Industry Applications

For efficient planning and monitoring, from assessment to remediation, the oil, gas, mining and energy industries need to:

• Thoroughly explore geological and hydrological resources
• Optimize site planning and installation
• 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

• Identify and select potential new exploration sites
• Lower operating costs
• Map the possible impact of exploration

Accurate and fresh information, when and where they need it, is key for
Defence & Security organisations – hence they are eager to

• Increase the number of information sources to reinforce surveillance of territories
• Detect and inspect changes in sensitive areas
• Lower the loop between tasking and receiving satellite data

With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, they can with absolute security

• Be assured of exclusive privacy
• Map large territories and focus on targets in a distance, wherever their location may be
• Monitor frontiers and coastlines on a daily basis

In order to help ensure their countries’ citizens’ safety and well-being, authorities regularly need to

• Provide and maintain an up-to-date spatial representation of their country or administrative area
• Generate and deliver geo-information products and map
• Continue censuses and land administration and planning of their country or administrative area
• Undertake sustainable development projects

With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, they

• Receive the most up-dated spatial data
• Generate maps to international standards (up to 1/5000)
• Classify urban structures and edit cadastral information
• Define and regularly monitor hazardous sites
• Simulate layouts for roads and railway tracks

For optimized farming activities and a sustainable resource management, these sectors must

• Produce crops in an effective and sustainable way
• Map, assess, monitor crops or forests
• Enforce the application of agricultural regulations and environment protection such as REDD
• Acquire knowledge of forest areas and monitor forest stands

Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services help to

• Increase productivity
• Manage and monitor large cultivated areas from a distance
• Generate accurate and reliable agricultural statistics before harvesting
• Make an inventory of forests and manage them sustainably (tree stands, cuts, fire prevention)

Accurate, reliable information is a sound basis for maritime safety around the globe,
and required in order to

• Monitor sea traffic
• Detect and track ships
• Detect oil spill
• Monitor sea ice

With Airbus Defence and Space’s Direct Constellation Services, authorities and private industry alike can reliably:

• Detail information on ships characteristics, oil spills and ice
• Interconnect with AIS information
• Detect vessels and boats down to 5m length
• Task new acquisition urgently and get near-real-time information delivery within 15 minutes