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QuickBird-2 ESA archive

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  1. Go to the ESA User Services Portal
  2. Register or log in to EO Sign In
  3. Submit the form for accessing the data
  4. The request will be evaluated by ESA, which normally takes up to 2 days
  5. Upon successful evaluation, you will receive a confirmation email
  6. A second email will follow with details of where to download the data
  7. Search and download the products from the dissemination service (via a map).
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Description

The QuickBird-2 archive collection consists of QuickBird-2 products requested by ESA supported projects over their areas of interest around the world. The dataset regularly grows as ESA collects new products over the years.

Panchromatic (up to 61 cm resolution) and 4-Bands (up to nominal value of 2.44 m resolution, reduced to 1.63 m when the orbit altitude was lowered to 300 km at the end of the mission) products are available. The 4-Bands includes various options such as Multispectral (separate channel for Blue, Green, Red, NIR1), Pan-sharpened (Blue, Green, Red, NIR1), Bundle (separate bands for PAN, Blue, Green, Red, NIR1), Natural Colour (pan-sharpened Blue, Green, Red), Coloured Infrared (pan-sharpened Green, Red, NIR1), Natural Colour / Coloured Infrared (3-Band pan-sharpened).

The processing levels are:

  • STANDARD (2A): normalised for topographic relief
  • View Ready Standard (OR2A): ready for orthorectification
  • View Ready Stereo: collected in-track for stereo viewing and manipulation
  • Map-Ready (Ortho) 1:12,000 Orthorectified: additional processing unnecessary
  • Map-Ready (Ortho) 1:15,000 Orthorectified: additional processing unnecessary

Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.

The following table summarises the offered product types

EO-SIP product typeBand CombinationDescription
BGI_PAN_2APanchromatic (PAN)Panchromatic Standard/Panchromatic Ortho Ready Standard
BGI_PAN_MPPanchromatic (PAN)Panchromatic Map Scale Ortho
BGI_PAN_ORPanchromatic (PAN)Panchromatic Ortho Ready Stereo
BGI_4B__2A4-Band (4B)4-Band Standard/4-band Ortho Ready Standard
BGI_4B__MP4-Band (4B)4-Band Map Scale Ortho
BGI_4B__OR4-Band (4B)4-Band Ortho Ready Stereo

Details

DATA SET SPECIFICATIONS

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
Spatial coverage:
90 N, -90 S, -180 W, 180 E
Temporal coverage:
2002-02-11 - 2012-05-25
Date of launch:
2001-10-18
Operators:
Maxar
Mission status:
Completed
Orbit height:
450 km (300 km at end of mission)
Orbit type:
Sun-synchronous
Swath width:
16.5 km
Resolution:
Very High Resolution - VHR (0 - 5m), High Resolution - HR (5 - 20 m)
Wavelengths:
VIS (0.40 - 0.75 µm), NIR (0.75 - 1.30 µm)
Product types:
BGI_PAN_2A, BGI_PAN_MP, BGI_4B__2A, BGI_4B__MP

PROCESSING LEVEL

Level 2, Level 3, Multiple

APPLICABLE TERMS & CONDITIONS

Utilisation of this data is subject to ESA's Earth Observation Terms and Conditions.

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RESOURCES

Product Sepcification

Map Ready Data Imagery Sheet

Product Sepcification

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Product Specification

Stereo Product Details

Product Specification

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Product Specification

View Ready Imagery Data Sheet

Product Specification

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