Case Studies

Airbus provides support on emergency response after a natural disaster in New Caledonia

Managing trees, shrubs and plants alongside the railway is essential for any network company. With its partner FLAC Airbus developed a solution to prevent the danger of trees falling onto the tracks to keep the railways safe and operational.

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.

In April 2012, the World Health Assembly declared the completion of polio eradication a programmatic emergency for global public health. Discover how Pléiades supported his partner GIM to foster a more efficient distribution of millions of vaccines even in the remotest areas.

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.

2016 RAID Expedition to Antarctica, Pléiades tracks the convoy of tractors between two polar stations

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Hurricane Matthew, a Category 5 Hurricane, hit the Eastern Coast of the United States, as well as the Western Atlantic region, including: Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Lucayan Archipelago in late September 2016. The hurricane left the Western Atlantic in devastation with over 1600 estimated deaths in the region.

Airbus Defence and Space presents the Pléiades images of the 14 largest stadiums in the United States. The impressive architecture of these stadiums has contributed to making US Football one of the most followed sporting events in the world.

The construction of pipelines and offshore oil recoveries as well entail intense dredging activities, which consist in moving underwater sediments from one place to anonther and thus disturbing water quality. Solutions to monitor water quality and compliance rely more and more on satellite imagery.

In 2015, Simplot and Airbus DS entered the field of Precision Farming with Pleiades in a Pilot Program.

In October 2015, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Hindu Kush Range in Afghanistan. SUPARCO, the Pakistan National Space Agency, was requested to provide damage assessment maps of the affected areas in the shortest timeframe to efficiently support the management of relief and rescue operations.

Three days of record rainfall turned the Sava river into a deadly torrent and caused the worst floods in Serbia in more than a century. Airbus Defence and Space tasked all satellites of the constellation in order to support the international emergency response and speed up post damage assessment.