DigitalGlobe’s Basemap Suite Expands to Include 250 Million Square Kilometers of 30 cm Imagery

WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced that its online Basemap Suite has reached a significant milestone, with the availability of more than 250 million square kilometers of the world’s highest-resolution 30 cm commercial satellite imagery. This includes over 500 population centers in the Basemap +Metro product now available at 30 cm resolution and 1,700 cities available at 50 cm or better resolution, a level of detail that is unrivaled in the industry. In total, the Basemap Suite now features 1.5 billion square kilometers of high-accuracy, high-resolution imagery – 10 times the land surface area of the Earth.