WorldView-4 Imagery To Become Available To
All Commercial Customers On August 31
DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth
imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced
that it has delivered high-accuracy, high-resolution imagery from
its WorldView-4 satellite to PSMA Australia to further build out
Geoscape®, a digital representation of the Australian continent’s
built environment.
PSMA Australia offers national geospatial datasets derived from
authoritative sources to support a range of public and private
business solutions and is among the first commercial customers to
leverage WorldView-4 imagery. PSMA Australia is using
DigitalGlobe’s unrivaled satellite imagery to create valuable
location and built environment information for an estimated 20
million buildings across Australia, including features such as
building footprints and heights, rooftop materials, solar panels,
and swimming pools.
“Having access to precise information about the built
environment is critical for a number of industries in Australia
including insurance, urban planning, emergency management and
business intelligence,” said Dan Paull, PSMA Australia’s Chief
Executive Officer. “WorldView-4 delivers increased capacity for
very high quality satellite imagery collection over Australia,
supporting a more complete annual refresh of Geoscape data,
particularly land cover, elevation, and tree and building heights,
to meet the needs of our customers.”
WorldView-4 satellite imagery will be available to all
commercial customers beginning on August 31. WorldView-4 joined
WorldView-3 as the world’s highest-resolution commercial imaging
satellites and began serving its first direct access customer in
February. The satellite doubles DigitalGlobe’s capacity to collect
30 cm commercial satellite imagery.
“By adding WorldView-4’s high-accuracy, 30 cm imagery to our
100-petabyte, time-lapse image library, DigitalGlobe is making more
imagery available to cover the areas that matter to customers,”
said Amy Minnick, DigitalGlobe SVP and General Manager of
Commercial Imagery. “Our high-quality imagery is a powerful enabler
for numerous global transformations, such as the development of 5G
networks and autonomous vehicles, unlocking insights and delivering
actionable intelligence that allow customers to make decisions with
confidence.”
Leading up to the commercial launch of WorldView-4 products,
numerous partners, customers and ecosystem vendors tested the
imagery in their workflows. PCI Geomatics was among the prominent
software vendors to receive early imagery samples.
“PCI Geomatics has worked with early samples of WorldView-4
imagery provided by DigitalGlobe. Not only was the quality of
WorldView-4 imagery excellent, as we have come to expect from
DigitalGlobe, but we also found that the integration with our
desktop and large volume image processing systems was seamless,”
said David Piekny, Product Marketing Manager at PCI Geomatics.
“This is great news for our customers who will soon be using
WorldView-4 imagery to continue to produce high-quality products
and perform advanced analysis for their end users.”
To learn more about the commercial availability of
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 imagery, please register for the webinar
that will take place today at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution
Earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help
decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to
save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the world's leading
constellation, our imagery solutions deliver unmatched coverage and
capacity to meet our customers' most demanding mission
requirements. Each day customers in defense and intelligence,
public safety, civil agencies, map making and analysis,
environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure
management, navigation technology, and providers of location-based
services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and
expertise to gain actionable insight.
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