WorldView 3
WorldView-3 launched on 13 August 2014. Besides 30cm panchromatic and eight multispectral bands, it carries eight shortwave infrared bands at 3.7m, which separate minerals, moisture and materials that look alike in colour.
Rate card
A$40 per km² from the archive
| Product | Archive per km² | Tasking per km² |
|---|---|---|
| Vantor WorldView-3 + SWIR 30 cm · min width 2 km | A$40 min 5 km² | A$105 min 25 km² |
| Vantor WorldView-3 + SWIR stereo 30 cm · min width 2 km | A$110 min 5 km² | A$210 min 25 km² |
- Excl. tax, Australian dollars, processing included on optical orders.
- Smaller areas are billed at the minimum. Narrower parts are widened to the minimum width.
- Stereo includes the DSM, DTM and height above ground. Stereo tasking is booked with our team.
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 3
Detail at 30cm GSD
At 30cm GSD, vehicles, road markings and individual roof structures stay separable. The panchromatic band carries that geometry, and the 1.2m GSD multispectral bands are pansharpened against it, so colour products hold the same detail.
Bands past red, green and blue
Alongside blue, green, red and near-infrared, this sensor collects a coastal band, a yellow band, a red edge band and a second near-infrared band. The coastal band reaches furthest into water, which is what shallow-water depth and water-quality work reads. The red edge sits on the step where vegetation reflectance climbs, so stress registers there before true colour shows it.
Shortwave infrared
8 shortwave infrared bands at 3.7m reach past the visible and near-infrared. At those wavelengths the signal follows moisture, mineralogy and material type.
One satellite collecting
Collection rests on a single spacecraft, so opportunities arrive on its orbit rather than on demand. As stated by the supplier: 680,000 km² per day of collection capacity. A large area of interest competes for that capacity with everything else in the queue.