2. High resolution sensors: Orbview 3 2003-07 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]

3. 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 / km 2 Minimum order: 64 or 192 km 2 $34 for Pan DEM: DTM or DSM

4. Orbview 3 2003- 07 <- Toulouse Midway Island Right click -> format picture -> COMPRESS (all) -> all pictures web/screen -> save

5. 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