Today’s consumer navigation communities, whether using a portable device, a web application or an automotive in-built navigation system, uses satellite imagery to provide the visual reality of their whereabouts, whether its touring a foreign city, finding a friend, cruising the waterways or planning transportation routes. WorldView-2, with its large-scale imaging paths and unique high resolution multispectral capabilities, will collect the world in seamless perspective and color, and advance the location experience to new levels.

• More Reliable Maps

  Navigation doesn’t have to rely on a map when you can see a digital worldwide landscape. But the combination of accurate, detailed maps and satellite imagery provides the best confidence for any location based service. Getting a highly reliable map for map makers and online mapping services will take a step forward with the launch of WorldView-2. WorldView-2’s advanced multispectral capabilities will improve the feature extraction capabilities for map feature extraction so that additional details are visible from DigitalGlobe derived maps. More transportation networks, road-surface types, remote area access, rough terrain, and waterways are revealed from WorldView-2 derived imagery.

• More Places

  You need to know that the places your consumers view are covered by your service when building consumer navigation applications. You don’t need the dead-spots. WorldView-2 will collect more of the world’s cities, countries, ports, parks, golf-courses, resort destinations and roadways than any other commercial satellite. The amount of new images added daily to the DigitalGlobe ImageLibrary will jump by nearly 1 million square kilometers per day with WorldView-2 circling the earth. And, when combined with DigitalGlobe’s other satellites, consumer navigation specialists and developers will be able to integrate nearly 2 million square kilometers per day. Enough for every type of social media application, city by city tour guide, or seamless base map layer for all types of navigation device, especially when your consumers want to go to places where the street map ends.

• More Current Perspective

  Consumer navigation applications and devices are fast becoming the standard for our visual world perspective. Our world is changing fast with new metro growth, new traffic systems, new housing developments, and new places to visit from off-the-beat tracks. WorldView-2 will provide one of the most up-to-date views of our changing world. Individually, it can revisit any place on earth in just over a day but with the power of the DigitalGlobe constellation this is reduced to intra-day revisit rates to any location. So keeping track of that changing traffic system just got easier.

• More Visual Reality

  WorldView-2 based portals and navigation devices will see the world in its truest natural state. The enhanced color bands will bring better definition and clarity to a user’s visual reality, and allow mapping experts to use those bands to pinpoint more points of interests and create more diverse, interesting navigation applications.

• More Areas to Navigate

  For marine enthusiasts, WorldView-2’s coastal band creates an accurate navigation experience for all types of waterways and oceans. Marine map-makers will be able to create more accurate mapping experiences both physical and online as the WorldView-2 coastal band displays shorelines to depths up to 30 m, identifying safe waterways and underlying water obstacles, or for those interested in studying the marine environment, helping to track coastal erosion and the shifting sea-bed.

• More Differences

  What’s changed in a landscape provides a unique view for consumer navigation. Was that street there two years ago? How fast has the growth become in downtown Detroit? What happened to the Amazon forest over the past two years? These answers and more can be derived from WorldView-2 advanced change detection and automated feature extraction. If you want to see the world changes over time, WorldView-2 offers the collection areas and automated detailed feature identification which will fuel a new era of interactive, engaging navigation and locations uses.