WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery Samples
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Buenos Aires, Argentina; January 22, 2013
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Madrid, Spain; February 7, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Dubai, UAE; May 1, 2012
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Burning Man, NV, USA; August 29, 2018
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - March For Our Lives, Washington DC, USA; March 24, 2018
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Busan, South Korea; March 8, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Beijing, China; September 14, 2012
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA; August 28, 2010
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WorldView-2 72-cm Natural Color - New York, New York (high off-nadir); October 10, 2010
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WorldView-2 72-cm Natural Color - New York, New York (high off-nadir); October 10, 2010
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WorldView-2 72-cm Natural Color - Statue of Liberty, New York, New York (high off-nadir); October 10, 2010
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California; November 3, 2012
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - The Vatican, Vatican City; December 28, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Washington, D.C.; June 8, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Rome, Italy; April 13, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Kigali, Rwanda; July 7, 2010
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Grand Bazaar; Istanbul, Turkey; May 8, 2012
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WorldView-2 1-m Natural Color - Brest Maritime Festival 2016, France (high off-nadir); July 17, 2016
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Singapore; November 19, 2010
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - 2014 Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany; September 24, 2014
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Copenhagen, Denmark; April 26, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Bogota, Colombia; January 21, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - The Pyramid of Giza, Egypt; December 24, 2009
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Valetta, Malta; June 10, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Waldpolenz Solar Park; March 22, 2011
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - The Bahamas; November 15, 2010
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt; December 24, 2009
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Blair Creek, British Columbia, Canada; September 20, 2012
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Central City, Pennsylvania; October 1, 2012
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Central City, Pennsylvania; October 1, 2012
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WorldView-2 50-cm Natural Color - Grand Erg Oriental Desert, Algeria; November 6, 2011
The WorldView-2 Advantage
WorldView-2 was the most technologically-advanced high-resolution satellite ever launched before it’s twin, WorldView-3, reached orbit. The Maxar Technologies satellite was launched into space on October 8, 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. WorldView-2 collects 46-centimeter (cm) panchromatic and 1.85-meter (m) multispectral imagery.
WorldView-2 features the first 8-band multispectral imaging system, adding a coastal, yellow, red edge and an additional near-infrared red (NIR) band to the traditional four (i.e. blue, green, red and NIR). Positioned 770 kilometers (km) above the planet, WorldView-2 collects up to 785,000 sq km of 8-band imagery every day. No wonder it’s our best seller!
- Launch Date: October 8, 2009, 18:51:00 GMT
- Vehicle: Delta 7920
- Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA
- Expected Mission Life: 2019 to 2021
- Dimensions: 5.7-m tall x 2.5-m across; 7.1-m across with deployed solar array; 2,615 kg
- Solar Array: 3.2 kW, 100 Ahr battery
- Control Systems:
- 3-axis stabilized
- Actuators – control movement gyros (CMGs)
- Altitude determination – star trackers, solid state inertial reference unit (IRU) and GPS
- Onboard Storage Capacity: 2199 gigabytes, solid state with EDAC
- Ground Communication Systems:
- Imagery & metadata downlink – 800 Mbits per second, X-band
- Maintenance – 4, 16 or 32 kilobytes per second (kbps) real time, 524 kbps stored, X-band
- Commands – 2 or 64 kbps, S-band
- Focal Plane:
- 50 staggered panchromatic detector sub-arrays (DSAs) – 35,420 pixels
- 10 staggered multispectral DSAs – 8,881 pixels / band; either side of panchromatic array (MS1 array: blue, green, red and NIR-1) (MS2 array: coastal, yellow, red edge, NIR-2)
- Optical Sensor Assembly: 13.3-m focal length, 1.1-m aperture
- Altitude: 770 km
- Period: 100.2 minutes
- Inclination: 98.0°
- Direction: sun-synchronous circular, north to south (across the lit side of Earth)
- Equatorial Crossing Time: 10:30 AM local time (approximate; across lit side of Earth)
- Revisit Frequency: (at 40° lat)
- 1.1 days (< 45° off-nadir)
- 3.7 days (< 20° off-nadir)
- Spectral Bands:
- Panchromatic
- 8-band multispectral (coastal, blue, green, yellow, red, red edge, NIR-1 and NIR-2)
- Sensor Resolution:
- At nadir – 46-cm panchromatic & 1.85-m multispectral
- 20° off-nadir – 52-cm panchromatic & 2.07-m multispectral
- 30° off-nadir – 60-cm panchromatic & 2.40-m multispectral
- 45° off-nadir – 90-cm panchromatic & 3.58-m multispectral
- Spectral Band Wavelength Range: (minimum, center, maximum edge; in nm)
- Panchromatic – 447, 627, 808
- Coastal (MS Band 1) – 396, 427, 458
- Blue (MS Band 2) – 442, 478, 515
- Green (MS Band 3) – 506, 546, 586
- Yellow (MS Band 4) – 584, 608, 632
- Red (MS Band 5) – 624, 659, 694
- Red edge (MS Band 6) – 699, 724, 749
- NIR-1 (MS Band 7) – 765, 833, 901
- NIR-2 (MS Band 8) – 856, 949, 1043
- Dynamic Range: 11-bits
- Footprint Width: 16.4 km (at nadir)
- Collection Geometry: (at 30° off-nadir)
- Mono, large area – 138 km x 112 km (8 strips wide)
- Mono, long strip – 360 km x 16.4 km (1 strip only)
- Stereo, large area – 63 km x 112 km (4 pairs wide)
- Retargeting Ability: 10 sec (time to slew 200 km)
- Daily Collection Capacity: 1,200,000 sq km
- Georeferenced Horizontal Accuracy: < 3.5-m CE90 (global average, dependent on terrain)
Below is the least expensive, color WorldView-2 data offered. Prices increase for new collections, additional spectral bands and data processing. Note that academic and volume discounts are available.
- Data Source: archive (greater than 90 days old)
- Minimum Order Size: 25 sq km (per area & date)
- Product Type: georeferenced + natural color or 4-band
- Price Per Sq Km: $17.50 (more detailed pricing can be found here)
For an exact quote, please contact our Sales Team at sales@apollomapping.com.
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