Description :
On April 29th 2021, the Earth Observation (EO) satellite Pléiades Neo 3 was successfully launched. On August 10th its twin sister, Pléiades Neo 4 joined her in orbit. This marks the entrance of European Satellites on the 30cm imagery market. In 2022, Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 will be launched in order to complete the 4-satellite constellation. With its 30cm native resolution and unique capabilities, Pléiades Neo becomes one of the best EO assets for demanding environment such as Defence and Security organisations worldwide. This very high-resolution and geometrically consistent imagery provide them with a high level of detail, including more visibility of small objects, such as vehicles and road markings. The level of detection, recognition and identification of objects provides more ground truth and improves reliability of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities. The new constellation will also provide a higher geolocation accuracy and deeper spectral band information, allowing more insights to be derived for various applications, including mission preparation, battle damage assessment, strategic monitoring… In addition to very high quality imagery, Pléiades Neo also dramatically increases satellite revisit capability and near real-time data acquisition, combined with other space technologies such as laser communication.
Beyond strictly addressing Defence and Security organisations, it is also key during LPS 22 to see what AI and ML solutions can extract from such imagery data. The objective is to show what you can do with Pléiades Neo in the frame of Defence and Security, whether just using imagery or combining it with analytics. Approximately one year after the launch of the first satellite, speaking at LPS 22 is also the occasion to see where Europe is at, on the EO satellite market for Defence.

Speaker:
Pierre-Alain Bosc (Head of Regional Sales)