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WV04_Pan_L1B·v1·dataset

High-resolution black-and-white satellite photos (WorldView-4)

WorldView-4 Level 1B Panchromatic Satellite Imagery
land NASA CSDA Level 1B NITF21NCDRDGeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. Very sharp black-and-white satellite photographs of land, with detail down to about a foot (0.31 m) at best. Panchromatic means a single grayscale channel capturing overall brightness.

How it's made. Captured by the commercial WorldView-4 satellite's camera between 2016 and early 2019; this is raw, sensor-corrected imagery that has not yet been placed on a map projection.

How & where you'd use it. Supports any work needing very fine detail, such as mapping, monitoring change on the ground, and emergency response. Access is restricted and requires approval under a license.

What's measured

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

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-12-01 → 2019-01-07
  • Measured byWORLDVIEW-4 (WV110)
  • Processing levelLevel 1B
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsNITF21NCDRD, GeoTIFF
  • StatusCOMPLETE

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-4 Panchromatic Imagery collection contains satellite imagery acquired from Vantor, Inc. (formerly known as Maxar Technologies) by the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Imagery was collected by the WorldView-4 satellite using the WorldView-110 camera across the global land surface from December 2016 to January 2019. This data product includes panchromatic imagery with a spatial resolution of 0.31m 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 Maxar End User License Agreement for Worldview 4 imagery and investigators must be approved by the CSDA Program.

Get the data

wv04_pan_l1b_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="WV04_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
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.