WorldView-4 Satellite Imagery Samples
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Shanghai, China; November 1, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; November 4, 2018
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Capetown, South Africa; May 4, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Istanbul, Turkey; June 30, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Santiago, Chile; April 13, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Kumasi, Ghana; January 14, 2018
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Kumasi, Ghana; January 14, 2018
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Capetown, South Africa; May 4, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Paris, France; October 15, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Paris, France; October 15, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - New York City, New York, USA; April 18, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - New York City, New York, USA; April 18, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - New York City, New York, USA; April 18, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - New York City, New York, USA; April 18, 2017
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WorldView-4 49-cm Natural Color - Torre Glòries (formerly Torre Agbar), Barcelona, Spain (high off-nadir); March 29, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - New York City, New York, USA; April 18, 2017
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WorldView-4 42-cm Natural Color - Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan (high off-nadir); May 18, 2017
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WorldView-4 52-cm Natural Color - Copenhagen, Denmark (high off-nadir); March 25, 2017
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WorldView-4 30-cm Natural Color - Kiritimati, Republic of Kiribati; October 1, 2018
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The WorldView-4 Advantage
Highest Resolution Ever
With 31-cm resolution, WorldView-4 provided a level of clarity and detail only rivaled by 31-cm WorldView-3.
A Twin in Space
WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 both offer(ed) 31-cm resolution making them the perfect tandem for the highest resolution data possible over your area of interest.
Huge Collection Capacity
Matching the capacity of WorldView-3, this satellite tandem collected more than 480 million sq km each year, or about three times the area of the entire world’s land mass.
Overview & HistoryWorldView-4 SpecificationsPricing
After two years in space alone, WorldView-4 joined its high-resolution satellite twin, WorldView-3, as the only 31-centimeter (cm) optical sensors in orbit. Also launched by Maxar Technologies from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, WorldView-4 reached orbit on November 11, 2016 offering 31-cm panchromatic and 1.24-meter (m) four band (i.e. blue, green, red and near-infrared) multispectral. As WorldView-4 started its life as GeoEye-2, it is not identical to WorldView-3 but was significantly upgraded to match its twin as close as possible.
If your project demands the world’s highest resolution satellite imagery, then the tandem of WordlView-3 and WorldView-4 should be your next imagery choice!
As of early 2019, WorldView-4 is in non-recoverable status and no longer collecting new imagery.
Launch Details
- Launch Date: November 11, 2016, 18:30 UTC (formerly known as GeoEye-2, but significantly overhauled before launch)
- Vehicle: United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 booster
- Site: SLC-3, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA/li>
- Mission Life: 2016 to about 2019
WorldView-4 Components
- Dimensions: 5.3-m tall x 2.5-m across; 7.9-m across with deployed solar array; 5,214 kg (final wet mass launch weight)
- Power System: 5 deployable fixed arrays; 1.17-m x 2.01-m Gallium-Arsenide solar cells supplying regulated 28 volts at 3.75 kW; 312 Ahr Li-Ion batteries
- Control Systems:
- 3-axis stabilized
- Actuators – control movement gyros (CMGs)
- Altitude determination – star trackers, precision solid state inertial reference unit (IRU) and GPS
- Onboard Storage Capacity: 3,200 gigabytes (GB) solid state drive with EDAC
- Ground Communication Systems:
- Imagery & metadata downlink – 800 Mbps X-band
- Maintenance – 120 kilobytes per second (kbps) real time, X-band
- Commands – 64 kbps, S-band
- Optical Sensor Assembly: 16.05-m focal length, 1.1-m aperture
Orbit Characteristics
- Altitude: 617 km
- Period: 97 minutes
- Inclination: 97.96°
- 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)
Imaging System
- Spectral Bands:
- Panchromatic
- 4-band multispectral (blue, green, red, and near-infrared [NIR])
- Sensor Resolution:
- At nadir – 31-cm panchromatic & 1.24-m multispectral
- 20° off-nadir – 34-cm panchromatic & 1.38-m multispectral
- 30° off-nadir – 40-cm panchromatic & 1.6-m multispectral
- 56° off-nadir – 1-m panchromatic & 4-m multispectral
- Panchromatic and Multispectral Bands Wavelength Range: (in nm)
- Panchromatic – 450 to 800
- Blue – 450 to 510
- Green – 510 to 580
- Red – 655 to 690
- NIR – 780 to 920
- Dynamic Range: 11-bits
Collection Capabilities
- Footprint Width: 13.1 km (at nadir)
- Single Pass Maximum Collection Geometry: (at 30° off-nadir)
- Mono – 66.5 km x 112 km (5 strip wide)
- Stereo – 26.6 km x 112 km (2 pairs wide)
- Retargeting Ability: 10.6 sec (time to slew 200 km)
- Daily Collection Capacity: 680,000 sq km
- Georeferenced Horizontal Accuracy: < 5-m CE90 (global average, dependent on terrain and nadir pointing)
Below is the least expensive WorldView-4 data offered. Prices increase for higher resolution, 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: 30-cm georeferenced + natural color or 4-band (50-cm is offered at a discounted rate)
- Price Per Sq Km: $22.50 (more detailed pricing can be found here)
For an exact quote, please contact our Sales Team at sales@apollomapping.com.
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