DigitalGlobe has succcessfully launched and deployed WorldView-2 on a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-2 will collect multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution and panchromatic imagery at .46 meters*. Geolocation accuracy is 6.5m, with predicted performance in the range of 4.6 to 10.7 meters. Geolocation accuracy with registration to ground control points is 2.0 meters.
This is about a year after the launch of GeoEye-1 Sep 6, 2008. GeoEye can collect images with a ground resolution of 0.41 meters* in the panchromatic or black and white mode. It collects multispectral or color imagery at 1.65-meter resolution. GeoEye-1 has three-meter geolocation accuracy without ground control points.
*For sub .5 meter resolution imagery the U.S. Government requires re-sampling the imagery to 0.5-meter for all customers not granted a waiver by the U.S. Government.
Uh, GE-1 launched in 2008, not few weeks ago.
Posted by: Daniel Dangerfield | October 09, 2009 at 05:05 PM