DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base
August 27 2009 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for
commercial, defense, and intelligence clients, today announced that
the WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite has arrived at Vandenberg
Air Force Base in anticipation of its launch on October 6,
2009.
As one of the next generation of WorldView-class satellites,
WorldView-2 features advanced agility and accuracy,
industry-leading collection capacity, and eight-band multispectral
imagery, The company’s sophisticated constellation enhances
DigitalGlobe’s ability to rapidly collect and maintain up-to-date
imagery of the areas of greatest interest to its defense,
intelligence, government, and commercial clients. Furthermore, it
accelerates the speed by which its leading ImageLibrary is
refreshed and expands the ways in which the ImageLibrary can be
used.
“With the addition of WorldView-2, an impressive third component
of our constellation, DigitalGlobe will have increased capacity,
which is expected to improve the speed with which we deliver our
imagery products to our customers and provide more frequent refresh
of our ImageLibrary to support a range of monitoring, analysis, and
decision-making services,” said Jill Smith, chairman and chief
executive officer of DigitalGlobe. “The combination of rapid,
comprehensive imagery collection; an industry-leading ImageLibrary;
and fast and flexible worldwide content delivery allow DigitalGlobe
products to integrate seamlessly into any mapping or enterprise
solution, including hosting services, Web services, and mobile
applications.”
The launch of WorldView-2 will make DigitalGlobe the only
commercial world-imagery provider with high-resolution, eight-band
multispectral capability. The new bands support greater levels of
feature identification and extraction, more accurate change
detection, and a truer reflection of the world’s natural colors.
With additional capacity and more frequent revisit rates,
DigitalGlobe can provide the most accurate depiction of the world
from space, supporting client initiatives that include digital
map-making and location-based business decisions.
DigitalGlobe expects images and products from WorldView-2 to be
available within 90 days of launch. The satellite was built by Ball
Aerospace (NYSE: BLL) and the imaging sensor was provided by ITT
Corporation’s (NYSE: ITT) Space Systems Division.
To learn more about DigitalGlobe’s advanced constellation of
sub-meter satellites, please visit www.digitalglobe.com.
About DigitalGlobe
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, internet portals and navigation technology. With our
collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more
than 730 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. For more information, please visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
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