aid: airbus
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/airbus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Airbus
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Aerospace
  - Defense
  - Manufacturing
  - Aviation
  - Earth Observation
  - Satellite Imagery
description: '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.'
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-05-16'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: airbus:oneatlas-living-library
    name: OneAtlas Living Library API
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Satellite Imagery
      - Living Library
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
    properties:
      - url: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
        type: Portal
      - url: https://account.foundation.oneatlas.airbus.com/
        type: AccountManagement
    description: 'Subscription-based catalogue access to Airbus Living Library Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, and SPOT optical imagery for AOI search, preview, and streaming.'
  - aid: airbus:oneatlas-pay-per-order-archives
    name: OneAtlas Pay-Per-Order Archives API
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Satellite Imagery
      - Archives
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
    properties:
      - url: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
        type: Portal
    description: 'On-demand purchase of historical archive imagery from Airbus optical and radar constellations on a pay-per-order basis.'
  - aid: airbus:oneatlas-pay-per-order-tasking
    name: OneAtlas Pay-Per-Order Tasking API
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Satellite Imagery
      - Tasking
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
    properties:
      - url: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
        type: Portal
    description: 'On-demand satellite tasking for new imagery acquisitions over a user-defined area of interest, with priority and acquisition-window options.'
  - aid: airbus:oneatlas-basemap
    name: OneAtlas Basemap API
    tags:
      - Mapping
      - Basemap
      - Earth Observation
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
    properties:
      - url: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
        type: Portal
    description: 'Global high-resolution basemap tile service derived from Airbus optical imagery, suitable for embedding in GIS and web mapping applications.'
  - aid: airbus:oneatlas-radar-elevation
    name: OneAtlas Radar & Elevation API
    tags:
      - Radar
      - SAR
      - Elevation
      - DEM
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
    properties:
      - url: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
        type: Portal
    description: 'Access to Airbus radar (SAR) imagery and elevation products including WorldDEM, suitable for change detection, surveillance, and terrain analysis.'
common:
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/airbus
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/airbusgroup
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.airbus.com/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://api.oneatlas.airbus.com/
  - type: AccountManagement
    url: https://account.foundation.oneatlas.airbus.com/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.oneatlas.airbus.com/
  - type: Features
    data:
      - name: Optical Imagery
        description: Access to Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, and SPOT optical imagery via the Living Library catalogue and archive ordering.
      - name: Radar Imagery
        description: SAR imagery from the TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X constellation and from the new Radar Constellation.
      - name: Satellite Tasking
        description: Pay-per-order tasking for new imagery acquisitions over a user-defined AOI.
      - name: Elevation Products
        description: Global elevation models including WorldDEM derived from Airbus radar interferometry.
      - name: Basemap Tile Service
        description: High-resolution global basemap tile service for embedding in GIS and web maps.
      - name: API Key + OAuth 2.0
        description: Authentication via per-user API key issued by the OneAtlas account portal with OAuth 2.0 access-token exchange.
  - type: UseCases
    data:
      - name: Land-Use / Land-Cover Monitoring
        description: Periodic optical imagery used to monitor land-use change, deforestation, agriculture, and urban expansion.
      - name: Defense & Intelligence
        description: Tasking and archive ordering of high-resolution optical and SAR imagery for defense and intelligence customers.
      - name: Infrastructure Monitoring
        description: Repeat radar acquisitions for monitoring pipelines, dams, mines, and other linear infrastructure.
      - name: GIS Basemaps
        description: Embedding the OneAtlas basemap into GIS workflows and web-mapping products.
      - name: Disaster Response
        description: Rapid tasking and archive ordering after natural disasters to support response and recovery.
  - type: Authentication
    data:
      - name: API Key
        description: Per-user API key issued via the OneAtlas account portal.
      - name: OAuth 2.0
        description: OAuth 2.0 token exchange (token endpoint at authenticate.foundation.api.oneatlas.airbus.com) using the API key.
      - name: Account Onboarding
        description: Production access requires an active commercial agreement and account on account.foundation.oneatlas.airbus.com.
  - type: Compliance
    data:
      - name: GDPR
        description: General Data Protection Regulation compliance for European customers.
      - name: Export Control
        description: High-resolution imagery and radar products are subject to French / EU dual-use export controls (Regulation EU 2021/821) and U.S. EAR re-export rules where applicable.
      - name: ITAR / Dual-Use
        description: Airbus Defense and Space products are governed by national defense-export regimes including ITAR equivalents and EU dual-use regulation.
  - type: Integrations
    data:
      - name: ArcGIS
        description: Esri ArcGIS integrations for streaming Airbus basemaps and imagery into the ArcGIS platform.
      - name: QGIS
        description: QGIS plugins for connecting to Airbus tile and WMS / WMTS services.
      - name: AWS
        description: Airbus distributes selected imagery products through AWS Marketplace and Earth on AWS.
      - name: Skywise
        description: Aviation-data platform powered by Airbus and Palantir, exposed to airline operators via separate enterprise integration.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com