US commercial applications - WorldView
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WORLDVIEW
The WorldView satellite will provide the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency with
imagery, and also be available for commercial uses such as
city planning, homeland security or forestry management.
Selected under a contract known as NextView, WorldView
implements a new level of partnering between the U.S.
Government and the remote-sensing industry. The
NextView contract allows the NGA early participation in
the development cycle for the next generation of U.S.
commercial satellite imaging capabilities.
Together, the imaging constellations will be capable of collecting more than 4.5 times the imagery of any current commercial imaging system. WorldView I alone will be capable of collecting up to 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 sq. mi.) of half-meter imagery per day. WorldView will be equipped with state-of-the-art geolocation
accuracy capability and will exhibit stunning
agility with rapid targeting and efficient in-track stereo
collection. The satellite will collect images with 50-
centimeter panchromatic resolution — up to 500,000
square kilometers (200,000 sq. miles) per day of halfmeter
imagery. It will operate in a 450-km 98-degree sunsynchronous
orbit, with each orbit taking 93.4 minutes. [1]
