QUICKBIRD 2
The QuickBird satellite is the first in a constellation of spacecraft that DigitalGlobeTM is developing that offers highly accurate, commercial high-resolution imagery of Earth. QuickBird's global collection of panchromatic and multispectral imagery is designed to support applications ranging from map publishing to land and asset management to insurance risk assessment. Today, DigitalGlobe's QuickBird is the only spacecraft able to offer sub-meter resolution imagery, industry-leading geolocational accuracy, large on-board data storage, and an imaging footprint 2 to 10 times larger than any other commercial high-resolution satellite. Moreover, we are able to populate and update our digitalglobe.com archive at unprecedented speed because QuickBird's system features allow us to efficiently collect over 75 million square kilometers of imagery data annually.
Highest resolution sensors available commercially: 61-cm (2-ft) panchromatic at nadir 2.44-m (8-ft) multispectral at nadir. Industry-leading image accuracy: Stable platform for precise location measurement 3-axis stabilized, star tracker/IRU/reaction wheels, GPS. Fastest large area collection: 16.5-km width imaging swath 128 Gbits on-board image storage capacity. High image quality: Off-axis unobscured design of QuickBird's telescope Large field-of-view High contrast (MTF) High signal to noise ratio 11 bit dynamic range