Automated Tasking

Feasibility study

Automatic acceptance parameters

The feasibility study is a process required to determine if the tasking request can be completed under the requested parameters, including: cloud coverage, incidence angle and the time frame for collection. The final step of this process includes a tasking proposal from the Airbus Tasking team as well as a validation to launch the process. The following parameters will guarantee that the feasibility study is not mandatory and the tasking will automatically be accepted:

• maxCloudCover >= 10

• maxIncidenceAngle >= 20

• acquisitionMode = MONO

• For SPOT and Pléiades, feasibility study endpoints work only with ONEPLAN

• ONEPLAN requires the timespan to be at least 30 days for automatic tasking and at least 60 days for EASY classification.

• ONEDAY and ONENOW ATTEMPTS depend on the satellite orbit but have no timeline requirement

• ONENOWWEATHER requires the timespan to be at least 3 days for automatic tasking

AOI constraints for automatic acceptance

For OneDay and OneNow

For OnePlan

Workarounds

If you send a request to the check feasibility endpoint (see Step 3: Check Feasibility) and the response defines your order automation as MANUAL, you can change the parameters to be less challenging. If the parameters are good enough, your tasking can be automatically accepted and you may skip this step.

For Pléiades Neo tasking requests , the best option to avoid human validation is to request a quotation. If the feasibility study cannot be validated through an API, a quotation, on the other hand, can be fully handled with an automated process. Since the quotation includes the feasibility study step, you can request a quotation for tasking (Step 6: Request a quotation), then either accept or refuse the quotation once it’s available. As a reminder, once the quotation is accepted, the order is passed automatically (Manage quotations).

Accept proposed acquisition

Pléiades and SPOT are working at segment level while Pléiades Neo is acquiring smaller targeted locations. at coverage item (1 target is by default a scene equivalent). The process is the same for Pléiades Neo as well as Pléiades and SPOT but the endpoints slightly differ. As a reminder, acquisitions require your validation if they do not fill the required conditions for direct production but fit into the threshold value you have set during the order. First, you need to check if acquisitions requiring your attention are available (generally new acquisitions), then you store its reference and decide to accept or reject it.
For Pléiades and SPOT:

• Manage acquisitions

• Accept or refuse acquisitions

For Pléiades Neo:

• Manage acquisitions

• Accept or refuse acquisitions

Product delivery Notifications

Once your tasking request is complete and your product is delivered, you may want to be notified without checking your email. In that case, you can use an automatic workflow to send a periodic request to the opensearch endpoint to check if your product is available. In order to reach maximum efficiency, you can use your customer reference to understand if your order has been delivered.