Press Conference

Thursday 8 October 2020

Contents

  1. Defence challenges
  2. Earthcube - Airbus partnership
  3. The Defence Site Monitoring solution
  4. Questions and Answers

Defence challenges

Continued investment in aerospace…

"In the last 10 years, the aerospace landscape has changed, growing from 30 to 85 billion dollars of investment, the private sector represents 50%, military investments have doubled"

General Michel Friedling,

Le Figaro, 11/09/2020

…heavily focused on sensors.

"95% of our investments are dedicated to sensors and only 5% on analysing the data gathered by these sensors"

General Ferlet, Head of Military Intelligence,

GeoInt seminar at La Sorbonne, 29/09/2020

The main challenge

A lack of resources for analysing the growing quantity of data

Image data is analysed

manually by defence analysts

Only an infinitesimal part of the data gathered can be used effectively.

"We would need 6 million analysts in order to

measure all the data we receive"

R. Cardillo, Former Director of the National Geointelligence Agency, 2018

"The number of available images will increase thirty-fold by 2020. We cannot increase our human resources by the same amount"

General C. Gomart,

Former Head of Military Intelligence,

France, 2018

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