Airbus Defence and Space and The Netherlands Ministry of Defence have entered on 7 January 2025 into a four-year agreement to provide optical, radar, analytics, elevation and advanced products through the OneAtlas platform. This collaboration will support intelligence operations, mission planning and decision-making processes of the ministry.
This partnership confirms the confidence of the Dutch Ministry of Defence in Airbus to provide state-of-the-art geospatial solutions to support the ministry’s operational and strategic needs. With access to the OneAtlas satellite data platform, the Dutch Ministry has the ability to unlock actionable insights through unmatched geospatial data, including satellite images with 30cm native resolution, and analytics capabilities. The new contract will complement the long lasting partnership on OneAtlas Basemap with additional analytics, radar, elevation data and satellite tasking services.
Rob Postma
President Airbus Netherlands
From January 2025 on, the Dutch Ministry of Defence has access to the Airbus OneAtlas satellite data platform. Through this partnership the Ministry will benefit from an extensive suite of capabilities including optical, radar, and elevation data. The optical data component offers access to the satellite constellations SPOT, Pléiades and Pléiades Neo archive and highly reactive tasking, delivering high-resolution images ranging from 1.5m to 30cm native resolution and enhanced visual rendering of Pléiades Neo HD15 images. These resources will reinforce the Ministry’s missions and analytical operations.
In addition, the agreement grants the Ministry access to the Airbus Radar Constellation, which includes three satellites with data ranging from 25cm to 40m resolution. Radar imagery can be collected independent of weather and daylight conditions over any point on Earth and is especially suited for increased acquisition capacity, improved global mean revisit time and a significantly reduced interferometric repetition cycle to support data-intensive, high-frequency surveillance applications. Airbus will also provide digital elevation models (WorldDEM), optical based elevation ranging from 0.5m to 4m grid spacing and 3D textured models to describe the topography of areas, this supports especially information-driven activities such as mission planning and disaster response.
The OneAtlas platform offers a global image dataset, satellite tasking options as well as radar, 3D and analytics, ensuring that military and civilian personnel within the Dutch Ministry of Defence have access to up-to-date, high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial information for operational planning and mission monitoring.
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