Very high resolution optical images (e.g. QuickBird, IKONOS, WorldView) have a spatial resolution higher then 2,5m, thereby enabling the identification of single buildings, roads, vehicles, and even individual trees. Applications include urban planning, forestry, agriculture, hydrology and cartography.
EUROSENSE offers a wide range of VHR imagery:
IKONOS
The launch of the IKONOS satellite
in 1999 made history with the world's first one-meter commercial remote sensing
satellite. IKONOS produces black-and-white (panchromatic) images with 82-centimeter resolution and multispectral imagery
with 4-meter resolution. Imagery
from both sensors can be merged to create 1-meter
color imagery (pan-sharpened).
The more than 300 million square kilometers of imagery that IKONOS has
collected over every continent is being used for national security, military
mapping, air and marine transportation, and by regional and local governments.
IKONOS - 1m - Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver - Canada
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IKONOS - 1m - Theran - Iran
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| Includes material © GeoEye, all
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Includes material © GeoEye, all rights
reserved |
GEOEYE
The GeoEye-1 satellite launched in
2008 is the world's highest resolution commercial earth-imaging satellite. GeoEye-1
is equipped with the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial
satellite system. The GeoEye-1 satellite collects images at nadir with
0.41-meter panchromatic (black & white) and 1.65-meter multispectral (blue,
green, red and near infra-red) resolution. The detail and geospatial accuracy
of GeoEye-1 imagery further expands applications for satellite imagery in every
commercial and government market sector. The positional accuracy is the best of
all commercially available satellites, namely 3 meters.
| GeoEye-1 - 41cm - Athens - Greece |
GeoEye-1 - 41cm - Rome - Italy
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| Includes material © GeoEye, all rights reserved |
Includes material © GeoEye, all rights reserved |
Quickbird
DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite
provides very high resolution panchromatic and multispectral imagery. QuickBird
provides images at 61 cm (panchromatic) and 2,44 m (multispectral) resolution.
Its large swath width, combined with ample on‐board storage and geolocational
accuracy, allows it to efficiently and accurately image large areas of the
globe. The QuickBird spacecraft is capable of acquiring over 75 million square
kilometers of imagery data annually.
| Quickbird - 60cm - Old Head Golf Course, Kinsale - Ireland |
Quickbird - 60cm - Scranton, Pennsylvania - US |
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| Quickbird Products © DigitalGlobeTM |
Quickbird Products © DigitalGlobeTM |
WorldView-1
The WorldView-1 satellite, launched
by DigitalGlobe, is the first satellite equipped with state‐of‐the‐art control
moment gyros, which provide stunning agility, rapid retargeting and efficient
in‐track stereo collection. The WorldView‐1 spacecraft is capable of collecting
up to 750 000 square kilometers of 50 cm resolution panchromatic imagery
per day. The images are only available in black and white since there is no
multispectral sensor on board the satellite.
| WorldView-1
- 50cm - Inauration, Washington DC -US |
WorldView-1 - 50cm - Mumbai - India |
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| WorldView-1 Products © DigitalGlobeTM |
WorldView-1 Products © DigitalGlobeTM |
WorlView-2
WorldView‐2 is the first commercially available
8‐band
multispectral satellite equipped with state-‐of‐the-art control moment gyros. It also
has high agility, rapid retargeting and efficient in‐track stereo collection, plus with
its higher elevation, it provides faster revisit times around the globe. The
WorldView-‐2
spacecraft is capable of collecting up to 975 000 square kilometers of 50
cm panchromatic and 2 m 8-‐band multispectral imagery per day.
Beside the four standard bands (blue, green, red & near infrared), the
imagery also contains 4 additional colours (red edge, coastal, yellow and near
infrared 2).
| WorldView-2
- 50cm - Baths of Caracalla, Rome - Italy |
WorldView-2 - 50cm - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates |
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| WorldView-2 Products © DigitalGlobeTM |
WorldView-2 Products © DigitalGlobeTM |
SPOT5
SPOT 5 was launched on May 4, 2002 and has the goal to ensure
continuity of services for customers and to improve the quality of data
and images by anticipating changes in market requirements.
SPOT 5 has two high resolution geometrical (HRG) instruments that
were deduced from the HRVIR of SPOT 4. They offer a higher resolution of
2.5 to 5 meters in panchromatic mode and 10 meters in multispectral
mode. SPOT 5 also features an HRS imaging instrument operating in
panchromatic mode. HRS points forward and backward of the satellite.
Thus, it is able to take stereopair images almost simultaneously to map
relief.
SPOT5 - 2.5m -Canberra - Australia
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SPOT5 - 5m - Ljubljana - Slovenia
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| © Cnes 2003 - Distribution Spot Image |
© Cnes 2003 - Distribution Spot Image |
FORMOSAT-2
FORMOSAT-2 is the
first and only high-resolution satellite
with a daily revisit capability. The spatial resolution of
FORMOSAT-2 - 2
meters in panchromatic (black & white) and 8 meters
in multispectral (colour) mode - is an additional asset for
surveillance. Ideally suited to
strategic and operational intelligence missions, it is able to identify
and
characterize military sites, naval bases, air bases and refugee camps;
perform
reconnaissance of ships, aircraft and other assets; and surveillance of
strategic or industrial facilities. FORMOSAT-2's blue spectral band
allows to
produce natural-colour composites without special
processing.
| FORMOSAT-2
- 2m - Paris - France |
FORMOSAT-2
- 8m - Mokpo - South Korea |
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©
NSPO 2005 - Distribution Spot Image |
KOMPSAT-2
The very high resolution satellite KOMPSAT-2
acquires imagery in black and white (panchromatic band)
at a resolution
of 1 m and in colour (multispectral
bands) across 4 bands in the visible (red, green, blue
and near-infrared) at a resolution of 4 m.
Simultaneous acquisition of panchromatic and
multispectral images means
that merged 1-m images are available as a standard
product. KOMPSAT-2
images cover a footprint of 15 km x 15 km.
| KOMPSAT-2
- 1m - Sydney Olympic Park - Australia |
KOMPSAT-2
- 4m - Durrat al Bahrain - Bahrain |
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© KARI 2007 - Distribution Spot Image |
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