WorldView Series Overview

WorldView Series
Overview

WorldView Series Overview

Worldview Series Background

The WorldView Series are environment-monitoring satellites supplying high-resolution commercial Earth imagery since 2007.

Maxar's WorldView Series has set a new technological bar for commercial satellite imagery, offering customers the highest available resolution, revisit rate, capacity and spectral diversity.

	WorldView-1	WorldView-2	WorldView-3
Operator	Maxar
Launch Date	18 September 2007	8 October 2009	13 August 2014
Orbit Height	496 km	770 km	617 km
Orbit Type	Sun-synchronous, 10:30 am descending node
Orbit Period	94.6 minutes	100 minutes	97 minutes
Revisit Time	1.7 days at 1 m GSD resolution 4.6 days at 25° off-nadir (0.59 m GSD	Up to 1.1 days	1 day at 1 m GSD resolution 4.5 days at 20° off-nadir (0.59 m GSD)
Swath Width	17.6 km at nadir	16.4 km at nadir	13.1 km at nadir
Sensor Bands	Panchromatic: 450 - 900 nm	Panchromatic: 450 - 800 nm 8 Multispectral: Coastal: 400 - 450 nm Blue: 450 - 510 nm Green: 510 - 580 nm Yellow: 585 - 625 nm Red: 630 - 690 nm Red Edge: 705 - 745 nm Near-IR1: 770 - 895 nm Near-IR2: 860 - 1040 nm	Panchromatic: 450 - 800 nm 8 VNIR bands: Coastal Blue: 400 - 450 nm Blue: 450 - 510 nm Yellow: 585 - 625 nm Green: 510 - 580 nm Red: 630 - 690 nm Red Edge: 705 - 745 nm NIR1: 770 - 895 nm NIR2: 860 - 1040 nm 8 SWIR Bands: SWIR-1: 1195 - 1225 nm SWIR-2: 1550 - 1590 nm SWIR-3: 1640 - 1680 nm SWIR-4: 1710 - 1750 nm SWIR-5: 2145 - 2185 nm SWIR-6: 2185 - 2225 nm SWIR-7: 2235 - 2285 nm SWIR-8: 2295 - 2365 nm 12 CAVIS Bands: Desert Clouds: 405 - 420 nm Aerosol-1: 459 - 509 nm Green: 525 - 585 nm Aerosols-2: 635 - 685 nm Water-1: 845 - 885 nm Water-2: 897 - 927 nm Water-3: 930 - 965 nm NDVI-SWIR: 1220 - 1252 nm Cirrus: 1365 - 1405 nm Snow: 1620 - 1680 nm Aerosol-1: 2105 - 2245 nm Aerosol-2: 2105 - 2245 nm
Resolution	Panchromatic: 0.5 m GSD at nadir 0.59 m GSD at 25° off-nadir	Panchromatic: 46 cm GSD at nadir 52 cm GSD at 20° off-nadir Multispectral: 1.85 m GSD at nadir 2.07 m GSD at 20° off-nadir	Panchromatic: 0.31 m GSD at nadir VNIR: 1.24 m GSD at nadir SWIR: 3.70 m GSD at nadir CAVIS: 30 m GSD at nadir
Onboard sensors provided under TPM	WorldView-60 camera (WV60)	WorldView-110 camera (WV110)

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