Resolution
WorldView-3's 31cm resolution, makes it the highest resolution commercial satellite in the world.
Take a first look at the newest addition to the most capable commercial imaging satellite constellation in the world and see how DigitalGlobe’s commitment to providing users with an unprecedented level of ability and opportunity has led to its development. Explore the content below, and take a closer look at WorldView-3.
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WorldView-3's 31cm resolution, makes it the highest resolution commercial satellite in the world.
Resolution matters. You cannot create data from nothing and the laws of physics cannot be conquered via software enhancements. These indisputable facts are why DigitalGlobe and its customers place such high value on the ability to see the world in the clearest, most detailed way yet. What kinds of features can you make out at different resolutions?
Short-Wave Infrared bands add spectral coverage to the invisible range.
By focusing on specific bands that pass easily through substances such as CO2 and water vapor, we’re able to detect objects on the other side of them, rendering these obstructions invisible.
The CAVIS instrument brings an unprecedented level of consistency in data, paving the way to standardization of satellite imagery.
CAVIS (which stands for Clouds, Aerosols, Water Vapor, Ice and Snow) corrects for the inconsistencies caused by certain conditions, offering standardized imagery no matter where or when the data was captured. This standardization will introduce a new age in automated information extraction and change detection.
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The agricultural community stands to benefit greatly from WorldView-3's enhancements. The atmospherically compensated imagery, coupled with 16 spectral bands, allows for accurate crop pattern/type mapping.
Farmers, forestry organizations, and environmental regulators have a diverse set of challenges when it comes to managing land parcels and analyzing, assessing, and monitoring the health and growth states of plant materials.
Our high-resolution multispectral imagery provides organizations with very detailed information about what is happening on the ground across a wide geographical region. Optimize plant health, monitor the encroachment of invasive species, and identify crops affected by disease or drought with DigitalGlobe.
When dealing with parcels of land spread out across large areas of interest, it can be challenging to accurately survey and monitor what is happening, and exactly where.
DigitalGlobe plays an important role in both small scale mapping efforts, as well as large scale cadastral projects. Monitor wide scale change over time, and optimize the efficiency of your operations.
Many factors impact the extent and severity of crises on the ground, including the growing trend of urban encroachment into natural areas. Organizations need rapid operational awareness in order to make decisions that impact time, resources, and lives.
With a combination of high-resolution color and multispectral imagery, you can quickly and accurately map damage areas impacted by natural and man-made disasters, helping you organize response efforts while keeping one step ahead of the news cycle.
The energy industry requires efficient site selection, exploration, and environmental monitoring. Our new advanced spectral capabilities are ideally suited to respond to these challenges.
Energy companies face great challenges when it comes to resource exploration. Surveying remote regions and optimizing existing production in already-discovered fields can be cost prohibitive and time consuming.
DigitalGlobe allows you to remotely analyze high-resolution maps before seismic surveying in order to build accurate surface models and avoid poorly-suited areas. Reach wider geographies in remote regions and expand multi-well pad designs using our dedicated solutions.
Well planning, pipeline planning, siting, environmental impact analysis, and refinery design are all resource-intensive tasks that take tremendous amounts of time and coordination.
For ongoing operational tasks, our satellite imagery solutions are ideal for fast, informed analysis. Our industry-leading levels of resolution and accuracy enable you to make sound operating decisions using the highest quality data available.
Accidents can happen and when they do, those in the energy industry are under tremendous pressure to deliver information to key stakeholders while optimizing the on-the-ground response process.
When fast answers are required, DigitalGlobe can rapidly provide before-and-after incident imagery, and even crowdsourced damage assessments, helping you get a firm grip of what has happened and where, while staying steps ahead of the news cycle.
With the growth in our spectral capabilities, mining organizations can benefit by leveraging unique mineral identification and chemical measurements. WorldView-3 cuts costs and increases efficiency in site exploration and monitoring.
There are many key challenges in mineral exploration, particularly in the face of exponential demand and the depletion of easily available resources. Current methodology uses insufficient tools, making it extremely expensive to explore large areas – especially with challenging situations on the ground.
The DigitalGlobe constellation, with the addition of WorldView-3, enables mining customers to detect multiple minerals with low false positives. This helps save time, resources, and even lives through increased efficiency and more cost-effective exploration.
Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) provide detailed information on the pre and post mining environment. Lack of accurate estimates of environmental impact in the mining industry represent a major challenge to mining organizations, with significant environmental, socio-economic, and cultural consequences.
DigitalGlobe enables accurate prediction and identification of damage by species, delivered through finely tuned super-spectral imagery. This increases organizational readiness, saves time and resources, and allows companies to stay ahead of environmental challenges.
Detailed information about global operations allow mining companies to better understand mine productivity, effectively manage the mine lifecycle, assess true costs of management, and better understand the competitive landscape. Lack of accurate, timely information can have real economic consequences.
With DigitalGlobe, you can avoid risky, expensive, and time consuming field surveys. Generate volumetrics with improved measurement accuracy and leverage elevation models with up to 40% better spatial resolution.
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Disclaimer and data information.
To simulate new spatial and spectral capabilities that will be enabled by the WorldView-3 (WV-3) satellite following a successful launch and calibration, we have processed a series of surrogate data sets from a variety of sources. Because of the lack of satellite-based imaging sensors of suitable spatial and spectral resolution, airborne platforms were used. These data were resampled both spatially and spectrally, using engineering knowledge of the WV-3 sensor characteristics, in order to create simulations of WV-3 data. These simulations are notional and represent our best efforts to demonstrate a future capability that does not yet exist.
The provided data is a simulated WorldView-3 "SuperCube" - a 16 band product composed of the eight WorldView-3 VNIR bands and the eight WorldView-3 SWIR bands. The combined 16 bands are provided in a single TIFF file at the native VNIR spatial resolution of 1.2 meters. In order to simplify the presentation of the combined sensor bands, the SWIR bands are upsampled (using nearest neighbor) to 1.2 meters spatial resolution from their native resolution of 3.7 meters.
Two images are provided, derived from imagery collected by aerial platforms and sensors. These data consist of:
No claim is made for the accuracy of any of the simulations.
The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed under cooperative agreement by NEON, Inc. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DBI-0752017.
Provo Airport, Utah, USA (1.24m Supercube)
Tollhouse proximity, California, USA (1.24m Supercube)
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