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Direct Receiving Station (DRS)
Direct Receiving Station for Earth Observation
Get direct access to our comprehensive satellite constellation directly through your DRS
Partnering for information superiority
For over 40 years, Airbus has pioneered Earth Observation, delivering valuable insights to customers and enabling decisive missions & tactical operations around the world.
Our Direct Receiving Stations offer direct access to our Earth Observation capabilities, ensuring full autonomy and the highest degree of confidentiality.
In a context where time is of the essence and fresh information is crucial, Direct Receiving Stations are THE key asset for the greatest challenges.
How does a Direct Receiving Station work?
Operational loop
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Autonomous Tasking request
Through a single, comprehensive tasking programme, entities can place tasking requests over their Area of Interest (AOI) up to 45 min before the satellite pass. By being a DRS partner, you benefit from having a very high priority over your tasking requests in your region, ensuring access to a reliable source of geospatial data.
Downlink directly on your antenna
Once your AOI is acquired by our satellite, receive your telemetry in a few seconds or minutes depending on the amount of data.
Unlimited processing & Local archive
Unlimited production, large diversity of processing options (Primary, Ortho, etc.), reprocessing from your local archive are among the top benefits of having a DRS. With your images processed in less than 30 minutes, you can harness almost near-real time intelligence to support your operations.
Features
- Two distinctive DRS solutions for our optical and radar sensors
- Own infrastructure ensures full autonomy and confidentiality
- Optimised tasking mode, ordering your specific areas of interest, wherever they may be
- Dedicated 24/7 Customer Service
Did you know?
With our DRS, you reduce drastically the latency, accessing fully processed images in minutes compared to hours with regular digital offers.
Your advantages with a Direct Receiving Station
Tasking up to 45 min before acquisition, processing in less than 30 min after downlink
Secured infrastructure, local archive & encrypted telemetry downlink ensuring uncompromised confidentiality
Unlimited production with various processing options. Data dissemination licence to share geospatial intelligence data among your ecosystem
Task the satellites and process your telemetry autonomously. Act as a focal point for trusted intelligence data
A unique asset for your missions
Defence & Intelligence
Owning a dedicated infrastructure in your country reduces drastically the latency to access highly detailed, confidential geospatial information. You can harness almost near-real time intelligence to support your operations.
Mapping
With a DRS, you benefit from having a very high priority on your tasking requests over your area of interest, ensuring rapid coverage and the ability to process your telemetry up to 20,000 km² per day.
Rapid Response
Our satellite constellation supports emergency services for both preventive and responsive missions. With accurate and rapid information, you ensure efficient crisis management.
Maritime Surveillance
Maritime Surveillance covers a large range of activities, you can share data among distinctive national and/or regional organisations thus strengthening collaboration and delivering cross-entities value.
Want to speak with sales?
Our sales team will be happy to provide you with more information about DRS and how it can meet your business needs.
What our customers say
PASCO supports disaster prevention, mitigation and emergency response activities using its geospatial information technology to secure lives and property to help avoid stagnation in economic activities. The benefits that Pléiades and SPOT imagery provides can be combined with other geospatial information and data so that PASCO can help responders prioritise disaster response and reconstruction work.
Ishizuka Takaya
Satellite Business Division - PASCO
