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Airbus Elevation

Very high resolution 50 cm digital surface and terrain models, acquired worldwide with a revisit rate of 2 times a day.

Overview

Airbus Elevation provides digital surface models (DSM) and digital terrain models (DTM) generated from Pléiades Neo and Pléiades imagery anywhere on the globe. See more on the marketplace or download sample data.

An Elevation 0.5 DSM of Marseille (France)

Geographic coverage and restrictions

The geographic coverage is global.

Data products

Data productModelCoverage
Elevation 0.5 DSM*DSMGlobal
Elevation 0.5 DTM*DTMGlobal
Elevation 0.5 Bundle*Bundle: DSM and DTMGlobal
Elevation 1 DSM*DSMGlobal
Elevation 1 DTM*DTMGlobal
Elevation 1 Bundle*Bundle: DSM and DTMGlobal
Elevation 4 DSM*DSMGlobal
Elevation 4 DTM*DTMGlobal
Elevation 4 Bundle*Bundle: DSM and DTMGlobal

*This data product isn’t integrated into the platform and can only be ordered upon request.

Specifications

General

Specification Description
Provider Airbus
Collection type Tasking
Product type Elevation
System type Satellite

Data

SpecificationDescription
Resolution

Elevation 0.5: 50 cm

Elevation 1: 1 m

Elevation 4: 4 m
MasksTransparency
NoData value-32,767
Data sourcePléiades Neo and Pléiades

System

SpecificationDescription
Tasking priorityStandard
OrbitSun-synchronous, at 620 km
Number of satellites2
Revisit rate2 times a day

Geographic reference

SpecificationDescription
Coordinate reference system

Elevation 0.5:

  • Geographic-WGS84 with EGM2008 height
  • UTM-WGS84 with EGM2008 height

Elevation 1 and Elevation 4:

  • Geographic-WGS84 with EGM96 height
  • UTM-WGS84 with EGM96 height
Positional accuracy

Elevation 0.5 positional accuracy Horizontal:

  • Absolute:
    • With GCPs: 0.6 m RMSE
    • Without GCPs: 3–5 m CE90
  • Relative: < 1 m CE90

Vertical:

  • Absolute:
    • With GCPs: 0.5 m RMSE
    • Without GCPs: 3–5 m LE90
  • Relative: < 1 m LE90

Elevation 1 positional accuracyHorizontal:

  • Absolute:
    • With GCPs: 1.5 m CE90
    • With Ref3D GCPs: 6–10 m CE90
    • Without GCPs: 8.5–10.5 m CE90
  • Relative: 1.5 m CE90 Vertical:
  • Absolute:
    • With GCPs: 1.5 m LE90
    • With Ref3D GCPs: 6–10 m LE90
    • Without GCPs: < 10 m LE90
  • Relative: 1.5 m LE90

Elevation 4 positional accuracy Horizontal:

  • Absolute:
    • With GCPs: 1.5 m CE90
    • With Ref3D GCPs: 6–10 m CE90
    • Without GCPs: 8.5–10.5 m CE90
  • Relative: 1.5 m CE90

Vertical:

  • Absolute:
    • With GCPs: 2 m LE90
    • With Ref3D GCPs: 6–10 m LE90
    • Without GCPs: < 10 m LE90
  • Relative: 2 m LE90

Conditions

SpecificationDescription
Limitations

Input: AOI from 10 km

Output: AOI-clipped imagery
Minimum chargeAs per 100 km2

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