Latin America Geospatial Forum was held for three days, from November 6 to 8 in Sheraton Maria Isabela Hotel in Mexico City, Mexico. SIIS team attended the exhibition to promote KOMPSAT in Latin America. It was a good opportunity for SIIS team to broaden our market in Latin America and find potential sales partners. Along with the exhibition, SIIS team went on a road show  to visit partners in Latin America. They welcomed our team with hospitality and discussed about future projects.

UNWGIC 2018 was held for three days, from November 19 to 21 in the Deqing International Convention Center in Deqing, China. The main theme of the exhibition was "The Geospatial Way to a Better World" with the objective of sharing technology and ideas to solve various problems that the world is facing. SIIS team attended the exhibition to promote KOMPSAT in China and meet sales partners. It was a good opportunity to get information about remote sensing industry trend in China for SIIS team. According to UNWGIC, About 1000 people registered as official.

2018 KSRS Fall Conference was held for three days, from October 24 to 26 in Deogyusan Resort in Muju, Republic of Korea. SIIS team attended the exhibition to promote KOMPSAT in the domestic market. KARI delivered informative presentation about KOMPSAT application.

4th Eurasia SDI Conference was held for three days, from September 12 to 14 in Lotte City Hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. SIIS was invited to attend the conference, and Mr. KH Lee delivered presentation regarding KOMPSAT satellites.

Smart Geospatial Expo 2018 was held for three days, from September 12 to 14 in Coex & Intercontinental Seoul Coex in Seoul, Republic of Korea. SIIS team attended the exhibition to promote KOMPSAT in the domestic market.   

KOMPSAT-5 successfully operated for its mission lifetime of 5 years and will continue its mission! KOMPSAT-5 is a SAR satellite which provides an all-weather, day-and-night supply of images of Earth’s surface. We are sharing a KOMPSAT-5 image over Attapeu in Laos taken on August 17th, 2018 when flooding happened due to dam collapse. The image shows flooded area in dark tone. The dam collapse caused flash flooding which swept away homes. KOMPSAT-5 were able to acquire this image in spite of the bad weather over the area. On celebration of KOMPSAT-5’s successful operation for its mission lifetime, KARI(Korea Aerospace Research Institute) held a workshop on August 22nd. People gathered in this workshop to celebrate KOMPSAT-5’s successful operation.

SIIS team attended Geoint 2018 in Tampa, USA hosted by USGIF and held April 22-25. It was great opportunity to meet satellite imagery users and sales partners in USA. Our team had meetings with out exhibiting partners in the exhibition and found potential sales partner in that region.

The 3rd KOMPSAT Reseller Meeting was held from May 15 to 18 at Seoul Koreana Hotel. This year, we had 36 participants from 24 partners. We had shared trend and knowledge in satellite imagery industry and networking. SI Imaging Services hosted this event and sponsored by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Satrec Initiative.

SIIS team attended GeoSmart Asia and Locate 2018 in Adelaide, Australia hosted by Geospatial Media and Locate from 9th to 11th of April. It was our first time to attend an exhibition in Australia, so our team had opportunity to meet satellite imagery users and sales partners in Australia. Our team had meetings with out exhibiting partners in the exhibition and found potential sales partner in that region. We have participated exhibitions by Geospatial Media regularly, but it was our first time to attend Locate exhibition. Many australian users seem to attend Locate exhibitions often.