1. Resolution
By now, we all know that DigitalGlobe is the only company to offer native 30 cm and 50 cm resolution imagery, and we have lots of it. DigitalGlobe has the most expansive commercial satellite imagery library and continues every day to collect more sub-meter resolution imagery than all other industry players combined. As illustrated below, there’s a significant advantage to the higher resolution DigitalGlobe offers in Basemap. More details are visible, but beyond that, you can derive more accurate results from analytical interpretation (human or machine), and realize better results when adding vector data or mapping.
2. Deep historical and very recent time-lapse image browsing
DigitalGlobe Basemap is available in two main flavors. One of these features an advanced user interface for browsing images over time. This feature is useful for change-detection use cases, or for geospatial professionals who need to select an image from a specific timeframe from a large assortment. Basemap is a convenient, subscription-based way to access more than 1.5 billion square kilometers of DigitalGlobe imagery, the volume and quality of which is unrivaled by any other commercial provider.
3. Near- seamless, consistent mosaics
The second flavor of DigitalGlobe Basemap is near-seamless mosaic products. Other commercial offerings show a patchwork of manually curated imagery. By contrast, DigitalGlobe Basemap mosaic products are developed using a patented, sophisticated process that enables us to make mosaics at very large scale—even a country-wide scale—that appear as a nearly seamless and consistent single image. DigitalGlobe delivers a level of quality at scale that’s impossible using traditional manual curation methods. DigitalGlobe mosaics are processed at scale for geometric, radiometric, and seasonal factors, allowing imagery over large areas to be ready for immediate customer use with the best possible aesthetics and clarity, without additional imagery processing on the customer’s part.
