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Research Programmes
Access Airbus Satellite Data to support your project. Airbus supports a variety of programmes below
Pioneering is key for Airbus
We actively support students, university researchers and scientists with discovering solutions for the world's most complex problems.
At Airbus, our goal is to support academic and commercial institutions by granting them access to the Airbus satellite constellation, featuring the highest resolution commercial satellite imagery in the market. Depending on your project, there are different programmes to apply to access our imagery.
NASA CSDA programme
The CSDA programme evaluates and procures data from commercial vendors that advance NASA’s Earth science research and applications activities. Data through the programme is available to NASA-funded researchers for scientific use. Airbus Optical and Radar imagery products and services are available through the program.
ESA Thrid Party Mission (TPM)
The ESA Third Party Programme (TPM) supplies optical and radar data for scientific research and application development. Users need to submit their request and be accepted to the programme. Airbus is honoured to contribute to the ESA PTM programme, which gathers data from over 60 instruments. This includes data from Airbus’ optical and radar satellite constellation.
The International Charter: space and major disasters
The International Charter space and major disasters is a unique and worldwide collaboration, through which satellite data are made available to support crisis management. The Charter enables resources and expertise to be coordinated for rapid response to major disaster situations; thereby helping civil protection authorities and the international humanitarian community. From the very beginning, Airbus satellites have played an active role in the Charter as we took part in the first Charter activation, after a huge landslide occurred in Slovenia in November 2000. The arrival of the Charter reshaped the ways of working for the Airbus team in charge of satellite tasking. They moved from normal working-hours to a real 24/7 set-up to make sure they were ready and available to support requests from the Charter.
Copernicus Rapid Response
Airbus delivers on-demand and worldwide VHR Optical Earth Observation data (SPOT, Pléiades and Pléiades Neo) as rapid and efficient as possible to Copernicus users. These data support security, emergency and natural disasters purposes with a high level of performance. Airbus provides through its APIs a fully functioning operational EO data provisioning service which is integrated in the most synergetic way with the CCM Rapid Response Desk Service.
Education and research
Pléiades and SPOT
For access to SPOT and Pléiades data contact DINAMIS (Dispositif Institutionnel National d’Approvisionnement Mutualisé en Imagerie Satellitaire). DINAMIS is a platform that acquires and distributes Earth satellite imagery for French institutional users (as well as scientific and public players) and European scientists (under specific subscription conditions) for research activities in the frame of their institutional missions and innovation purposes.
The platform aims to ease the access to very high resolution commercial optical satellite data (Pléiades, SPOT). It also serves as a relay for free high resolution optical and radar images.
If you wish to get more details about this initiative and request imagery for your own project, please refer to the DINAMIS web site.
Contact: dinamis@cnes.fr
Radar Constellation (TerraSAR-X / PAZ)
For access to radar data please contact the experts from the German Aerospace Centre.
Vision-1
For access to Vision-1 please contact our UK customer care team
Academic pricing
We offer flexible pricing and usage to our data services within OneAtlas including: Living Library, Basemap and One Tasking according to the terms and conditions of our academic licence.
Need imagery for an application?
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