QuickBird Satellite
QuickBird Satellite was launched in 2001, by Digital Globe offering imagery for map publishing, land and asset management, change detection and insurance risk assessment.
The QuickBird produces sub-meter resolution Panchromatic and Multispectral imagery. The data collection nominal swath width is 16.5 km at nadir, and areas of interest sizes are 16.5 km x 16.5 km for a single area and 16.5 km x 115 km for a strip.
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QuickBird Satellite Sensor
QuickBird was a high-resolution satellite sensor of commercial Earth observation satellite.
Satellite Specifications
| Launch Date | October 18, 2001 |
| Launch Vehicle | Boeing Delta II |
| Launch Location | Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA |
| Orbit Altitude | 450 Km / 482 Km – (Early 2013) |
| Orbit Inclination | 97.2°, sun-synchronous |
| Speed | 7.1 Km/sec (25,560 Km/hour) |
| Equator Crossing Time | 10:30 AM |
| Orbit Time | 93.5 minutes |
| Revisit Time | 1-3.5 days, depending on latitude (30° off-nadir) |
| Swath Width (Nadir) | 16.8 Km / 18 Km – (Early 2013) |
| Metric Accuracy | 23 meter horizontal (CE90) |
| Digitization | 11 bits |
QuickBird Sensor Resolution
| Sensor | Resolution |
|---|---|
| Panchromatic | 65 cm (nadir) to 73 cm (20° off-nadir) |
| Multispectral | 2.62 m (nadir) to 2.90 m (20° off-nadir) |
QuickBird Bands
- 4-Band Multispectral (BLUE, GREEN, RED, NIR1)
- 4-Band Pan-sharpened (BLUE, GREEN, RED, NIR1)
- 4-Band Bundle (PAN, BLUE, GREEN, RED, NIR1)
- 3-Bands Natural Colour (pan-sharpened BLUE, GREEN, RED)
- 3-Band Colored Infrared (pan-sharpened GREEN, RED, NIR1)
- Natural Colour / Coloured Infrared (3-Band pan-sharpened)
| Bands | Wevthlength (nm) |
|---|---|
| Multispectral Blue Green Red Near IR | 450-520 520-600 630-690 760-900 |
| Panchromatic | 450-900 |
QuickBird Satellite Imagery Data Download
Coverage Maps indicating the availability of QuickBird-2 products are available for Download in USGS
QuickBird-2
QuickBird-2 was an Earth-imaging satellite of Maxar of the United States which launched in October 2001 and ceased operations in 2015.
Sensor Specifications
| Orbit Altitude | 450 km |
| Orbit Type | Sun-synchronous |
| Orbit Period | 93.4 minutes |
| Equator Crossing Time | 10:30 am |
| Revisit Time | 2.8 days at 1-metre GSD resolution 1.5 days at 1.5-metre GSD resolution These values are for targets at 20 degrees latitude. |