Vina del Mar means Vineyard of the Sea and sits along central Chile‘s Pacific coast. Located within the Valparaíso Region, it is Chile’s fourth largest city. Visitors and locals enjoy the parks and water fountains of the city, including a large flower clock (Reloj de Flores) with its numbers made up of flowering plants. Reloj de Flores is close to Caleta Abarca beach. The Valparaiso Sporting Club horse racing track is another major landmark. Jardín Botánico or Parque del Salitre, a large botanical garden on the outskirts of the city, was originally designed and built by an entrepreneur who became wealthy from exploiting saltpeter resources in northern Chile. A few buildings from the 19th Century still remain after multiple earthquakes which destroyed most of the old areas of the city. The majority of these older buildings that remain are located along Avenida Libertad (Liberty Avenue), Quillota Street and Quinta Vergara, a large park in the middle of the city. The city’s casino was designed in art deco style and is surrounded by well-tended gardens (hence the city’s nickname). In 2004, a hotel (Hotel del Mar) was added to the building, resembling the architectural features of the original building. Palacio Rioja, a mansion built by Fernando Rioja in 1907 houses an environmental museum. The Fonck Museum, located in Cuatro Norte Street, has a large exhibition of pre-Columbian articles and a large moai (Easter Island statue made of volcanic rock), the only one in mainland Chile. According to travel writer George Kashouh, Vina del Mar is the most exotic beach city he’s been to in South America. He said, “I was in a city that was a melting pot of culture from both Americas and was topped off with European culture.” The 30-cm WorldView Legion image featured here was collected on December 8, 2024, and has custom processing and color balance applied by Apollo Mapping. The first image features Estadio Sausalito, home the soccer club CD Everton, while the other two images are views of downtown Vina del Mar. (Satellite Imagery © 2025 Maxar Technologies)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 February, we checked out images of Seoul, South Korea. For this edition of the 30-cm Color WorldView Image of the Month, we feature images of Vina del Mar in Chile.
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.
If you are interested in WorldView-3, WorldView-4 and/or WorldView Legion 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; WV4 samples and information can be found here; and then finally here is more information about WorldView Legion.
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