes, forest operations (Wood planting, harvesting…).

Pléiades, Defence, Maritime, Mobility and Transportation

Hijacked Tanker Aris 13 Located with the Help of Pléiades

By combining the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and the Pléiades satellites, Airbus helped locating the ARIS 13 oil tanker attacked by Somali pirates in only 2 days.

Pléiades, Land Administration and Mapping

Supporting Polio Eradication with help of Airbus Pléiades satellite data

Within the record timeframe of 30 days, an immense area of 50,000km² was acquired with Pléiades in Nigeria.

Pléiades, Agriculture

Simplot develops a scalable system for valuable agronomy

Simplot and Airbus jointly developed a scalable, automated system to collect, process, analyse and digitally display satellite imagery from Pléiades and SPOT 6/7.

SPOT

SPOT can support many application areas including:

Forestry and environment. Detect anomalies in forest texture, identify degradation from unauthorised logging, or measure green corridors and hedges with higher precision
Maritime surveillance. Conduct ship reconnaissance, covering 100,000 km2 in a single pass, with the flexibility for reactive tasking up to 2 hours before acquisition as well as ultra-fast deliveries
Agriculture. Access to information inside small parcels <0.05ha, from panchromatic channels to extract textural information and derive biophysical parameters, get an accurate characterisation of crop conditions
National mapping. Rapid and broad coverage capability minimising seasonal effects on vegetation, and reducing operational costs by requiring less processing work over large areas; feature extraction with up to 1.2m CE90 geometric accuracy, as well as contour lines extraction and stereo plotting

SPOT, Agriculture

Simplot develops a scalable system for valuable agronomy

Simplot and Airbus jointly developed a scalable, automated system to collect, process, analyse and digitally display satellite imagery from Pléiades and SPOT 6/7.

SPOT, Security

2018 Hokkaido Earthquake and Post-disaster Monitoring

Japan is constantly under threats from natural disasters. To protect people’s lives and minimise economic losses, the authorities need immediate information from the affected areas.

SPOT, Maritime, Forestry and Environment, Mobility and Transportation

SPOT enables the detection and monitoring of toxic Gulfweed

The gorgeous island of Martinique in the Eastern Caribbean Sea has been hit by a plague, called sargasse.

Radar Constellation

Radar Constellation can support many application areas including:

Geospatial/image Intelligence (GEOINT/IMINT) and analytics, e.g. for Defence and Security
Emergency response and Mapping as well as change detection, e.g. for crisis management
Interferometric (InSAR) analysis of ground surface motion in support of OGME and Civil Engineering companies
Maritime surveillance with large area coverage at unique resolution and near-real-time delivery

Radar Constellation, Civil Engineering and Infrastructure

Interferometric (InSAR) Analysis with TerraSAR-X.