Who are the very high resolution satellites ?

Applications of very high resolution (VHR) satellites include urban mapping as well as mapping of natural resources and of natural disasters, tax mapping, agriculture and forestry analysis, mining, engineering, construction and change detection. These satellites can yield relevant data for nearly all aspects of environmental studies. Most of them can acquire panchromatic and multispectral data in 4 bands from visible to near infrared.

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Rio de Janeiro port by IKONOS
IKONOS image detail (0.8 m resolution) of the Rio de Janeiro Port, Brasil (20/04/02). Source: © 2007 GeoEye. Click on the image for entire view.

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IKONOS, Orbview-3 and GeoEye-1

IKONOS
IKONOS
Orbview-3
Orbview-3
GeoEye-1
GeoEye-1

Quickbird and WorldView-1

Quickbird
Quickbird
WorldView-1
WorldView-1

Formosat-2 and Kompsat-2

Formosat-2
Formosat-2 (Taiwan)
Kompsat-2
Kompsat-2 (Korea)

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