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DigitalGlobe: DigitalGlobe Unveils First WorldView-2 Images

^{Published on 2009-10-19 22:43:38 - Market Wire}
 

LONGMONT, CO--(Marketwire - October 19, 2009) - DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading
global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services
for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers,
today released the first images from WorldView-2, the company's
most recent high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite. Initial images,
issued after just 11 days on orbit, captured Love Field Airport near Dallas
and the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. More refinements to early-stage
images can be expected as the ongoing check-out and calibration continues.



WorldView-2 was successfully launched on October 8, 2009, and is currently
completing its routine calibration and check-out period. DigitalGlobe
expects the satellite to be operational and delivering commercially
available imagery products and services approximately 90 days from the
launch date.



The launch of WorldView-2 marked another first for DigitalGlobe and the
industry as the first high-resolution, eight-band, multispectral
commercial satellite. WorldView-2 is expected to improve the speed and rate
of imagery delivery to the government and commercial markets with
large-scale collection capacity and daily revisit rates. WorldView-2 joined
DigitalGlobe's existing sub-meter satellites on orbit, QuickBird and
WorldView-1, to enable an annual imaging capacity equivalent to three times
the earth's land mass.



WorldView-2 collects multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution and
panchromatic imagery at 0.46 meters.(i) The additional multispectral band
capability supports improved levels of feature identification and
extraction and more accurately reflects the world's natural color.



DigitalGlobe will preview first imagery from WorldView-2 at booth #591 at
the GeoInt 2009 Symposium this week in
San Antonio, Texas. The first issued WorldView-2 images can also be viewed
here.



To learn more about DigitalGlobe's advanced constellation of sub-meter
satellites, please visit [ www.digitalglobe.com ].



About DigitalGlobe



DigitalGlobe ([ http://www.digitalglobe.com ]) is a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced
from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions
support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil
agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas
exploration, infrastructure management, internet portals and navigation
technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary
(containing more than 730 million square kilometers of earth imagery and
imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and
services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our
imagery into their business operations and applications. For more
information, please visit [ www.digitalglobe.com ].



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(i) Due to current U.S. government restrictions. all imagery will be
re-sampled to 2.0 meter multispectral and 0.50 meter panchromatic
resolution unless the U.S. government has granted a customer specific
waiver of the restriction.