When you operate on a global scale, you need to understand your world perspective each day. WorldView-2 improves the utility of satellite imagery across the breadth of location decisions and analyses that many enterprises need to make on a daily basis. Where should the next exploration start? How do I reduce costs in asset maintenance? Where should I expand my service areas and how much infrastructure do I need to implement my plans? Enterprise monitoring with satellite imagery is a cost effective, non-intrusive and fast way to gain deeper location insight. And with WorldView-2 that insight moves to a new level.
WorldView-2’s expansive collection capabilities delivers a daily collection rate of nearly 1 million square kilometers today, all of which is added to DigitalGlobe’s ImageLibrary (660,000,000 square kilometers – as of March, 2009). The pace at which WorldView-2 collects in conjunction with the DigitalGlobe constellation will mean that nearly 2 million square kilometers of the earth is viewed by DigitalGlobe each day. This is equivalent to France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Italy combined or South Africa and Mozambique together. WorldView-2’s large capacity insures that enterprises have the most up-to-date resource for their organization: no matter where in the world.
Satellite imagery from WorldView-1 is the best that you can get from any commercial satellite. For map ready processing, its accuracy insures that regions like China, India and areas of South America have the ability to be accurately and frequently mapped since the large scale of these territories and limited availability of ground control points makes other mapping means difficult and costly. For engineering companies and natural resource companies working in the midst of some of the most remote regions, WorldView-2 derived imagery will provide the pin-point exactness and quality required for exploration, facility development and asset monitoring.
The stereo collection resource of WorldView-2 offers large scale in-track stereo options for large geographic areas. The control motion gyros on the WorldView class satellite enable its agility and stereo collection rate, which surpasses other commercial satellites. Seeing the world in stereo accurately presents the world’s elevated terrains and creates some of the most realistic depictions from satellite imagery through 3D modeling and digital elevation models. For infrastructure development, mineral exploration, and oil & gas pipeline management, WorldView-2 will heighten the availability of elevation analysis and planning. For telecom planning, seeing the landscape and projecting the RF interference for developing areas will improve service level planning and reduce redundant asset placement costs.
Four additional remote sensing bands will be available on WorldView-2 which allows for more extraction of information from its imagery, and therefore more useful to the enterprise analysis and business decision process. For Telecom & Utilities companies planning new fiber optics, the certitude on the ground soil state, vegetation analysis and urban growth predictions will be improved over other imagery solutions. For Oil & Gas companies, the red-edge detector improves the early detection process for vegetation encroachment on assets and facilities, preventing risky damage and environmental impacts. For Insurance companies evaluating wild-fire risk areas, the health, age and type of vegetative species are revealed allowing for improved rate setting and risk adjustment factors. Across the enterprise spectrum, what you are looking for just got a whole lot clearer.
Satellite imagery services from WorldView-2 open up wider ranges of possibilities with its greater collection area and the revisit rate. For base map creation and monitoring services, the option to bring back a satellite view will reach a progressive rate that matches to the natural cycle of seasonal or other change dynamics. Snow, spring growth and summer heat all impact the enterprise assets. With more frequent services and revisit rates, enterprises will have the potential to view the seasonal changes in situ and put in place improved preventative maintenance strategies.
WorldView-2 will allow enterprises to see more of the earth, more richly and more often. Its greater capacity, accuracy, and feature identification from its additional bands improves the business analysis and planning capabilities across the worldwide enterprise.
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