# WorldView-2 Imager
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Eight-band (plus panchromatic) VNIR pushbroom imager on the WorldView-2 satellite, operated by Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence / DigitalGlobe). The WV110 instrument was built by ITT Corporation on a Ball Aerospace BCP-5000 spacecraft. Launched 8 October 2009. Panchromatic GSD 0.46 m at nadir (450-800 nm); 8-band multispectral GSD 1.84 m at nadir covering Coastal Blue through NIR2 (396-1043 nm). 16.4 km swath at nadir. The first commercial satellite sensor to offer 8-band multispectral imaging. Extended operational service since design life expired January 2017.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **manufacturer**: vantor
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":396,"max":1043},"spectral_band_count":9,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84},"swath_km":16.4,"channels":[{"name":"Panchromatic","spectral_range_nm":{"min":450,"max":800},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":0.46}},{"name":"Coastal Blue","spectral_range_nm":{"min":396,"max":458},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"Blue","spectral_range_nm":{"min":442,"max":515},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"Green","spectral_range_nm":{"min":506,"max":586},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"Yellow","spectral_range_nm":{"min":584,"max":632},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"Red","spectral_range_nm":{"min":630,"max":690},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"Red Edge","spectral_range_nm":{"min":699,"max":749},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"NIR1","spectral_range_nm":{"min":765,"max":901},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}},{"name":"NIR2","spectral_range_nm":{"min":856,"max":1043},"spectral_band_count":1,"gsd_m":{"native":1.84}}]}
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: sw
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **deployment context**: orbital

## Compositional position
- worldview-2 (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> WorldView-2 Imager

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