WorldView-3 (WV 3) is a commercial

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owned by

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. It was launched on 13 August 2014 to become DigitalGlobe's sixth satellite in orbit, joining

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which was launched in 1999, QuickBird in 2001,

WorldView-1 WorldView-1 (WV 1) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. WorldView-1 was launched on 18 September 2007, followed later by the WorldView-2 in 2009. First imagery from ''WorldView-1'' was available in October 2007, prior ...

in 2007,

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in 2008, and

WorldView-2 WorldView-2 (WV 2) is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. WorldView-2 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of resolution, and eight-band multispectral imagery with resolution. It was launched 8 Oct ...

in 2009. WorldView-3 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of resolution, eight-band multispectral imagery with resolution, shortwave infrared imagery at resolution, and CAVIS (Clouds, Aerosols, Vapors, Ice, and Snow) data at resolution.

Launch

WorldView-3 was launched on 13 August 2014 from

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on an

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flying in the 401 configuration. The launch vehicle was provided by

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and launch services were administered by

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Notable uses

Satellite images from WorldView-3 were used in 2015 by an international team of archaeologists to discover what they then believed to be a

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settlement on Point Rosee, Newfoundland. From 2020, Scientists are using WorldView-3 to count and detect wildlife species, including African elephants. They used satellite imagery that required no ground presence to monitor the elephants. The team created a training dataset of 1,000 elephants and fed it to a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and compared the results to human performance. On 7 October 2022 the satellite took an on orbit image of

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