Defense & Intelligence Imagery

More Eyes in the Sky

For more than a decade, defense and intelligence agencies across the United States, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America have relied on DigitalGlobe to provide eyes in the sky, helping them build their geospatial foundation and gather timely intelligence. We provide our defense and intelligence clients with access to the highest resolution, most accurate commercial imagery in the world from both our vast imagery archive as well as through service level agreements to collect new imagery. As a result, clients can track a range of threats on the ground and make precise mission planning decisions to protect lives. Given that DigitalGlobe imagery is all unclassified, it can be easily shared to support coalitions with partner nations and nongovernment organizations (NGOs). When combined with our geospatial expertise and enabling technology, DigitalGlobe can deliver imagery products directly to the warfighter and other mission partners on demand.

Defense & Intelligence imagery products include:

EnhancedView Web Hosting

DigitalGlobe’s EnhancedView Web Hosting Service (EV WHS) enables the NGA to provide its clients in defense and intelligence with online access, visualization, and dissemination of its latest satellite imagery. EV WHS is the perfect tool in situations that require near real-time access to precise imagery for:

  • Rapid Response Ortho
  • Disaster Planning
  • Emergency Response
  • Damage Assessments
  • Topographic Mapping Support
  • 2D and 3D Visualization
  • Surveillance & Monitoring

EV WHS Features and Capabilities

  • With EV WHS, each user has secure access to multisource unclassified, high-resolution, natural color, GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, and WorldView-2 imagery.
  • As we acquire imagery, it is processed and disseminated in near real-time to the wide spectrum of GEOINT users, including DoD/NGA map producers, members of the intelligence community, and forward-deployed personnel who serve in the U.S. military and in embassy positions.
  • The EV WHS supports up to four million square nautical miles of imagery content across three domains: Internet, NIPRNet, and SIPRNet.
  • Imagery content within the EV WHS is geopositionally precise and includes a single image strip layer, a foundation GEOINT mosaic layer, and a rapid response ortho layer for a specific area of responsibility.
  • EV WHS delivers imagery in less than 24 hours with 6-8m, CE 90 positional accuracy.

Enhanced GEOINT Delivery

Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (EGD) is imagery content served through EnhancedView Web Hosting Services (EV WHS). EDG consists of the following:

  • EGD is a broad regional coverage of unclassified commercial imagery that is routinely updated and maintained.
  • EGD imagery layers consist of rapid response orthos, single image orthos, each delivered with hours of acquisition, and foundation GEOINT orthomosaics.
  • EGD source data consists of multisource 0.5m unclassified imagery that is seamless and radiometrically balanced.
  • While traditional orthoimagery products such as CIB and DPPDB are delivered via DVD or hard drive media, EGD is delivered via EnhancedView web hosting services.
  • Any registered EV WHS user has immediate, on-line and on-demand access to EGD imagery. EGD data is also accompanied by the EnhancedView license, so data can be shared among the U.S. government, approved industry partners, and coalition team members.

Imagery Mapping Products

DigitalGlobe is a certified producer of imagery mapping products for the U.S. Government. Please contact your Sales or Support Representative for more information.

Controlled Image Base™ (CIB)

Delivered through the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), DigitalGlobe’s Controlled Image Base (CIB) product is orthorectified panchromatic imagery that provides clients in defense and intelligence with accurate views of terrain at specific levels of resolution. CIB includes:

  • Distributed to reveal large areas of tiled imagery, CIB gives clients the ability to view expansive areas of terrain, zooming in as needed to visualize features as small as 1 meter.
  • CIB includes draped imagery over terrain to create a 3D effect, securing better views of mountains and valley, even determining the slope of land.

As a result of CIB, defense and intelligence clients can enhance warfighting effectiveness, whether they are planning or simulating missions, analyzing troop mobility or routes, or supporting defense navigation systems in the cockpit of an advanced avionics package.

Digital Point Positioning Database™ (DPPDB)

Digital Point Positioning Databases, or DPPDBs, are used by the Department of Defense to support mission planning and precision engagement. DPPDBs provide critical positioning support to aircraft that use radar navigation systems, as well as to autonomous weapons that require precise coordinates for enhancing targeting accuracy.