High Resolution Satellite imagery
Ortho Product (level 3A)

 

RapidEye's Ortho Product (Level 3A) offers the highest level of processing available.  Radiometric, sensor and geometric corrections have been applied to the data.  These have been rectified using a DTED Level 1 SRTM DEM or better, and with appropriate ground control can meet an accuracy of 6m 1-sigma (12.7m CE90).  The highest accuracy that can be achieved by these products meet 1:25,000 NMAS standards

Product attributes for the
RapidEye Ortho Product.

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Product Attribute Description
Product Components
and Format		 RapidEye Ortho image product consists of the following file components:
  • Image File – GeoTiff file that contains image data and geolocation information
  • Metadata File – XML format metadata file
  • Browse Image File – GeoTiFF format
  • Unusable Data Mask (UDM) file – GeoTIFF format
Pixel spacing 5 m
Bit Depth 16-bit unsigned integers
Spectral Bands Blue: 440-510 nm
Green: 520-590 nm
Red: 630-685 nm
Red Edge: 690-730 nm
NIR: 760-850 nm
Product Size

Tile size is 25km (5000 lines) by 25km (5000 columns).
250 Mbytes per Tile for 5 bands at 5m pixel spacing.
Product Orientation Map North up
Geometric Corrections
  • Sensor-related effects are corrected using sensor telemetry and a sensor model, bands are co-registered, and spacecraft-related effects are corrected using attitude telemetry and best available ephemeris data.
  • Ortho-rectified using GCPs and fine DEMs (30m to 90m posting)
Horizontal Datum WGS84
Map Projection Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
Resampling Kernel Cubic Convolution (default), MTF, or Nearest Neighbor
Product Framing

Image Tile (Image tiles are based on a worldwide, 24km by 24km fixed grid system. To each 24km by 24km grid square, a 500m overlap is added to produce a 25km by 25km image tile. Image tiles are black-filled 1km beyond the order polygon used during order placement. Tiles only partially covered by an image take will be also be blackfilled in areas containing no valid image data.

A ESRI Shapefile of the RapidEye Level 3A tile grid can be downloaded here