Tech Note: QuickBird Satellite Preprocessing and Production Workflow

📅 Published: 2025-02-18 ✍️ Source: Original article (reproduction prohibited)

QuickBird is a 0.6-meter high-resolution remote-sensing satellite from Maxar, USA. This article explains how to produce and process QuickBird satellite raw data. What you need to prepare is the QuickBird satellite raw data (which must be purchased from a service provider) and GIS software (ENVI, ArcGIS, GlobalMapper, etc.). The processing work includes panchromatic-multispectral fusion, color enhancement, export and correction. The detailed steps are shown in Fig.1 to Fig.19.

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QuickBirdMaxar, USA
0.6 m resolution

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InputRaw data purchased
from a provider

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SoftwareENVI · ArcGIS
GlobalMapper

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OutputFused, enhanced,
corrected imagery

🔗 PAN + MS Fusion 🎨 Color Enhancement 📤 Export 📐 Correction

📌 Preprocessing Workflow at a Glance

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📦 Prepare raw data
(purchase from provider)

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🖥️ Set up GIS software
ENVI / ArcGIS / GlobalMapper

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3
🔗 PAN + MS
fusion

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4
🎨 Color
enhancement

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5
📤 Export &
correction

📊 Processing tasks covered in this workflow

🔗 Panchromatic + multispectral fusion

core

🎨 Color enhancement

quality

📐 Geometric correction

accuracy

📤 Export / format output

delivery

✔ The 19 step-by-step screenshots below (first 15 shown) follow this sequence from raw data preparation to final corrected output.

🛰️ The QuickBird Satellite

QuickBird is a high-resolution commercial remote-sensing satellite operated by DigitalGlobe (now Maxar Technologies, USA). Launched on 18 October 2001, it delivers up to 0.61 m panchromatic and 2.44 m multispectral imagery, and was retired in 2015.

0.61 m Panchromatic

2.44 m Multispectral

2001.10.18 Launch date

2015 Retired

QuickBird high-resolution commercial remote-sensing satellite (satellite bus) — Fig.0 — QuickBird satellite bus (illustration of the satellite itself, not satellite imagery) · Click to enlarge

To 【purchase QuickBird satellite imagery】, please contact Beijing OMap staff, or leave us a message online. Click Online Search to view more satellite project cases and samples.

QuickBird Satellite Preprocessing and Production Process

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🏢 About Beijing OMap Geographic Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Beijing OMap Geographic Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing OMap”) is a well-known satellite map service provider in China, headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing. OMap mainly provides 1–3 m resolution Chinese remote-sensing imagery data, including historical image maps taken from the 1960s to the 1980s, as well as Chinese Gaofen (High-Resolution) series satellite imagery captured after 2015.

Satellite imagery is licensed by area (scene). Chinese satellite image maps typically cost 1–30 yuan per km², averaging about 500–3,000 yuan per image; final pricing depends on area, resolution, acquisition date and processing. Any individual, company or institution may purchase it, with a formal procurement contract and invoice, and delivery normally within 5–10 working days, with expedited service available as fast as the same day.

📍 Address: Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

💬 Data inquiry (WeChat): xdj_jl

📞 Sales manager: 13301238517

✉️ Email: accpxdj@gmail.com

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