WorldView-2 Launch Date Announced
June 30 2009 - 4:42PM
Business Wire
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services,
today announced that its WorldView-2 high-resolution 8-band
multi-spectral satellite is scheduled to launch on October 6th,
2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The planned launch of WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe�s second
next-generation class high-resolution satellite, is expected to
nearly double DigitalGlobe's collection capabilities to
approximately two million square kilometers per day, enable
intra-day revisits to specific geographic areas, and enhance the
company's ability to collect up-to-date imagery in those areas of
greatest interest to its customers.
The additional capacity and more frequent revisit rate are
expected to provide DigitalGlobe�s customers with up-to-date and
comprehensive high-resolution satellite imagery products and
services. The planned launch of WorldView-2 will make DigitalGlobe
the only commercial earth imagery provider with 8-band
multi-spectral capability, which has a more robust color palette
and enables enhanced analysis of the earth�s surface. The
additional multi-spectral band capability of WorldView-2 is
expected to enable higher levels of feature identification and
extraction, and more accurately reflect the world�s natural color
with the potential to benefit many applications, including
environmental monitoring, change detection, and defense and
intelligence.
Upon launch, WorldView-2 will join DigitalGlobe�s two other
high-resolution satellites in orbit, QuickBird and WorldView-1.
WorldView-2 is expected to be able to collect imagery at 0.46 meter
resolution. Due to NOAA operating license restrictions, all imagery
will be re-sampled to 0.50 meter resolution unless the U.S.
Government has granted a customer-specific waiver of the
restriction.
DigitalGlobe expects images and products from WorldView-2 to be
available approximately 90 days following a successful launch.
Learn more about WorldView-2 and its expected technical
capabilities by visiting http://worldview2.digitalglobe.com/.
About DigitalGlobe
Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe
(http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services.
Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery
solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and
intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental
monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management as
well as internet portals and navigation technology.
With our collection sources, comprehensive ImageLibrary
(containing more than 660 million square kilometers of earth
imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line
products and services designed to enable customers to easily access
and integrate our imagery into their business operations and
applications.
DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.
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