Satellite Maps FAQ and Resources
Area of Interest (AOI) Tool
Draw a rectangle on the map to define your Area of Interest and capture its coordinates.
How to Select Your AOI
Tip: The drawing toolbar appears at the top-left of the map.
- Pan and zoom the map to your area of interest.
- Click the rectangle icon in the toolbar.
- Click and drag on the map to draw your AOI.
- Use Edit Layers to move or resize the rectangle.
- Coordinates will automatically populate below the map.
Satellite Sensors
IMAGING Corporation Satellite Sensors
(0.50m)
WorldView-1 satellite sensor was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S.A., at 11:35 Hrs Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on September 18th, 2007. Watch video of WorldView-1 satellite launch. The WorldView-1 offers a high-capacity, panchromatic imaging system which features 0.50m resolution imagery.
(0.50m)
VANTOR’s WorldView-2 satellite sensor, launched October 8, 2009, provides 0.46m panchromatic (B&W) mono and stereo satellite image data.
The WorldView-2 sensor provides a high-resolution panchromatic band and eight (8) multispectral bands; four (4) standard colors (red, green, blue, and near-infrared 1) and four (4) new bands (coastal, yellow, red edge, and near-infrared 2), full-color images for enhanced spectral analysis, mineral mapping, wildlife monitoring, land-use planning, disaster relief, defense, and climate change.
(30cm)
The WorldView-3 satellite sensor was licensed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collect in addition to the standard panchromatic and multispectral bands, eight-band short-wave infrared (SWIR) and 12 CAVIS imagery. The WorldView-3 satellite was successfully launched on August 13, 2014.
(0.80m) - Decommissioned
The IKONOS satellite sensor was successfully launched as the first commercially available high-resolution satellite sensor on September 24, 1999, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. The IKONOS satellite sensor was decommissioned by DigitalGlobe on March 31, 2015.
(2.5m/5m) - Decommissioned
The SPOT-5 satellite sensor has been decommissioned as of March 31, 2015. SPOT-5 was successfully placed into orbit by an Ariane 4 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou during the night of 3 to 4 May 2002. Archived SPOT-5 Satellite Imagery will remain available.
(1.5m)
SPOT-6 satellite sensor built by AIRBUS Defence & Space was successfully launched on September 9, 2012, by a PSLV launcher from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. Watch video of SPOT-6 the satellite launch.
(5m)
The five (5) RapidEye satellite sensors were successfully launched from the DNEPR-1 Rocket on August 29th, 2008, at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. RapidEye was built by MacDonald Dettwiler, Ltd. (MDA) and will offer customers a data source containing an unrivaled combination of large-area coverage, frequent revisit intervals, high-resolution, and multispectral capabilities.
After 12 years of operation, Planet decommissioned the RapidEye EO satellite constellation in April 2020.
(15m)
ASTER satellite sensor is one of the five state-of-the-art instrument sensor systems on-board the Terra satellite that was launched on December 18, 1999, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA.
ASTER is a 15-meter, 14 band multispectral resolution instrument. It can be used for land cover and change detection, calibration, validation, and land surface studies.
(15m)
The Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite sensor was successfully launched from the Vandenburg Air Force Base on April 15, 1999. Landsat 7 satellite is equipped with Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), the successor of TM. The observation bands are essentially the same seven bands as TM, and the newly added panchromatic band 8, with a high resolution of 15-meters was added. An instrument malfunction occurred on May 31, 2003, with the result that all Landsat 7 scenes acquired since July 14, 2003, have been collected in “SLC-off” mode.
(0.5m)
The GeoEye-1 satellite sensor was successfully launched on September 6, 2008. The satellite, which was launched at Vanderberg Air Force Base, California, provides a resolution of 0.46-meters. Watch a video of GeoEye-1 satellite launch. GeoEye-1 is capable of acquiring image data at 0.50-meter panchromatic (B&W) and 1.84-meter multispectral resolution. It also features a revisit time of fewer than three days, as well as the ability to locate an object within just three meters of its physical location.
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