Roland Garros Stadium, known locally as Stade Roland Garros, is a complex of tennis courts located in Paris, France that hosts the French Open. The complex is named after Roland Garros (1888–1918), a French pilot who completed the first solo flight across the Mediterranean Sea and invented the first forward-firing aircraft machine gun. In World War I, he shot down four enemy aircraft but was killed in aerial combat in October 1918. The stadium was built in 1928 to host France’s first defense of the Davis Cup. The 34-acre complex includes 20 courts, including three large-capacity stadiums; Les Jardins de Roland Garros, a large restaurant and bar complex; Le Village, the press and VIP area; France’s National Training Centre (CNE); and the Tenniseum, a bilingual, multimedia museum of the history of tennis. It also has a retractable roof with a revolutionary design for Philippe-Chatrier court. For the Paris 2024 Games, Roland Garros hosted not only the tennis and wheelchair tennis competitions, but also boxing and sitting volleyball. The stadium regularly gives tours to visitors. The 30-cm WorldView-3 image of Roland Garros Stadium was captured on August 4, 2024 at 1:06 pm when the Men’s Final and Women’s Doubles Final were being played there. Also spied in the southeast quadrant of the image is Deutches Haus, a meeting place for German Athletes during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the Stade Jean Bouin. The stadium opened in 1925 and is named after the athlete Jean Bouin, the 5,000-meter silver medalist from the 1912 Olympics. The top 14 rugby union side plays its home games at the 19,904-seater stadium which was also the venue for the France Sevens leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series in 2005, 2006, and from 2017 to 2020. It also hosted the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Gay Games. (Satellite Imagery © 2024 Maxar Technologies)Every time we look at WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 (WV3/4) imagery, we are blown away. And we hope you are equally impressed with the data! In September, we marveled over images of Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise at Banff National Park in Canada. For this edition of the 30-cm Color WorldView-3/4 Image of the Month, we examine images of Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, France collected during the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics!
WorldView-3 launched in late 2014 and WorldView-4 launched in late 2016; taken together they are the most advanced satellite constellation the commercial marketplace has ever had access to. Here are a few of the features that really set these satellites apart from the competition:
- Improved Resolution
- Higher resolution means you can see more detail in WV3/4 imagery.
- Data collected at nadir will have 31-centimeter (cm) panchromatic, 1.24-meter (m) visible and near infrared, 3.7-m SWIR (WV3 only) and 30-m CAVIS (WV3 only) bands.
- At 20 degrees off-nadir, the resolution is 34-cm panchromatic, 1.38-m visible and near infrared and 4.1-m shortwave infrared.
- Additional Spectral Bands
- If spectral analysis is part of your project, then no other satellite can match WV3 with its: 8 bands of visible and near-infrared data; and 8 shortwave infrared bands which are crucial for geological studies.
- Better Positional Accuracy
- With accuracies of 3.5-m CE90% or better (without ground control even!), WV3/4 has no rivals for its enhanced positional accuracy.
- Daily Revisits
- At 40 degrees latitude, WV3 is able to image every location daily with 1-meter or better resolution and then every 4.5 days at 34-cm resolution or better.
- WV4 is no longer collecting new imagery.
- Increased Collection Capacity
- WV3/4 feature 13.1-km swath widths (at nadir) with the ability to collect up to 680,000 square kilometer (sq km) of high-resolution data per day per satellite (though WV4 is dead now).
- Improved control movement gyros translate into larger maximum contiguous collection areas per pass, with up to ~7,500 sq km of mono imagery and ~3,000 sq km of stereo possible.
If you are interested in WorldView-3 and/or WorldView-4 imagery for your next project, please let us know by phone, 303-993-3863, or by email, sales@apollomapping.com.
You can also find more WV3 samples and technical information on our website here and then WV4 samples and information can be found here.
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