DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Imagery to Be Made Available to All Customers on January 4, 2010
December 17 2009 - 6:00AM
Marketwired
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial
high-resolution world imagery products and services for defense and
intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, announced
today that its latest high-resolution satellite, WorldView-2, is
expected to achieve full operational capability on January 4, 2010.
Successfully launched on October 8, 2009, WorldView-2 produced
the first set of images within eleven days after launch. The
satellite is expected to complete its commissioning process by
January 4, enabling DigitalGlobe to begin taking orders today for
WorldView-2 imagery from its global resellers, partners, and
customers.
"We are extremely pleased that WorldView-2 will reach full
operational capability as planned, approximately 90 days after the
October 8th launch," said Jill Smith, chairman and chief executive
officer of DigitalGlobe. "Timeliness is becoming ever more
important to our customers. The combination of WorldView-2's
collection capacity and daily revisit capabilities, coupled with
the ready availability of the most current and complete coverage of
the globe provided by our ImageLibrary, enables DigitalGlobe to
deliver imagery faster to our customers. In addition, WorldView-2's
eight-band multispectral capabilities will offer industry-leading
image quality providing for new and enhanced applications and
services such as feature identification and change detection."
WorldView-2 joins DigitalGlobe's existing sub-meter satellites
on orbit, QuickBird and WorldView-1, to enable an annual imaging
capacity equivalent to three times the earth's land mass.
WorldView-2 collects multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution
and panchromatic imagery at 0.46 meters.(1) The additional
multispectral band capability provides more spectral information,
supporting improved levels of analysis. In addition, WorldView-2 is
capable of direct tasking and direct downlink to support an even
broader base of customers demanding rapid dissemination of
satellite imagery.
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 810 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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results may vary materially from those indicated in these
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Exchange Commission (SEC). We undertake no obligation to update any
forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after
the date on which the statement is made or to reflect the
occurrence of unanticipated events.
(1) Due to current U.S. government restrictions. all imagery
will be re-sampled to 2.0 meter multispectral and 0.50 meter
panchromatic resolution unless the U.S. government has granted a
customer specific waiver of the restriction.
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