Worldview: How do I get a georeferenced image from Worldview into my GIS?

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How do I get a georeferenced image from Worldview into my GIS?

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GeoTIFF

• Go to Worldview

• Load the layers that you are interested and change to the date you are interested in; you can also change from the Geographic projection (EPSG:4326) to Arctic (EPSG:3413) or Antarctic (EPSG:3031) projections by clicking on the globe icon in the upper right corner

• Pan and/or zoom into your area of interest

• Click on the Camera “Take a snapshot” tool in the upper right corner

• Drag the edges or corners of the box to encompass the area you are interested in

• Select your desired Resolution (per pixel)

• Select “GeoTIFF” as the format

• Click "Download"

• You will now have a zip file called “snapshot-YYYY-MM-DD.tiff” where YYYY-MM-DD is the day you selected for your image

• Load the image into your GIS!

JPEG or PNG with Worldfile (read more about Worldfiles)

• Go to Worldview

• Load the layers that you are interested and change to the date you are interested in; you can also change from the Geographic projection (EPSG:4326) to Arctic (EPSG:3413) or Antarctic (EPSG:3031) projections by clicking on the globe icon in the upper right corner

• Pan and/or zoom into your area of interest

• Click on the Camera “Take a snapshot” tool in the upper right corner

• Drag the edges or corners of the box to encompass the area you are interested in

• Select your desired Resolution (per pixel)

• Select “JPEG” or “PNG” as the format

• Select “Yes” for the Worldfile (.zip)

• Click "Download"

• You will now have a zip file called “snapshot-YYYY-MM-DD.zip” where YYYY-MM-DD is the day you selected for your image

• Upzip this file, it will contain 3 files ending in .jpg/.png; .jgw/.pgw; and .jpg.aux.xml/.png.aux.xml. The jgw/.pgw file contains the georeferencing information, the .jpg.aux.xml/.png.aux.xml contains the projection information

• Load the image into your GIS!