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2016 JRC MeetingQuality standard at AirbusMay 23rd, 2015

Pierre Boubée

March, 2015 – 2

The Power of Airbus Group

COMMUNICATIONSINTELLIGENCE & SECURITY (CIS)

MILITARY AIRCRAFT

SPACE SYSTEMS

Airbus Group

Secure Communications

Intelligence Cyber Security New Business

Airbus Airbus Defence and Space Airbus Helicopters

As part of the Airbus group, we benefit from the power and strength of a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services, guaranteeing confidence in our commitment to provide sustainable Earth observation and defencesolutions.

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March, 2015 – 3

Our Products and Services

SATELLITE IMAGERY

The most comprehensive Earth observation satellite constellation commercially

available today:

6 Optical and 2 Radar : Pléiades, SPOT 6/7, DMCs,

TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X

IMAGERY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES

Reference layers

Data management & access

Sites & assets monitoring

Analytics

Software suite

INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE RECONNAISSANCE

Collection, Planning, Tasking and Disseminationof intelligence data from

multiple sources

Country wide real time surveillance systems

COMMAND & CONTROL

Joint & Land Command and Control

Ground based Air Defence C2

Military Air Traffic Control

March, 2015 – 4

QC, a big challenge

Satellites Technology,

Fleet of satellites,

Volume of data,

Commitments wrt Clients,

�Acquisitions,

�Delivery,

�Reactivity,

�7/7,

�24/24, …

Including time of crisis.

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Makes a big challenge, a key point!

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March, 2015 – 5

A Unique Satellite Fleet

SPOT 5

SPOT 6SPOT 7

Pléiades 1BPléiades 1A

TerraSAR-XTanDEM-X

FORMOSAT-2

DEIMOS-1PAZ

TerraSAR-X Next Generation

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Airbus Service Level Agreement

Pléiades SPOT 6/7

Aquisition capacity 0,7M km² daily 6M km² daily

Imagery less than 10% clouds 51% 45%

Monthly delivered products 5 digits 4 digits

Average % of products delivered in 12h00 (routine mode - SLA 24h)

98% 97%

% of products delivered in less than our rush mode SLA – 12h In an hour: 99% In less than 2h30: 100%

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March, 2015 – 7

How?

How products are received, prepared, generated, …?

How quality and integrity are preserved?

Which process do we use to preserve, …..?

Commitment.

Images delivered meet our specifications.

Quality Control guarantees.

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March, 2015 – 8

Quality Control cycle

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Image collection

Payload raw data reception

Generation of standard image

products

Generation of added value

products

Customers

Request DefinitionMission Plan Elaboration

Work Plan generation

Mission plan uplink

Catalogue browsing &

queries

ArchiveCatalogue

ProductsDelivery

Users Needs

collection

S-band X-band

Archiving

Image monitoring

and quality checkImage monitoring

and quality check

Image monitoring

and quality check

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March, 2015 – 9

Space to Earth

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In-orbit control and functioning of payload,

Calibration and pre-processing parameters,

Image monitoring and calibration during lifetime,

Reception of images, processing of telemetry,

Archiving and catalogue updates,

Cloud, snow, … assessment,

Product processing,

Product quality check,

Product delivering.

Space segment

Ground segment

Products for end-users � Information,

� technical support,

� Reclaim, ….

March, 2015 – 10

Why, where and what?

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Product Quality

Product Quality Proof…

Satellite�Monitor/Calibrate the on-board image calibration parameters

�Publish status on image performances

Reception to archiving �Data quality assessments on new acquisitions for cataloguing

Production facilities �Check/analyse process anomalies affecting final products

�Validate product/process improvement evolutions�Monitor/Calibrate the on-ground image calibration and pre-processing parameters

Delivering �Check quality before delivery to customers: OK, NOTOK (defects, artefacts)

�Analyse quality after delivery in case of customer complaint: justified/not-justified�Status, synthesis, statistics on defective products

Customers and public information�Catalog requests: reliability/usability of selected info portraying quality

�Public documentation: product technical requirements, quality performances�Academic publications, etc

WHATWHERE

« Quality Check Team »+

« Production Team »+

« Image chain engineers »

« Technical Support », « Marketing Team », « Image Experts » ….

« Image Quality and Calibration Team »

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March, 2015 – 11

Image monitoring and calibration during satellites life

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• Constantly measure and monitor the image’s calibrat ion coefficients and parameter corrections– Geometry: focal plan, camera alignments, location bias, inter-band registration …– Radiometry: gain offsets & dark currents of detectors, absolute calibration per spectral band, Signal to Noise, FTM …

• Regular update of these parameters:– Mission center for those uploaded at satellite level:

– Radiometry: detectors equalization (OBDC)

– Geometry (location bias) : gyros, star trackers calibration

– Production centres (Main centre, DRS) for image pre-processing, which involves making radiometric and geometric adjustments to correct systematic errors, and fill reliable calibration values into metadata file

– GIPPs files (Ground Image Pre-Processing files)

• To regularly publish internally status on image per formances

• To improve the image performances

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On Ground

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Each step,

Criterias,

Thresholds,

Alerts,

Human checks,

Analyse, …

Volume,

Chronogram,

Maintenance contract,

Auto-checks,

Timing, …

Examples of quality assessments at “inventory” (fully automatic):

� Lost block of data at transmission/reception,

� Saturated data,

� Cloud quotation,

� Snow quotation

� …

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March, 2015 – 13

Figures

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# orders # products with possible quality issue # produc ts with potential impact on customer

Last six-month exercise 0,62% of production 0,56% of production

� Customer dialog, …

� To meet performances not requirements,

� Customer satisfaction.

Final error rate -> 0,02%

Number of reclaim due to a product defect

1 cell value of DTED0 per 4 000 000 pixels PHR (Pan ) 1 cell value of DTED2 per 3 600 pixels PHR (Pan)

True position of road

Direction of DEM ortho-correction

Curved feature visual artifact

According to Airbus DS Standard -> Including defects and anesthetic artefacts

Includes image, artefacts and landscape effects.

Sensor detectors (raw image pixels)

hidden area length

Ortho image pixelsThe one raw pixel

is stretched to eight ortho pixels

Viewing direction(from satellite azimuth)

March, 2015 – 14

Thank you for your attention