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QuickBird Level 1B Multispectral 4-Band Satellite Imagery
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.57909/maxar/qb02_msi_l1b.001
The QuickBird Level 1B Multispectral 4-Band Imagery collection contains satellite imagery acquired from Vantor, Inc.
Description
(formerly known as Maxar Technologies) by the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Imagery was collected by the DigitalGlobe QuickBird-2 satellite using the Ball High Resolution Camera 60 across the global land surface from October 2001 to January 2015.
This satellite imagery is in the visible and near-infrared waveband range with data in the blue, green, red, and near-infrared wavelengths. The spatial resolution is 2.16m at nadir and the temporal resolution is 2.5 to 5.6 days. The data are provided in National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) and GeoTIFF formats.
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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.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.57909/maxar/qb02_msi_l1b.001 ↗
QuickBird Level 1B Multispectral 4-Band Imagery Landing Page
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- QuickBird Data Sheet vantor.com/resources/quickbird-datasheet ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CSDA Program User Authorization Request Form csdap.earthdata.nasa.gov/signup ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- NextView End User License Agreement csda-maxar-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/NGA_NextView_Licensing.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CSDA Program Public Data Release Form csdap.earthdata.nasa.gov/signup/maxar/data-public-use-form ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF csda-maxar-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/PGC_Orthorectification_with_GDAL.pdf ↗
Commercial Satellite Imagery Orthorectification and Manipulation with GDAL
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource github.com/PolarGeospatialCenter/imagery_utils ↗
Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) open source commercial imagery utilities
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Vantor Home Page vantor.com ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- DigitalGlobe Imagery Support Documentation csda-maxar-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/ISD_External.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF csda-maxar-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/NCDRD_18February2010.pdf ↗
National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) Version 2.1 description
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- QuickBird Relative Radiometric Response Curves dgv4-cms-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/document/file/137/RSR_QuickBird.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF csda-maxar-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/ABSRADCAL_FLEET_2016v0_Rel20170606.pdf ↗
Absolute radiometric correction of DigitalGlobe products
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- DigitalGlobe Core Imagery Products Guide csda-maxar-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/digitalglobe-core-imagery-products-guide.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CSDA Program Data Evaluation Report cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/14180/CSDAPEvaluationReport_Apr20.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2497489665-CSDA.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Data download search.earthdata.nasa.gov ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- CSDA Program Data Request Form csdap.earthdata.nasa.gov/signup/maxar/data-request-form ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource science.nasa.gov/earth-science/csda ↗
Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Home Page
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/quickbird-level-1b-multispectral-4-band-satellite-imag… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2497489665-CSDA.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=0ac53e6b-bf64-476d-a5b9-05191c2da… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2497489665-CSDA.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- DigitalGlobe's QuickBird-2 · Infrared Imagery · Infrared Radiance · Quickbird Ball High Resolution Camera 60 · Reflectance · Visible Imagery · Visible Radiance
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 23 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2497489665-CSDA | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 0ac53e6b-bf64-476d-a5b9-05191c2dafc3 | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:quickbird-bhrc-60 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/surface-radiative-properties/reflectance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/infrared-wavelengths/infrared-imagery | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/infrared-wavelengths/infrared-radiance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-imagery | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-radiance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:quickbird-2 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |