RapidEye Satellite Image Demonstration Products

26 January 2009, 10:30am

Brandenburg/Havel, Germany, January 26, 2009 – Demonstration products generated by the RapidEye system are being made public for the first time today. The samples of the RapidEye Standard Image Products show an area over Griffith in New South Wales, Australia.

"We are enthusiastic about being able to show the world the high quality of our images by releasing our first demonstration product. This is also testimony to the excellent work of MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA), our general contractor throughout these last years,” said Wolfgang Biedermann, CEO of RapidEye. “We look forward to the completion of the commissioning phase so that image data and products can be made available to our customers worldwide."

The sample datasets are available for download as a RapidEye Ortho Product (level 3A) and RapidEye Basic Product (level 1B).

The RapidEye Ortho Product (level 3A) offers the highest level of processing available for the RapidEye Standard Image Products. These images have not only been radiometrically corrected, but also have been orthorectified using Ground Control Points and a DTED level 1 SRTM DEM (digital elevation model) or better.

The RapidEye Basic Product (level 1B) has radiometric and sensor corrections applied to the data.

The sample datasets include a metadata file, giving the user information about the image such as the acquisition date and time, file format, product level and locational coordinates. The datasets can be downloaded instantly as a zip-file from the RapidEye website below.

Detailed technical information about RapidEye Standard Image Products can be found in the RaidEye Standard Image Product Specifications document, available from the link below.

“We are very pleased about the performance level the system has reached and are confident as we are embarking on the last set of verification activities, which will allow for commercial operations in the very near future,” commented Pietro Widmer, RapidEye's Head of Operations and Engineering.

In addition to having demonstration products available, RapidEye is continuously updating their image gallery.

To see the newest interesting and beautiful images coming from the RapidEye constellation of five Earth observation satellites of Italy, Chile, China and more, visit the RapidEye Image Gallery (see link below).

RapidEye demo products

RaidEye Standard Image Product Specifications

RapidEye Image Gallery

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