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WV02_MSI_L1B·v1·dataset

Sharp 8-color satellite photos (WorldView-2)

WorldView-2 Level 1B Multispectral 8-Band Satellite Imagery
land NASA CSDA Level 1B active NITF21NCDRDGeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. High-resolution color photographs of the land surface taken in eight color bands, from coastal blue through near-infrared, sharp enough to see features under two meters across.

How it's made. Captured by the commercial WorldView-2 satellite and provided as a raw, sensor-corrected product that has not yet been map-projected.

How & where you'd use it. Supports any work needing very detailed imagery, such as mapping, land-cover study, and change detection. Access is restricted under a government license, so users must be approved first.

What's measured

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE IMAGERYSPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › INFRARED WAVELENGTHS › INFRARED IMAGERYSPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE RADIANCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › INFRARED WAVELENGTHS › INFRARED RADIANCELAND SURFACE › SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES › REFLECTANCE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2009-10-08 → ongoing
  • Measured byWORLDVIEW-2 (WV110)
  • Processing levelLevel 1B
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsNITF21NCDRD, GeoTIFF
  • StatusACTIVE

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

The WorldView-2 Level 1B Multispectral 8-Band Imagery collection contains satellite imagery acquired from Vantor, Inc. (formerly known as Maxar Technologies) by the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Imagery is collected by the WorldView-2 satellite using the WorldView-110 camera across the global land surface from October 2009 to the present. This satellite imagery is in the visible and near-infrared waveband range with data in the coastal, blue, green, yellow, red, red edge, and near-infrared (2 bands) wavelengths. It has a spatial resolution of 1.85m at nadir and a temporal resolution of approximately 1.1 days. The data are provided in National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) and GeoTIFF formats. This level 1B data is sensor corrected and is an un-projected (raw) product. The data potentially serve a wide variety of applications that require high resolution imagery. Data access is restricted based on a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) license, and investigators must be approved by the CSDA Program.

Get the data

wv02_msi_l1b_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="WV02_MSI_L1B",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from CSDA
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.