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WV03_MSI_L1B·v1·dataset

High-detail 8-color satellite photos (WorldView-3)

WorldView-3 Level 1B Multispectral 8-Band Satellite Imagery
land NASA CSDA Level 1B active NITF21NCDRDGeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. Very high-detail satellite photographs of the land surface in eight color bands, from coastal blue through red-edge and near-infrared, at about 1.24-meter resolution.

How it's made. Captured by the commercial WorldView-3 satellite and provided as sensor-corrected but un-projected raw (Level 1B) imagery.

How & where you'd use it. Supports many applications needing fine-detail imagery. Access is restricted under a government license and limited to approved investigators.

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 span2014-08-13 → ongoing
  • Measured byWORLDVIEW-3 (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-3 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-3 satellite using the WorldView-110 camera across the global land surface from August 2014 to the present. This satellite imagery is in a range of wavebands with data in the coastal, blue, green, yellow, red, red edge, and near-infrared (2 bands) wavelengths. The imagery has a spatial resolution of 1.24m at nadir and a temporal resolution of less than one day. The data are provided in National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF). 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

wv03_msi_l1b_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="WV03_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.