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Airbus Elevation

Very high resolution 50 cm digital surface and terrain models, acquired worldwide from tasking.

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.

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

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An Elevation 0.5 DSM of Marseille (France)

Geographic coverage and restrictions

The geographic coverage is global.

Data products

Data productTypeModelCoverage
Airbus — Elevation 0.5 DSMTasking*DSMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 0.5 DTMTasking*DTMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 0.5 BundleTasking*Bundle: DSM and DTMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 1 DSMTasking*DSMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 1 DTMTasking*DTMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 1 BundleTasking*Bundle: DSM and DTMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 4 DSMTasking*DSMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 4 DTMTasking*DTMGlobal
Airbus — Elevation 4 BundleTasking*Bundle: DSM and DTMGlobal

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

Specifications

General

SpecificationDescription
ProviderAirbus
Collection typeTasking
Product typeElevation
Data sourcePléiades Neo and Pléiades

Data

SpecificationDescription
ResolutionElevation 0.5: 50 cm
Elevation 1: 1 m
Elevation 4: 4 m

Geographic reference

SpecificationDescription
Coordinate reference systemElevation 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 accuracyHorizontal:
  • 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 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: 2 m LE90
    • With Ref3D GCPs: 6–10 m LE90
    • Without GCPs: < 10 m LE90
  • Relative: 2 m LE90

Conditions

SpecificationDescription
LimitationsInput: AOI from 10 km
Output: AOI-clipped imagery
Minimum chargeElevation 0.5:
  • DSM: as per 100 km2
  • DTM: as per 100 km2
  • Bundle: as per 50 km2
Elevation 1: as per 100 km2
Elevation 4: as per 100 km2

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