CS has been a recognised player in space and defence for 20 years. Our teams have acquired and optimised high-level skills in imaging and the wider field of Earth Observation through their long collaboration with our customers in the European and international space sector. As a result, CS is now one of the best known IT service companies in the field. Our ambitious Research and Development (R&D) policy is focused on our customers' major goals regarding instruments, algorithms, technologies and operational aspects.
By combining its competencies in these various areas of excellence, CS is able to meet its customers' challenges, which today notably include geospatial intelligence.

As a leading provider of geographic data and satellite image processing tools in Europe, CS caters to the needs expressed by industrial companies and institutional decision-makers as they achieve growth alongside the increasing potential offered by multiple space missions. These needs are met by integrating the information obtained by space-based observation, telecommunications, collecting and locating technologies enriched with terrain studies and meteorological data into a single system.

Such information systems are now indispensable in order to prepare precise situation reports and inventories and to maintain rigorous periodic checks on changes as they occur.

By covering the entire process from sensors to applications, CS provides optimal solutions to all its customers' problems, from engineering studies of future instruments to operational tools, including all the related algorithms and processing operations, while allowing for requirements regarding interoperability and operational performances.

For space applications, this "system-based" concept supported by the thematic models developed by CS engineers offers solutions to meet the challenges facing society in the third millennium: increasing agricultural production and the productivity of arable land, identifying soil types, drawing up inventories of water resources, managing natural hazards, and controlling urban and peri-urban dynamics, etc.

In this way, CS not only provides image processing services but designs and engineers complete decision-aid systems for political, social and economic purposes.



Consulting and studies
Engineering studies, consulting and assistance with client project management to help draw up specifications: technical assessments, upstream studies, preliminary analyses, definition of needs, functional analysis, prototyping, demonstrators.

Prime contractorship, development and integration
the organisation of implementation for large-scale project management, management of industrial and institutional subcontractors, risk-management based methodology.

System development and integration
Flat-fee contract work, supply of critical turnkey systems and off-the-shelf solutions.

Training, assistance and maintenance
Assistance for customers during installation phases, technical support, training, assistance during changes and the maintenance of operating conditions.

Operations, production
Geographic applications around a permanent team of experts, all qualified in earth observation techniques - Setting up of operating teams for data processing – Studies, consulting, prime contractorship for application projects – Creation of information products - Assistance with client project management.

Observation ground segments

Image quality systems, geometric and radiometric corrections.
Creation of level 1 to 3 products.
Atmospheric correction chains.
·P+XS SPOT/Pleiades/FORMOSAT (CNES/SPOTIMAGE)
·ESPRISAR: definition study of SAR simulation tool – GMTI, UWB, bistatism

(DGA/CELAR)
·GEQI: Helios II image quality (CNES)
·ANDORRE: Image orthorectification tool, SPOT5 (SPOTIMAGE)
·ICC Pleiades: Image Calibration Centre (CNES)

Image analysis

All sensors (optical, SAR, IR, hyperspectral)/all vectors (satellite, aeroplane, RPV).
Extraction of information and primitives, shape recognition, segmentation, classification, DRI.
3D extraction.
Registration/merging/integration of data – allowance for in-situ, meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic data.
·OTB = ORFEO ToolBox: image analysis toolbox including geometric modelling of sensors (CNES)
·MEDICIS: image disparity measurement tool (CNES)
·PREDAC: prototype for automatic classification of vehicles at tolls (CS)
·Space data combination mockup (CLS)
·PROFIL: study of photo-interpreter training tool (DGA)

Geomatics

Design and creation of dedicated information systems
Geographic data and information management/Geographic information systems (rasters/vectors).

Creation and management of catalogues, archives and access portals.
-> Environment/Agriculture/Equipment and Town planning/Industrial equipment management.
·LUIS: Land-use information system for photo-interpretation of agricultural land (SPOTIMAGE)
·SMURFIT: integration of geography in the corporate IS, fleet follow-up and rounds management
·PINGOUIN: Distribution of statutory products (DGA)

PacDDAF: Creation, deployment, operation and maintenance of a new software package for the graphic declaration of agricultural areas for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (DDAF).

FarmGIS: Development of a software package for the alphanumeric and graphic input of farm plots with regard to the taking of subscriptions for the FARMSTAR project - Service providing assistance for the control of farm plots generated from satellite images. (Infoterra France)

MAGIS: Setting up of the PAC graphic declaration management system (Ministry of Agriculture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)

IACS-TURKEY: Setting up of an integrated administration and control system for agricultural areas (IACS) complying with European legislation (MARA - Turkish Ministry of Agriculture)

SIERM: Development of the Rhine-Meuse water information system (SIERM), tool for the dissemination over the Internet of data on water produced in the Rhine-Meuse basin (Agence de l'Eau Rhin-Meuse, the Rhine Meuse water authority)


Risk management

IS definition, design and development for the management of major risks: before, during and after.
·Flood risk management tool (data acquisition, flow models, drawing up of risk maps).
·PAREFEU: forest fire management and follow-up prototype (airborne acquisition, fire development monitoring, integration in a GIS) (RTE)
·PRESENSE: subsidence detection prototype based on airborne SAR images –differential interferometry (EU)
ESPADA(Estimation et Suivi de Pluies en Agglomération pour Devancer l'Alerte): a crisis early warning system for the assessment and follow-up of urban rainfall to forecast alert situations based on hydrometeorological monitoring and the setting up of a prior organisation with suitable equipment.

References

 

In France

CAP inspection: Carrying out of remote-detection aided inspection campaigns related to compensatory payments to farmers prescribed by the CAP (via a single payment agency, Agence Unique de Paiement)

LUCAS: Statistical areal sample survey aimed at obtaining harmonised data for the EU regarding land use and the environment (EUROSTAT)

CorineLandCover: Production of a harmonised database of land use covering all countries in the European Union (Institut Français de l'Environnement)

AESN: Construction of the hydrogeomorphological database required to characterise the functionality of river corridors in the Seine-Normandy basin (Agence de l'Eau Seine Normandie)

DIREN: Creation of morphological maps of the Loire, Allier and Vienne river beds (Direction Régionale de l'Environnement Centre)


Worldwide

AQUIFER: Applications concerning the management and monitoring of water resources in Africa on the basis on satellite data sources, particularly the ERS and Envisat satellites, (European Space Agency).

GEOFORMA: Support for the promotion and development of geoscientific mapping in Morocco (Moroccan Ministry of Energy and Mining, Geology Department).

SRAT: Preparation of a national territorial development plan for 2025 - Analysis of the following topics: town planning and housing, natural and industrial risks (Algerian Ministry for Regional Development and the Environment).

SCKPFP: Development of suitable techniques for optimal control of production forest in Kalimantan (Indonesia Ministry of Forestry).

CARTO-TUNISIE: Production of regional agricultural maps of Tunisia and analysis of regional natural, physical and social-economic characteristics (Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture).