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WV03_Pan_L1B·v1·dataset

Sharp black-and-white satellite photos (WorldView-3)

WorldView-3 Level 1B Panchromatic Satellite Imagery
land NASA CSDA Level 1B NTFNITF21NCDRDGeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. Very sharp black-and-white satellite photographs of the land surface, with detail down to about 0.31 meters at best. This is the raw, un-mapped (unprojected) version of the imagery.

How it's made. Captured by the commercial WorldView-3 satellite and acquired by NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program; sensor-corrected but not yet aligned to a map projection.

How & where you'd use it. Supports a wide range of applications needing very high-detail imagery; access is restricted under a license, so users must be approved.

What's measured

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE RADIANCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › INFRARED WAVELENGTHS › REFLECTED INFRAREDSPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › INFRARED WAVELENGTHS › INFRARED RADIANCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE IMAGERYLAND SURFACE › SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES › REFLECTANCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › INFRARED WAVELENGTHS › INFRARED IMAGERY

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2014-08-13 → ongoing
  • Measured byWORLDVIEW-3 (WV110)
  • Processing levelLevel 1B
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsNTFNITF21NCDRD, 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 Panchromatic 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 imagery has a spatial resolution of 0.31m at nadir and a temporal resolution of less than one day. 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

wv03_pan_l1b_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="WV03_Pan_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
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