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Fast Access to More Detail, Better Insight & Accurate Analysis Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery
1. Fast Access to More Detail, Better Insight & Accurate Analysis
…using High Resolution Satellite Imagery
Simon Casey
ESRI European User Conference. Sales Manager
Imagery Track. European Space Imaging
27th October 2011.
Proprietary and Confidential
4. Background Experience
Established in October 2002 in Munich
In March 2003 EUSI started operating the
German Regional Operations Center (GEROC) for IKONOS
Since April 2010 EUSI is operating the
European Direct Access Facility (EDAF) for WorldView-2
Both facilities
are at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) near Munich
have local tasking, data reception, and processing
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5. Network
• WorldView Global Alliance with DigitalGlobe
– The world’s largest commercial remote sensing company, delivering the highest-
quality, most accurate satellite imagery
– Owns and operates three earth imaging satellites: Quickbird, WorldView-1 and
WorldView-2
– WorldView-3 under construction – scheduled for launch in 2014
• Technology partner of DLR (German Aerospace Center)
– Joint operation of EUSI‘s WorldView DAF
– Project support
• 47 Resellers in 33 Countries
• Alliance covering 63 countries in Europe, North Africa and CIS
• Prime VHR data supplier to Europe
– Framework agreements with European Commission and EU/UN organizations
– National MoDs
6. The DigitalGlobe Constellation
QuickBird (2001)
Pan + 4 MS
0.67m nadir GSD
496 km altitude
Reaction wheels
WorldView-1 (2007)
Pan only
0.5m nadir GSD
496 km altitude
Control Moment Gyros
WorldView-2 (2009)
Pan + 8 MS
0.46m nadir GSD
770 km altitude
Control Moment Gyros
All imagery is resampled to .50 and 2.0 to comply with U.S. Regulation.
13. WorldView-2
• Very high resolution
•46 cm* panchromatic at nadir
• The most spectral diversity commercially available
•1.84 m* resolution at nadir
•4 standard colors: blue, green, red, near-IR1
•4 new colors: coastal, yellow, red edge, and near-IR2
• Highly accurate geo-location accuracy
• Typically ~5m (depending on terrain)
• High capacity over a broad range of collection types
•16.4 km width imaging swath (wider than any competitor)
•Bi-directional scanning
•Rapid retargeting using Control Moment Gyros
(>2x faster than any competitor)
•2199 gigabits on-board storage
•Frequent revisits at high resolution enabled by higher altitude
•1.1 days at 1 m GSD or less
•3.7 days at 20°off-nadir or less (52 cm GSD)
* Distribution and use of imagery at better than .50 m GSD pan and 2.0 m GSD multispectral is subject to prior approval by the U.S. Government.
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14. Advantages of Local Tasking
1. Feedback during imaging
planning
last minute information incorporated
into collection plan
2. Real-time weather information
used up to minutes prior to pass
3. Very detailed imaging planning
possible
up to 4 hrs spent per pass to optimize
collection plan
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15. WV2
ground
track
sites to collect
sites to collect
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25. ½ hr prior to pass
cloudy! Automatically
scheduled
cloudy! images
All images
cloudy!
cloudy!
cloudy!
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26. ½ hr prior to pass
Manually
scheduled
scheduled images
cloud free
All images
cloud free!
scheduled
cloud free
scheduled
cloud free
scheduled
cloud free
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27. 2. Effect of Real-Time Weather
Average collection results over Europe using different levels
of weather information:
• No weather forecast 30 % good 70 % bad images
• Weather forecast files 50 % good 50 % bad images
• Real-time weather 80 % good 20 % bad images
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30. DG Constellation Schedule
QuickBird WorldView-1 WorldView-2 WorldView-3
18 Oct 2001 18 Sep 2007 8 Oct 2009 mid-2014
DigitalGlobe Proprietary Information
31. Our Constellation At A Glance
Parameter QuickBird WorldView-1 WorldView-2 WorldView-3
Operational Altitude 450 km 496 km 770 km 620 km
Spectral Bands Pan + 4 MS Pan Pan + 8 MS
Pan Resolution (nadir) 0.61 m 0.5 m 0.46 m 0.31 m
Swath Width (nadir) 16.5 km 17.6 km 16.4 km 15.8 km
Image Scanning Forward only Forward or Reverse
Retargeting Agility Reaction Wheels Control Moment Gyros
37 41
Data Recorder 128 Gbits (2 bits) 2 Tbits (2 bits)
Downlink Rate (Mbps) 320 800 800 / 1200
Direct Tasking (DAP) No Yes Full
33. Advanced Elevation Series
• Both a DSM & DTM available
DSM - Digital Surface Model DTM - Digital Terrain Model
Includes vegetation and buildings Bare earth
35. Largest Commercial ImageLibrary
+ 1 billion square kilometers – grows 1.5 million square kilometers each day
•24 Million •43 Million •43 Million •45 Million •57 Million •87 Million •267 Million •241 Million •500 Million
km² km² km² km² km² km² km² km² km²
36. Value of WV-2 Bands
coastal applications, water penetration, deep water masks
Coastal materials differentiation, shadow-tree-water differentiation
coastal applications, water body penetration, discrimination of
Blue soil/vegetation, forest types, reef cover features
Green crop types, sea grass and reefs, bathymetry
leaf coloration, plant stress, CO2 concentration, algal blooms, sea
Yellow grass and reefs, separability of iron formations, “true color”
chlorophyll absorption, vegetation analysis, plant species and
Red stress
vegetation health, stress, type and age, sea grass and reefs
Red Edge land/no land, impervious from vegetated, turbidity, camouflage
biomass surveys, plant stress
NIR1 delineation of water bodies, soil moisture discrimination
biomass surveys, plant stress
NIR2 materials differentiation
47. Faster Synoptic Collects
WorldView-2 is the
fastest for synoptic
collects of targets and
large areas while
providing 8 spectral
bands
Note: Information based on WV-1 collects and all collections < 45 degrees off-nadir
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77. In summary...
• EUSI is the only operator performing local tasking for the
European region.
• Local tasking provides flexibility and a higher chance of
successful collections.
• WV-2‘s collection capacity and speed is unmatched
• Data rich ....new applications continually being researched.
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