WorldView 4

WorldView-4 operated from November 2016 until a control moment gyroscope failure in January 2019. Its 31cm archive, covering 2016 to 2019, remains orderable.

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Technical specifications

Provider Vantor (formerly Maxar)

Resolution

Panchromatic: 31cm GSD

Multispectral: 1.2m GSD

Swath width 16km at nadir

Accuracy 60cm with suitable ground control

Bands

panchromatic: 450-800 nm

blue: 450-510 nm

green: 510-580 nm

red: 655-690 nm

nearIR: 780-920 nm

Stereo available Yes

Coverage 680,000 km² per day

Altitude 617 km

Dynamic Range 11 bits

Orbit Type Sun-synchronous

What you can do with WorldView 4

Detail at 31cm GSD

At 31cm 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.

Standard index bands

Blue, green, red and near-infrared cover the everyday products: true colour, colour infrared, and the indices built from red and near-infrared (NDVI) or green and near-infrared (NDWI). Those index rasters carry the 1.2m GSD multispectral sampling, not the 31cm GSD panchromatic figure.

Archive only

New collection is not possible with this sensor. What stays orderable is its archive, at 31cm GSD panchromatic and 1.2m GSD multispectral, which is how a site is seen as it looked while the satellite was flying.

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.