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From 2020, Scientists are using WorldView-3 to count and detect wildlife species, including African elephants. They used satellite imagery that required no ground presence to monitor the elephants. The team created a training dataset of 1,000 elephants and fed it to the Convolutional Neural Network
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at 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) resolution, and CAVIS (Clouds, Aerosols, Vapors, Ice, and Snow) data at 30 m (98 ft) resolution.
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Satellite images from WorldView-3 were used in 2015 by an international team of archaeologists to discover what they then believed to be a
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are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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of 0.31 m (12 in) resolution, eight-band multispectral imagery with 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) resolution,
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Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
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This article about one or more spacecraft of the United States is a
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flying in the 401 configuration. The launch vehicle was provided by
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On 7 October 2022 the satellite took an on orbit image of
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in 2009. WorldView-3 provides commercially available
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Index

Earth observation
DigitalGlobe
COSPAR ID
2014-048A
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SATCAT no.
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Bus
Ball Aerospace
Atlas V
Vandenberg
SLC-3E
Lockheed Martin
United Launch Alliance
Geocentric
Sun-synchronous
Perigee altitude
Apogee altitude
Inclination
Period
Epoch
WorldView-2
WorldView-4
Earth observation satellite
DigitalGlobe
Ikonos
QuickBird
WorldView-1
GeoEye-1
WorldView-2

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