NGA Purchases Entire Suite of CitySphere

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will use DigitalGlobe CitySphere to access imagery of 200 of the world’s major metropolitan areas.

CitySphere is an off-the-shelf collection of orthorectified color imagery provided by DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite. CitySphere features orthorectified 60cm (2 foot) mosaic colour imagery of 200 of the world’s largest cities. Cities such as Beijing, China; San Francisco, California; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Rome, Italy are available. Each city is comprised of imagery that is refreshed every year, so that no content is older than 24 months. With a broad range of international cities, CitySphere can help NGA serve clients such as the U.S. State Department and other intelligence community agencies. CitySphere can meet the geospatial content needs associated with embassy security, convoy and route planning security operations, the location of new property compounds, and the development of evacuation plans.