DigitalGlobe annouced the first images from WorldView-2, the company’s most recent high-resolution remote-sensing satellite. Initial images, issued after 11 days on orbit, captured Love Field Airport near Dallas and the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. More refinements to early-stage images can be expected as the ongoing check-out and calibration continues.
WorldView-2 was successfully launched on October 8, 2009 and is currently completing its routine calibration and check-out period. DigitalGlobe expects the satellite to be operational and delivering commercially available imagery products and services approximately 90 days from the launch date.
The launch of WorldView-2 marked another first for DigitalGlobe and the industry as the first high-resolution, eight-band, multispectral commercial satellite. WorldView-2 is expected to improve the speed and rate of imagery delivery to the government and commercial markets with large-scale collection capacity and daily revisit rates. WorldView-2 joined DigitalGlobe’s existing sub-meter satellites on orbit, QuickBird and WorldView-1, to enable an annual imaging capacity equivalent to three times the earth’s land mass.
O lançamento do WorldView-2 foi outro marco para a DigitalGlobe e a indústria como o primeiro satélite de alta resolução, eight-band e satélite comercial multispectral. O WorldView-2
WorldView-2 collects multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution and panchromatic imagery at 0.46 meters. The additional multispectral band capability supports improved levels of feature identification and extraction and more accurately reflects the world’s natural color.
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