High resolution sensors: Orbview 3
Sensor
Pan 1m:
0.45 – 0.90 (= 450 – 900nm)
MS 4m: B: 0.45 - .52
G: .52- .60
R: .625 - .695 NIR: .76 - .90
Data: 11 bits per pixel
Swath: 8km
Whiskbroom, nadir to off nadir - 50 °
Satellite
Altitude 470km, scan at 10.30am
Orbit 97°
[Satellite dimensions 1.9 x 1.2 m]
2003-07
Corporation: Orbital Image Corp (now GeoEye)
http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/
Out of service (failed) 2007
Orbview 1 /2 1995/97 World’s first commercial satellites
Orbview 4: launch failure
Orbview 5 -> GeoEye 1 (2008)
Cost: $10 / km2
Minimum order: 64 or 192 km2
$34 for Pan DEM: DTM or DSM
Orbview 3
2003- 07
<- Toulouse
Midway Island
Right click -> format picture -> COMPRESS (all) -> all pictures web/screen -> save
Orbview 3 2003-07
A COMPARISON OF AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED ORBVIEW-3 AND IKONOS
ELEVATION DATA TO SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION DATA
http://www.asprs.org/publications/proceedings/portland08/0009.pdf
Orthorectifying OrbView-3 Data: PCI Tutorial
http://www.pcigeomatics.com/support/tutorials/pdf/Orbview-ortho.pdf
Comparison of image orientation by IKONOS, QuickBird and OrbView-3
http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2006-symposium-Warsaw/pdf/1360.pdf
Comparison of DEM Generation by Very High Resolution Optical Satellites
http://www.ipi.uni-hannover.de/uploads/tx_tkpublikationen/CDGbuy.pdf
Hope Fades for Recovery of GeoEye's OrbView-3 Satellite
http://uregina.ca/piwowarj/Satellites/OrbView3.pdf
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