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QuickBird and WorldView 1

Axel Oddone, Technical Development and Support ManagerGiorgio Apponi, Business Development Director

21 June, 2007 Page n. 2Eurimage Proprietary

Launch date 18 October 2001

Satellite owner/operator DigitalGlobe (USA)

Weight class 900 Kg

Operational altitude 450 Km

Pan sensor 0.61 m @ nadir

MS sensor 4 bands, 2.4 m @ nadir

On-board storage 137.4 Gbits SSR

Image swath 16.5 Km

QuickBird


QuickBird archive with max 20% CC


Bam (Iran) was hit by a terrific earthquake on 26 December 2003;comparison between acquisitions of 30 September 2003 and 3 January 2004

QuickBird © DigitalGlobe, distributed by Eurimage


Cargo vessel Selendang Ayu that ran aground and broke apart off the shoreof Unalaska Island on 8 December 2004; image acquired on 13 December

QuickBird © DigitalGlobe, distributed by Eurimage


Beirut Intl airport, 9 August 2006QuickBird © DigitalGlobe, distributed by Eurimage


WorldView-1 status?


WorldView-1

Expected launch date 18 September 2007

Satellite owner/operator DigitalGlobe (USA)

Weight class 2500 Kg

Operational altitude 450 Km

Pan sensor 0.5 m @ nadir

MS sensor N/A

Image swath 16 Km

On-board storage 2192 Gbits SSR


Eurimage Rights

• Telespazio is DigitalGlobe investor and QB/WV-1 license owner

• Eurimage is the exclusive distributor of QB/WV-1 products in Europe (except Italy) and the Mediterranean Basin

• Responsible for all accounts in the exclusive territory and for the Int’l organizations located in Italy (e.g. ESA, JRC, UN)

• Provide access to world-wide coverage

• Collect requests for new acquisitions

• Standard Products Pricing Policy definition

• Reseller network management


Products

• Std products– Level 1B (Basic with ATT/EPH): Pan and/or MS

– Level 2A (Std with RPC): Pan and/or MS, Pansharpened

QB has 23 m (CE90%) standalone geolocation accuracy

• Value added products on request– Co-registartion

– Orthocorrection (with or without GCPs)

– Mosaicing

• Delivery– DVD and/or FTP (HD for larger volumes)

– VPN or encryption for security

– New methods under development (WMS, KML, …)


Tasking - 1

Today

Std

Priority

Rush

SOO

Near future

Std

Premium

Single Shot

NGANGA


Tasking - 2

• WV-1 will have 4,5x the QB capacity

• 60% of WV-1 is dedicated to NGA

• QB will be “free” for commercial orders


Gaza Strip, 14 June 2007


Image Acquisition Policy

• Fully US centralized control– 2 polar receiving stations: Tromsoe and Prudhoe Bay

– Tasking and Production in Longmont (CO, USA)

• US Gov’t 24-hrs block on delivery after acquisitions– Should soon be removed

• WorldView-1 is designed also for– Direct downlink

– Direct tasking


Current Acquisition Scheme

Generate Metadata and Browse Images for archive

15 orbits/dayUp to 57 scenes/orbitComplete downlink of memory for each orbit

Double backup of RAW data:one stored in Longmont, one stored outside Colorado

Processing to Basic (1B) or Standard (2A)

Narrowband Data Transmit toLongmont (CO)

Available on FTP server for 7 days

Ready to be shipped via Int’l courier


User Interfaces

• Archive catalogue– DigitalGlobe (www.digitalglobe.com/archive)

– Eurimage (http://www.eurimage.com/einet/choose.html)

– Shape file of all scenes

• Ordering– Through Eurimage CS

– Very soon on-line

• NRT needs– Rush from archive within few hours

– Rush tasking within the next 24 hours (if feasible)


QuickBird into the SSE Portal

• Catalogue linked to EiNet db

• Pilot test with ESA and aninstitutional customer:– Basic order from the SSE portal

(XML file exchange)

– Satellite delivery of the product


QuickBird inside other ESA tools

• Tech parameter into ESA’s tools:– SaVoir

– GMES Mission Capacity Planning


QB/WV-1 into GMES

• Definition of a GMES licence– Multiple users

– Web use

• Understand and accomodate ESA and GMES needs forwhat concerns– Archive tools and ordering procedures

– Storage of processed data

– NRT access in case of emergencies

– Monitoring services


Thank you!

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