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Airbus Defence and Space Launches
“One Atlas” Satellite Image Library for Agricultural Applications
Airbus Defence and Space has announced the
e service offers a streamlined work ow, and
and Space. “We take care of everything: updating,
launch of One Atlas, a brand new satellite image
the costs related to updating, selecting,
selecting, processing and hosting – all to make it
basemap, which covers the earth's landmasses
processing and hosting imagery are drastically
easier, cheaper and faster for our customers.”
with professional grade imagery. is service will
reduced. Seamlessly integrated into the
is new service has applications for a variety of
soon be available online and all imagery will be
customer's system, One Atlas facilitates the
industries such as oil, gas, mining, agriculture,
completely refreshed every 12 months. One Atlas
sharing of data across teams or partner
defense, and security. However, the new service
will provide agricultural organizations with easy
organizations, with no compromise on security
will not include specialized technology for
access and cost-effe c t ive hig h-qu a lit y,
or privacy. It also enables users to plan, map and
agriculture which facilitates real-time crop
homogeneous imagery.
One Atlas has been speci cally developed to
locate their teams, assets or areas of interest,
vegetation index monitoring via geospatial
anywhere on the globe, allowing operators to
technologies. ere are some more advanced
support applications within the agricultural
devote more time to their core mission.
services which can monitor the difference
sector, providing the opportunity to delineate
“With One Atlas, we de nitively reduce the
between healthy and stressed plants by
parcel boundaries, map agricultural lands and
barriers for agricultural clients to access our
representing the amount of light they're re ecting
crop species, as well as being able to track and
data,” said Bernhard Brenner, Head of
in different bands of the electromagnetic
trace tractors and irrigation assets.
Intelligence Business Cluster at Airbus Defence
spectrum.
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