Pléiades Neo Applications Campus: first agreement signed
The CNES and Airbus selects start-up Disaitek
The objective of this collaboration is to detect and characterise illegal dumping using Artificial Intelligence applied to 30cm resolution Pléiades Neo images.
09.07.2024
Following the First Call for Innovation launched in February 2024, the CNES and Airbus have selected the French start-up Disaitek to join the Pléiades Neo Applications Campus with their project “Detection and characterisation of wild dumps and illegal dumps by satellite THR and Artificial Intelligence”.
The tripartite agreement was signed on May 27, 2024, marking the start of this six month collaboration. Disaitek will receive access to a set of Pléiades Neo images as well as support from the CNES and Airbus to facilitate the economic development and deployment of the project.
Disaitek provides a detection system, based on Pléiades Neo imagery, to identify environmental damage caused by abandoned waste and illegal landfills. Ministries, local authorities and environmental operators will receive geo-localised information and support across all operational phases, from legal investigation to site decontamination.
Disaitek's Artificial Intelligence model for detecting wild and illegal dumping will evaluate the capabilities of Pléiades Neo 30cm to:
- Improve detection accuracy, thereby reducing training and technical service costs,
- Detect smaller discharges more quickly to better mitigate adverse environmental impacts,
- Refine the classification of illegal dumping and landfills using ground texture nuance
s, patterns and structures provided by Pléiades Neo.
Disaitek specialises in environmental protection, public health and climate change mitigation. Since 2017, the French start-up has been developing decision support tools using Artificial Intelligence processing data from Earth observation satellites.
