DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Satellite Elevation Data Verified to Be Accurate Within 30 Centimeters
March 16 2010 - 8:00AM
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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, today
announced that the elevation data gathered from its latest
high-resolution satellite, WorldView-2, has been verified as
accurate within 30 centimeters by PhotoSat based on data collected
by MWH Geo-Surveys.
To conduct the test, PhotoSat constructed an elevation grid
using automatic geophysical processing of 50-centimeter ground
resolution stereo satellite images taken by DigitalGlobe's
WorldView-2 satellite. The resulting elevations were then
referenced against more than 20,000 gravity survey stations which
had previously been established as being accurate to better than
two centimeters.
"As one of the most technologically advanced high-resolution
commercial satellites in orbit, WorldView-2 continues to hit all of
our planned milestones, and we are thrilled with the assessments
made by PhotoSat," said Walter Scott, Founder and CTO of
DigitalGlobe. "For our customers, the quality of the image is only
half the story. Equally important is the data the image represents.
Having WorldView-2's elevation data verified as accurate to this
degree enables our customers to make decisions more confidently
than ever before."
"We are delighted with the quality of the imagery from this new
satellite and are amazed by its massive collection capacity.
WorldView-2 will enable PhotoSat to provide timely elevation
mapping to our resource customers everywhere in the world," said
Gerry Mitchell, President of PhotoSat.
To learn more about DigitalGlobe's advanced constellation of
sub-meter satellites and aerial network, 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 900 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.
About PhotoSat
PhotoSat is a leading provider of high definition elevation
mapping from stereo satellite photos. We are a team of
geophysicists and associated geoscientists specializing in the
automatic computer processing of stereo satellite photos. Our
detailed elevation maps are used for the identification,
evaluation, and monitoring of natural resources and the planning
and design of resource development projects and their related
facilities and infrastructure. Our principal clients are mining,
oil and gas, engineering, forestry and environmental companies and
government agencies. For more information please visit
www.photosat.ca.
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