Case Studies

The Battle or Bomb Damage Assessment is a key military activity to evaluate the results and efficiency of strikes. To assess the US BDA over Al Shayrat Airbase from 7 April, Airbus Pléiades captured detailed images afterwards.

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.

Preventing terrorist attacks is a major challenge nowadays as is identifying the people and organisations involved in the process. For the collection of viable information that helps to dismantle terrorist networks and identify the people behind the operations Fortion® MediaMining sheds light on large amounts of data and makes it much more manageable.