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DigitalGlobe Quickbird: High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
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QuickBird was launched on October 18, 2001 from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. QuickBird collects over 75 million square kilometers of imagery annually.
DigitalGlobe has established itself as the world’s most prominent supplier of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery. DigitalGlobe’s constellation of satellites is unprecedented in the commercial imaging industry, enabling commercial and government customers around the globe to access a broad selection of geospatial information products from a single source.
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Vatican City – Rome, Italy collected by the QuickBird satellite on August 24, 2004 Courtesy of DigitalGlobe
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Pricing starts at $14.00 per sq. km. for archive imagery. Please click on the “Get a Quote” tab and submit your area of interest to DDS using our DataFinder application. We will check coverage, availability, and respond with a price and estimated turnaround time.
| Quickbird Specifications |
| Imaging Mode |
Panchromatic |
Multispectral |
| Spatial Resolution |
.46 meter GSD at Nadir
.52 meter GSD at 20 degrees off-Nadir |
1.84 meters GSD at Nadir
2.08 meters GSD at 20 degrees off-nadir |
| Spectral Range |
450-800 nm |
400-450 nm (coastal)
450-510 nm (blue)
510-580 nm (green)
585-625 nm (yellow)
630-690 nm (red)
705–745 (red edge)
770–895 (near IR-1)
860-900 nm (near IR-2) |
| Swath Width |
16.4 km at nadir |
| Off-Nadir Imaging |
Nominally +/- 45 degrees off-nadir = 1,355 swath width
Higher angles selectively available |
| Dynamic Range |
11-bits per pixel |
| Mission Life |
7.25 years |
| Revisit Time |
1.1 days at 1m GSD or less
3.7 days at 20 degrees off-nadir or less (0.52 meter GSD) |
| Orbital Altitude |
770 km |
| Nodal Crossing |
10:30 am |
- TIFF ( with TFW )
- MIF (Map Info)
- JPG ( with JGW)
- img (ERDAS)
- GeoTIFF
- ECW (ER Mapper, compressed)
- ERS (ER Mapper)
- JP2, J2W (JPEG 2000)
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