DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Reaches Full Operational Capability on Schedule
January 04 2010 - 5:00AM
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, has
achieved full operational capability. Imagery from the satellite is
now available to global resellers, partners, and customers.
Launched on October 8, 2009, WorldView-2 joins DigitalGlobe's
existing sub-meter satellites, QuickBird and WorldView-1, on orbit.
WorldView-2 significantly expands the constellation's collection
capacity, enabling an annual imaging capacity equivalent to three
times the area of earth's land mass, and allows for intraday
revisit, providing customers with the most timely, relevant imagery
available in the commercial market. WorldView-2 is also the
industry's first commercial high-resolution satellite to offer
eight multispectral bands, which provide more spectral information
and allow for greater analysis capabilities, including improved
feature identification and change detection.
"Today's achievement is an exciting milestone for both
DigitalGlobe and the satellite imagery industry as a whole," said
Jill Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of DigitalGlobe.
"Our three satellite constellation, together with our comprehensive
ImageLibrary, will enable us to provide our customers with more
comprehensive high-resolution imagery coverage of the world faster
than ever before. The innovation offered by WorldView-2, including
industry leading agility and the unique eight multispectral bands,
will bring new value to the earth imaging industry and imagery's
everyday users."
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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