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VERSION 3-5 Aug. 2003 Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. Proprietary

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Copyright © 2007 Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.

DigitalGlobe operates the world’s highest resolution

commercial imaging satellite

QuickBird

The Company - Today


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Program Status

• QuickBird placed in 98 degree inclination, polar, sun synchronous, low earth orbit at 450 km altitude.

• Satellite is in optimal health and imaging verification and calibration has been completed. Products are now commercially available.


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QuickBird Specifications

61 centimeter panchromatic resolution at nadir 60 or 70 cm over the field of regard (± 25 deg)

450-900 nm (grayscale) 2.44 meter multispectral resolution at nadir

2.4 or 2.8 m over the field of regard (± 25 deg)450-520 nm (blue)520-600 nm (green) 630-690 nm (red)760-900 nm (near IR)

11 bit dynamic range

Collection capacity: ~57 scenes per orbit,

~70 million km2 per year

8 year design life, ~2100 lbs, 3m length


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Spacecraft Comparison

Source: Public announcements to date and DigitalGlobe estimates

1.0 m

8 km

32 Gbit

14MM km2

1.5 - 3 days

30-meter

2003

0.8m

11 km

64 Gbit

26MM km2

2 - 3 days

10-meter

Available

Resolution

Swath width

On-Board storage

Max collection/year

Average revisit time (1 meter)

Mapping accuracy

(w/out GCP’s)

Commercial product availability

0.6m

16.5 km

128 Gbit

70MM km2

2 - 3 days

10-meter

Available

1.8m

12.5 km

0

25MM km2

1 - 2 days

100-meter

Available

ImageSat


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QuickBird Imagery

Applications


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• Agricultural Assessments- Food Security Issues

• Crop Health

• Yields

• Agricultural Infrastructure

- Illicit Crops• Monitoring Eradication Efforts

• Identifying Processing Labs

• Identification of Growing Areas

QuickBird 61 cm Pan-Sharpened Fresno Region, California

Possible to determine

variations of crops within a

field and by row

Possible to determine

variations of crops within a

field and by row

Identification of Plowing ActivityIdentification of Plowing Activity

Emerging CropEmerging Crop

Agricultural Applications


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System of using QuickBird to analyze the taste of rice and wheat

Spectral analysis usingMultispectral imagery

Spectral analysis usingMultispectral imagery

Estimate contained amount of protein using ＮＤＶＩ and show the result on the map

Estimate contained amount of protein using ＮＤＶＩ and show the result on the map

It will be available to calculate the contained amount of protein of rice using QuickBird. Also it will be available to provide you the managerial system of rice overlaying both QuickBird and agricultural field in the map. In this case, they reflect these data for mowing.


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Case Study

Showing the degree of growth in each wheat field


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Case Study

Possible to find the difference of growth in agricultural fields

Using QB Imagery to Analyze


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Case Study

Example of enlarging the image

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