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The WorldView-1 satellite is the most agile commercial satellite ever flown.
The high-capacity, panchromatic imaging system features half-meter resolution imagery.
The satellite is also equipped with state-of-the-art geolocation accuracy capabilities and exhibits stunning agility with rapid pointing and efficient in-track stereo collection.

WorldView-1 is designed to efficiently and accurately image large areas with industry leading geolocation accuracy. The WorldView-1 spacecraft is capable of collecting up to 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles) of imagery per day.

Technical specifications on the Worldview-1 satellite
Launch September 18, 2007
Orbit 496 km altitude
sun-synchronous,
94.6 minutes
Nominal swath width 17.6 Km at nadir
On-board storage 2,200 Gbit
Dynamic Range 11 bits per pixel
Resolution Panchromatic
0.5 meters at nadir,
0.55 meters at 20º off-nadir
Spectral Bandwidth 400—900 nanometers
Accuracy CE90% 6.5m
Average revisit 5 days
Single-Pass
Monoscopic Area Coverage
1 area of 60 x 110 Km
Single-Pass
Stereoscopic Area Coverage
1 area of 30 x 110 Km
Geolocation Accuracy (CE90) Geolocation Accuracy specification
of 6.5m CE90% at nadir,
with actual accuracy in the range of 4.0 – 5.5m
CE90%, excluding terrain
and off-nadir effects

WorldView-1 Imagery Products are available in the following file formats:

  • GeoTIFF 1.0
  • NITF 2.0
  • NITF 2.1

WorldView-1, with its superior increase in capability and capacity and QuickBird another high-resolution satellite, together operate as the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite constellation. The two satellites are collecting up to 900,000 square kilometers of new imagery per day. This will enable faster turn-around on collection and rapid updating of image libraries.

Please contact Global Ore Discovery for more details and prices


       


Image Processing

One metre Worldview on 60cm Quickbird base imagery


 
   
                 

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