# Airbus

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/airbus/  
**Website:** https://www.airbus.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 41.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 57.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **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.
- **Airbus Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Airbus — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
- **Airbus Catalog API** — The Catalog API from Airbus — 1 operation(s) for catalog.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Airbus Agentic Access** — 2 operations · 1 acting

## Security (3)

- **Airbus Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Airbus Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Airbus Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Airbus Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **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.

## Tags

Aerospace, Defense, Manufacturing, Aviation, Earth Observation, Satellite Imagery

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/airbus/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.