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About Us

Delivering insight and value from data in our digital world

In today’s world information is everything. But it can be a challenge to come by the right information, at the right time, in the right format. At Airbus Intelligence, we support our customers with technologies and capabilities to strengthen how they plan and respond to challenges and missions - with greater speed and higher certainty. With 40+ years of experience in Earth Observation and Defence Systems, we provide sustainable solutions that deliver exactly what our customer's need, when they need it, where they need it.

Your trusted partner for Geospatial Data and Defence Solutions

Our Intelligence portfolio is exciting, attractive and differentiating. It blends 30 years of experience within the domains of and Earth Observation. This allows Intelligence to serve you in over 100 countries across more than 12 industry sectors - be it commercial, institutional or defence.

Today, Intelligence is recognised as:

"We pioneer sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world" - that is Airbus' purpose


Harald Mannheilm

"The Intelligence business line holds a broad, customer-focused portfolio which we are proud of. Together with our partners we provide evolutionary technologies and reliable data to create information as well as decision superiority at the speed of relevance and across all domains."

Harald Mannheim,
Director Intelligence Business,
at Airbus Defence and Space

Our growing Portfolio

We provide proprietary satellite imagery and geospatial analytics to decision makers and analysts across multiple industries, who require a precise and remote view of our changing planet. Our imagery and data is as diverse as the needs of our customers - whether you are looking for wide coverage, fine detail, intensive monitoring, premium reactivity, timely image acquisition or extensive archives - we have the right solution and combination of products.

Based on our data expertise coupled with 30+ years of commercial and institutional know-how, we have developed an unprecedented intelligence portfolio for our defence, security and intelligence partners. Our multi-intelligence solutions cover the full defence intelligence cycle - from data collection, processing and analysis to information dissemination and monitoring. Augmented with third party and open-source intelligence, it is unrivalled in the marketplace, providing our customers with a complete situational awareness picture. We deliver single solutions or highly complex integrated intelligence systems, with multi-sensor capabilities - whichever best suits our client’s needs.

To continuously reinforce our leading position in Earth Observation and Defence Systems we are always working on cutting edge-technologies and innovative future solutions to serve our customers and partners even better. Leveraging the bold ideas of our teams with those of leading experts in the field as well as our customers and partners involvement, we never stop innovating.

 

Intelligence in a nutshell

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CUSTOMERS

  • 2,000+ customers in 167 countries
  • including >300 customers in Defence in over 30 countries

 

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PARTNERS

  • 161 Resellers in 77 countries
  • 26 Direct Receiving Station Partners
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EMPLOYEES

  • 2,000 employees in 10 countries
  • 23 Offices

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We deliver multi-sensor, multi-resolution, multi-source data

Our Focus

For 30+ years Airbus Intelligence has been your trusted partner for premium Geospatial Data and Defence Solutions.

 

	We continuously innovate geospatial solutions

Innovation

We are driven by the ambition to launch improved digital services, advanced solutions and new partnerships that continue to deliver true value.

Our Global Reach

With 2,000 employees in 10 countries and an extensive network of partners, we ensure a local presence around the globe.

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