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Title
Airbus Defence and Space Uses Deep Learning and Google Cloud to Deliver Real-Time Satellite Imagery
…ganized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Airbus: Charting new territory with Google Cloud About Airbus Defence and Space With an exclusive access to a unique constellati…
Description
Airbus Defence and Space's Intelligence business line rebuilt its satellite imagery platform, OneAtlas, on Google Cloud, using Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud Datastore to serve more than 1,200 customers in over 100 countries. Airbus trained TensorFlow deep learning models to recognize cloud cover, cutting its cloud-detection error rate from 11% to 3%, and the new platform reduced the time for customers to access satellite imagery from hours to less than half a second while adding millions of square kilometers of imagery weekly.
…nnovative pricing schemes Adds millions of square kilometers of imagery per day Airbus Intelligence , a unit of the Airbus Defence and Space division, delivers comprehensive, up-to-date satellite imagery and data to more than 1,200 customers in over 100 countries around the world. Since its founding more than three decades ago, Airbus Intelligence has expande…
…Airbus trained deep learning algorithms in TensorFlow to recognize cloud cover. After switching to TensorFlow, Airbus found that its error rate for detecting clouds dropped from 11% to 3%. To process the images, Airbus relied heavily on Google’s managed services. With…
Company
Airbus Defence and Space
…ent based on your preferences. Airbus: Charting new territory with Google Cloud About Airbus Defence and Space With an exclusive access to a unique constellation of radar and optical satelli…
Industry
Aerospace & Defense
…ata, Airbus works to make the world a more connected, safer, and smarter place. Industries: Technology Location: France Products: Cloud Datastore , Kubernetes Engine , Cloud Pub/Sub…
Country
France
…ke the world a more connected, safer, and smarter place. Industries: Technology Location: France Products: Cloud Datastore , Kubernetes Engine , Cloud Pub/Sub , Cloud Storage T…
Problem
Airbus Intelligence's existing satellite imagery solution could not speed up production and delivery of image and data products fast enough to meet growing customer expectations; customers had to choose images from a catalogue and wait several hours to receive them, and the specialized imagery required customers to have significant technical capability to use it.
…bus would process them and download them into the company’s library. From here, customers would choose the images they wanted from a catalogue and then several hours later, they would receive them. Over time, as technology grew more sophisticated and Airbus added to its fleet…
Solution
Airbus built a new platform called OneAtlas on Google Cloud, using Google Kubernetes Engine to orchestrate image-processing workloads and scale compute up and down with demand, Cloud Pub/Sub for messaging, Cloud Datastore and Cloud Storage to hold and serve imagery and data, and trained deep learning algorithms in TensorFlow to automatically recognize cloud cover in satellite imagery.
…3%. To process the images, Airbus relied heavily on Google’s managed services. With Google Kubernetes Engine orchestrating the various methods used to extract information from the images, the company could scale its compute power up and down as demand increased and decreased. Cloud Pub/Sub was used for messaging and the data was held in Cloud Datastore ,…
Technology
Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Datastore, Cloud Storage, TensorFlow
…re connected, safer, and smarter place. Industries: Technology Location: France Products: Cloud Datastore , Kubernetes Engine , Cloud Pub/Sub , Cloud Storage Tell us your challenge. We're here to help. Contact us The Intelligence busines…
Deployment model
cloud
…our challenge. We're here to help. Contact us The Intelligence business line of Airbus Defence and Space uses Google Cloud to build a scalable, online platform, enabling customers to access petabytes of satellite imagery in real time. Goog…
Deployment options
cloud
…our challenge. We're here to help. Contact us The Intelligence business line of Airbus Defence and Space uses Google Cloud to build a scalable, online platform, enabling customers to access petabytes of satellite imagery in real time. Goog…
Use case type
Visual inspection
…data capturing. In addition to its own well-honed image-processing techniques, Airbus trained deep learning algorithms in TensorFlow to recognize cloud cover. After switching to TensorFlow, Airbus found that its error rate for detecting…
Headline outcome
…Airbus trained deep learning algorithms in TensorFlow to recognize cloud cover. After switching to TensorFlow, Airbus found that its error rate for detecting clouds dropped from 11% to 3%. To process the images, Airbus relied heavily on Google’s managed services. With…
AI capabilities
Computer Vision
…data capturing. In addition to its own well-honed image-processing techniques, Airbus trained deep learning algorithms in TensorFlow to recognize cloud cover. After switching to TensorFlow, Airbus found that its error rate for detecting…
