WorldView 1
WorldView-1 launched on 18 September 2007 and collects panchromatic imagery only, at 50cm. It has no colour bands, so it suits work on shape, structure and change over time.
Rate card
Price on request
No published rate for this sensor. Send us the area and dates.
Ask for a price →How it arrives
- Files
- Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF with STAC metadata
- Processing
- Orthorectified, pansharpened, colour-balanced, mosaicked
- Included
- Raw scenes, orthorectified scenes, surface reflectance, pansharpened, mosaic, QA report
- Sign-off
- An analyst signs off every delivery
- Delivery
- Most orders within 24 hours, archive often the same day
Samples are by application: apply, a short call, then the sample.
Apply for a sample →Technical specifications
What you can do with WorldView 1
Detail at 50cm GSD
At 50cm GSD, vehicles are countable, and building outlines, road furniture and single trees stay distinct.
Panchromatic only
One panchromatic band at 400-900 nm. There are no colour bands and no separate near-infrared band, so this sensor answers questions about shape, structure and change over time; spectral questions need a multispectral sensor alongside it.
One satellite collecting
Collection rests on a single spacecraft, so opportunities arrive on its orbit rather than on demand. As stated by the supplier: 750,000 km² per day of collection capacity. A large area of interest competes for that capacity with everything else in the queue.
Stereo for elevation
Stereo pairs are collectable, so elevation comes out of the imagery itself instead of a global model: building heights, stockpile and pit surfaces, the shape of structures on the site you ordered. A stereo order includes a surface model, a terrain model and height above ground.