Airbus

A European multinational aerospace corporation designing, manufacturing, and selling commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense, and space products. Through its Space Solutions / OneAtlas division Airbus publishes a developer API portal for satellite imagery, mapping, and elevation data.

5 APIs 6 Features

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APIs

OneAtlas Living Library API

Subscription-based catalogue access to Airbus Living Library Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, and SPOT optical imagery for AOI search, preview, and streaming.

OneAtlas Pay-Per-Order Archives API

On-demand purchase of historical archive imagery from Airbus optical and radar constellations on a pay-per-order basis.

OneAtlas Pay-Per-Order Tasking API

On-demand satellite tasking for new imagery acquisitions over a user-defined area of interest, with priority and acquisition-window options.

OneAtlas Basemap API

Global high-resolution basemap tile service derived from Airbus optical imagery, suitable for embedding in GIS and web mapping applications.

OneAtlas Radar & Elevation API

Access to Airbus radar (SAR) imagery and elevation products including WorldDEM, suitable for change detection, surveillance, and terrain analysis.

Collections

Airbus OneAtlas API (Authentication)

OPEN

Pricing Plans

Airbus Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Airbus Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Airbus Finops

FINOPS

Features

Optical Imagery

Access to Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, and SPOT optical imagery via the Living Library catalogue and archive ordering.

Radar Imagery

SAR imagery from the TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X constellation and from the new Radar Constellation.

Satellite Tasking

Pay-per-order tasking for new imagery acquisitions over a user-defined AOI.

Elevation Products

Global elevation models including WorldDEM derived from Airbus radar interferometry.

Basemap Tile Service

High-resolution global basemap tile service for embedding in GIS and web maps.

API Key + OAuth 2.0

Authentication via per-user API key issued by the OneAtlas account portal with OAuth 2.0 access-token exchange.

Use Cases

Land-Use / Land-Cover Monitoring

Periodic optical imagery used to monitor land-use change, deforestation, agriculture, and urban expansion.

Defense & Intelligence

Tasking and archive ordering of high-resolution optical and SAR imagery for defense and intelligence customers.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Repeat radar acquisitions for monitoring pipelines, dams, mines, and other linear infrastructure.

GIS Basemaps

Embedding the OneAtlas basemap into GIS workflows and web-mapping products.

Disaster Response

Rapid tasking and archive ordering after natural disasters to support response and recovery.

Integrations

ArcGIS

Esri ArcGIS integrations for streaming Airbus basemaps and imagery into the ArcGIS platform.

QGIS

QGIS plugins for connecting to Airbus tile and WMS / WMTS services.

AWS

Airbus distributes selected imagery products through AWS Marketplace and Earth on AWS.

Skywise

Aviation-data platform powered by Airbus and Palantir, exposed to airline operators via separate enterprise integration.

Resources

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Sources

opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Airbus OneAtlas API (Authentication)
  version: '1.0'
request:
  auth:
    type: bearer
    token: '{{bearerToken}}'
items:
- info:
    name: Authentication
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Exchange API key for bearer access token
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://authenticate.foundation.api.oneatlas.airbus.com/auth/realms/IDP/protocol/openid-connect/token
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data:
        - name: apikey
          value: ''
        - name: client_id
          value: ''
        - name: grant_type
          value: ''
    docs: 'POST your OneAtlas API key to obtain a short-lived bearer access token

      (1 hour) used by all downstream OneAtlas product APIs.

      '
- info:
    name: Catalog
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Catalog OpenSearch (Living Library and archives)
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://authenticate.foundation.api.oneatlas.airbus.com/api/v1/opensearch
      params:
      - name: bbox
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: startDate
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: endDate
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: productType
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: cloudCover
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: constellation
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: 'Search OneAtlas satellite imagery catalog using OpenSearch parameters

      such as `bbox`, `startDate`, `endDate`, `productType`, `cloudCover` and

      `constellation`. Requires bearer token authentication.

      '
bundled: true