Industry Applications
Oil & Gas, Mining & Energy
For efficient planning and monitoring, from assessment to remediation, the oil, gas, mining and energy industries need to:
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Thoroughly explore geological and hydrological resources
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Optimize site planning and installation
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Evaluate the impact on the environment to ensure a responsible development
With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, they can easily and efficiently
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Identify and select potential new exploration sites
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Lower operating costs
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Map the possible impact of exploration
Defence & Security
Accurate and fresh information, when and where they need it, is key for
Defence & Security organisations – hence they are eager to
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Increase the number of information sources to reinforce surveillance of territories
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Detect and inspect changes in sensitive areas
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Lower the loop between tasking and receiving satellite data
With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, they can with absolute security
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Be assured of exclusive privacy
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Map large territories and focus on targets in a distance, wherever their location may be
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Monitor frontiers and coastlines on a daily basis
National Mapping & Land Management
In order to help ensure their countries’ citizens’ safety and well-being, authorities regularly need to
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Provide and maintain an up-to-date spatial representation of their country or administrative area
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Generate and deliver geo-information products and map
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Continue censuses and land administration and planning of their country or administrative area
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Undertake sustainable development projects
With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, they
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Receive the most up-dated spatial data
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Generate maps to international standards (up to 1/5000)
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Classify urban structures and edit cadastral information
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Define and regularly monitor hazardous sites
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Simulate layouts for roads and railway tracks
Agriculture and Forestry
For optimized farming activities and a sustainable resource management, these sectors must
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Produce crops in an effective and sustainable way
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Map, assess, monitor crops or forests
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Enforce the application of agricultural regulations and environment protection such as REDD
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Acquire knowledge of forest areas and monitor forest stands
Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services help to
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Increase productivity
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Manage and monitor large cultivated areas from a distance
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Generate accurate and reliable agricultural statistics before harvesting
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Make an inventory of forests and manage them sustainably (tree stands, cuts, fire prevention)
Maritime Monitoring
Accurate, reliable information is a sound basis for maritime safety around the globe,
and required in order to
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Monitor sea traffic
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Detect and track ships
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Detect oil spill
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Monitor sea ice
With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, authorities and private industry alike can reliably:
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Detail information on ships characteristics, oil spills and ice
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Interconnect with AIS information
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Detect vessels and boats down to 5m length
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Task new acquisition urgently and get near-real-time information delivery within 15 minutes