WorldView


WorldView - a series of satellites capable of taking satellite images of high-resolution Earth's surface. Their owner is DigitalGlobe. So far, three satellites have been launched.

WorldView-1 A separate article: WorldView-1.

Date of launch of the satellite: September 18, 2007.

The satellite implements 50 cm resolution images in a superhero (55 cm at 20 ° to nadir) for panchromatic images. It is highly stable, has high altimeters and GPS receivers. The scan strip width is 17.6 km. The radiometric resolution is 11 bits. Time resolution is 1.7 days for images with a resolution of 1 meter, for the highest resolution (51 cm) this time increases to 5.4 days. The orbital height is 496 km (heliosynchronous). WorldView-2

Date of launch of the satellite: October 8, 2009.

The satellite implements 46 cm resolution images in the nadir (52 cm at 20 ° to the nadir). It is highly stable, has high altimeters and GPS receivers. The scan width is 16.4 km. The radiometric resolution is 11 bits. Time resolution is 1.1 days for images with a resolution of 1 meter, for the highest resolution (52 cm) this time increases to 3.7 days. The orbital height is 770 km (heliosynchronous). WorldView-3

Date of launch of the satellite: August 13, 2014.

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