Twenty-eight intriguing art installations are scattered across the 990-acre Gibbs Farm, a North Auckland property nestled near Kaipara Harbor, which is the largest harbor in the southern hemisphere. As the largest collection of large-scale outdoor sculptures in New Zealand, the private art collection belongs to businessman Alan Gibb, but it is open to the public on certain days throughout the year. He bought the land in 1991, and in addition to the artwork, it includes several exotic animals such as emus and giraffes, a garage where visitors can glimpse the Gibbs Aquada through the window, and a full-scale wild west town complete with a saloon that’s found in the installation called Grief. After nearly 20 years of building the art collection, Gibbs Farm includes major works by Graham Bennett, Chris Booth, Daniel Buren, Bill Culbert, Neil Dawson, Marijke de Goey, Andy Goldsworthy, Ralph Hotere, Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt, Len Lye, Russell Moses, Peter Nicholls, Eric Orr, Tony Oursler, George Rickey, Peter Roche, Richard Serra, Kenneth Snelson, Richard Thompson, Leon van den Eijkel and Zhan Wang. Most works in the collection are commissioned specifically for Gibbs Farm. Gibbs’ architect son-in-law, Noel Lane, now cares for the property with Gibbs’ daughter, Amanda. The sculpture Electrum, by Eric Orr, is the world’s largest Tesla coil (11.6 meters or 38 feet tall) and numerous artworks are large enough to be seen from high-resolution satellite imagery. In the image featured here, we can see the sprawling green grass of the farm dotted with colorful outlines of the 28 art installations varying in height and width. This 30-cm WorldView Legion image was collected on May 3, 2025, and has custom processing and color balance applied by Apollo Mapping. (Satellite Imagery © 2025 Vantor)In this monthly article, we travel the world to check out unique, fun and sometimes a bit weird 30-centimeter (cm) color imagery samples from the WorldView constellation. In November, we looked at Shandur Polo Field in Pakistan. For this edition of the 30-cm Color WorldView Image of the Month, we feature an image of Gibbs Farm in Makarau, New Zealand.
30-cm WorldView-3 (WV3) launched in late 2014, WorldView-4 (WV4) launched in late 2016 and then the first WorldView Legion satellites launched in 2024. Taken together, this is 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 WorldView 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.
- Additional Spectral Bands
- If spectral analysis is part of your project, then no other satellite can match WorldView-3 and WorldView Legion with their 8 bands of visible and near-infrared data; and then 8 shortwave infrared bands (WV3 only) which are crucial for geological studies.
- Better Positional Accuracy
- With accuracies of 3.5-m CE90% or better (without ground control even!), the 30-cm WorldView constellation has no rivals for its enhanced positional accuracy.
- Daily Revisits
- With multiple WorldView-3 and WorldView Legion satellites orbiting our planet, daily revisits are available for most locations.
- 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 kilometers (sq km) of high-resolution data per day per satellite (though WV4 is dead now).
- When fully launched, WorldView Legion will feature six 30-cm satellites, significantly boosting the collection capacity of this leading high-resolution constellation.
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You can also find more WV3 samples and technical information on our website here; WV4 samples and information can be found here; and then finally here is more information about WorldView Legion.
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