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Quickbird

(Image Courtesy of DigitalGlobe)

What is QuickBird?

The QuickBird satellite is the first in a constellation of spacecraft that DigitalGlobe is developing that offers highly accurate, commercial high resolution imagery of Earth. QuickBird’s global collection of panchromatic and multispectral imagery is designed to support applications ranging from map publishing to land and asset management to insurance risk assessment.

QuickBird is a high-resolution commercial earth observation satellite, owned by Digital Globe which was launched in 2001. QuickBird boasts the largest image size and the greatest on-board storage capacity of any satellite. The satellite collects panchromatic (black & white) imagery at 60 centimeter resolution and multispectral imagery at 2.4- meter resolution. Click here to view a comparison between Quickbird and Google Earth imagery.

Features	Benefits
Highest resolution sensors available commercially 61 cm (2 ft) panchromatic at nadir 2.4 m (8 ft) multispectral at nadir	Acquire high-quality satellite imagery for map creation, change detection, and image analysis
Industry-leading image accuracy Stable platform for precise location measurement 3-axis stabilized, star tracker/IRU/reaction wheels, C/A Code GPS	Geolocate features to within 23 meters (75.5 feet) and create maps in remote areas without the use of ground control points
Fastest large area collection 16.5 km width imaging swath 128 Gbits on-board image storage capacity	Collect a greater supply of frequently updated global imagery products more quickly than competitive systems
High image quality Off-axis unobscured design of QuickBird's telescope Large field-of-view High contrast (MTF) High signal to noise ratio 11 bit dynamic range	Extend the range of suitable imaging collection targets and enhance image interpretability because images can be acquired at even the lowest light levels without sacrificing image quality

(http://www.digitalglobe.com/index.php/85/QuickBird)

QuickBird features:

Source data			DigitalGlobe
Resolution			60cm (Pan) 2.4m (Multispectral)
Spectral mode			Natural colour (4 bands) + Black and White (Panchromatic Band)
Location accuracy			23 meter circular error, 17 meter linear error (without ground control)
Processing levels			Basic (radiometrically corrected and sensor corrected, but not geometrically corrected nor mapped to a cartographic projection and ellipsoid) Standard (radiometrically corrected, sensor corrected, geometrically corrected, and mapped to a cartographic projection) Orthorectified (radiometrically corrected, sensor corrected, geometrically corrected, orthorectified, and mapped to a cartographic projection and datum)
Projection*			Projections: Lat/Long, UTM (default) Datums: GDA94, WGS84, GRS80, NAD27, NAD83
Format*			Geo TIFF
Product framing			Shapefile to mach your area of interest

*For other formats or projections such as MGA94, ECW and JPEG2000 contact us

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