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QuickBird Level 1B Panchromatic Satellite Imagery

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.57909/maxar/qb02_pan_l1b.001

The QuickBird Panchromatic Imagery collection contains satellite imagery acquired from Vantor, Inc.

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(formerly known as Maxar Technologies) by the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Imagery was collected by the DigitalGlobe QuickBird-2 satellite using the Ball High Resolution Camera 60 across the global land surface from October 2001 to January 2015.

This data product includes panchromatic imagery with a spatial resolution of 0.55m at nadir and a temporal resolution of 2.5 to 5.6 days. The data are provided in National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) and GeoTIFF formats. This level 1B data is sensor corrected and is an un-projected (raw) product.

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The data potentially serve a wide variety of applications that require high resolution imagery. Data access is restricted based on a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) license, and investigators must be approved by the CSDA Program.

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Stated by source: DigitalGlobe's QuickBird-2 · Infrared Imagery · Infrared Radiance · Quickbird Ball High Resolution Camera 60 · Reflectance · Visible Imagery · Visible Radiance
From keywords: Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
Inferred from text: Satellite remote sensing 65%

Provenance · 2 source records, 23 field assertions

Source	Key	Last seen	Raw
NASA Earthdata CMR	C2497480059-CSDA	12 d ago	JSON v1
NASA Data Portal	a264b22a-85fe-47ad-8623-7004e3abe59c	9 d ago	JSON v1

Field	Assertion	Extractor	Evidence
access_level	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomy	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:engineering	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physics	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:quickbird-bhrc-60	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/surface-radiative-properties/reflectance	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/infrared-wavelengths/infrared-imagery	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/infrared-wavelengths/infrared-radiance	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-imagery	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-radiance	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing	enrichment · NASA CMR	keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0	title+description (65%)
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:quickbird-2	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_date	source · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
description	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/Abstract
license_text	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
publication_date	source · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
spatial	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/SpatialExtent
temporal	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/TemporalExtents
title	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/EntryTitle
updated_date	source · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
version_label	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0

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Access: open
License: These data are restricted to NASA Funded Investigators as defined by an End User License Agreement developed by the CSDA Program and Maxar Technologies (now renamed as Vantor, Inc.) and is for noncommercial science and research applications only.License and copyright information must be specified with each image scene used. Copyright notice should include the year of publication (source date) and the name of the copyright owner. License information should be included with discretion. Marking example: @20xx Vantor.
Published: 2025-04-01
Updated: 2026-09-29
Version: 1
Formats: NTFNITF21NCDRD, GeoTIFF, PDF
Resource count: 18
Coverage: 2001-10-18 → 2015-01-27
Area: Global
Platforms: QUICKBIRD-2
Instruments: QUICKBIRD/BHRC-60
Processing level: 1B
Languages: en

DOI: 10.57909/maxar/qb02_pan_l1b.001
ckan:data_nasa_gov: a264b22a-85fe-47ad-8623-7004e3abe59c
CMR concept: C2497480059-CSDA
CMR short name: QB02_Pan_L1B.v1

QuickBird Level 1B Panchromatic Satellite Imagery

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