SI Imaging Services (SIIS) started commercial services of KOMPSAT-3A imagery with the world’s second highest resolution satellite from July, 5th. KOMPSAT-3A is part of the Korean Multipurpose Satellite Program developed and operated by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for earth observation purpose. The earth observation satellite offers clear imagery with a resolution less than 0.5 meter. KOMPSAT-3A, also known as Arirang-3A, was launched into orbit in March last year. After more than a year of successful test operation, SIIS began the commercial services on 5th of July. It would make South Korea the world's second country to enter the less-than-0.5-meter-resolution satellite imagery market after the United States. KOMPSAT-3A is the sister of KOMPSAT-3, using the same satellite bus and payload. Its local access time is very unique in the afternoon, 13:30, which is the same with KOMPSAT-3. However, since KOMPSAT-3A was put into lower orbit than KOMPSAT-3, it delivers clearer and sharper view. The same imaging time and similar payload with KOMPSAT-3 will amplify its capacity and help to even out the difference of the color. With KOMPSAT-3A imagery available today with 0.5 meter resolution imagery of KOMPSAT-3 at customer’s service, decision makers have new and more options to consider for their needs.  New York, United States (November 4th, 2015) ⓒKARI – Worldwide Distribution SIIS Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi (October 26th, 2015) ⓒKARI – Worldwide Distribution SIIS The pictures above are the KOMPSAT-3A images. They are the examples to show that KOMPSAT-3A can accurately spot the edges of buildings and small structures. The image of New York shows skyscrapers downtown, and even window shapes are spotted. In particular, the second image provides a vivid look of Ferrari World. The advantage of KOMPSAT-3A imagery is quite apparent in the last picture where details of the small structures are visible. SI Imaging Services (SIIS) is a leading satellite imagery provider for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation. SIIS is the exclusive worldwide marketing and sales representative of KOMPSAT constellation including KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A, and KOMPSAT-5. It is a unique combination of VHR optical and SAR data with variable local access time from the morning to the afternoon (06:00, 10:50, 13:30, 18:00). SIIS provides the satellite imagery worldwide through over 80 sales partners. Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is the Korean institute dedicated to aerospace research and is in charge of Korean space program. KARI has developed, and operated its optical remote sensing satellites such as KOMPSAT-1, KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A, and the first Korean SAR the satellite, KOMPSAT-5. In order to purchase, contact SI Imaging Services (sales@cafe24.com)

KOMPSAT high resolution satellite imagery in India 2016 was held in three different places on 10, 14, and 16 of June. SI Imaging Services team and Skymap global, SIIS's reseller in India, hosted the event together. SIIS was pleased to have the opportunity to host its customers in India for a very fruitful meeting which included a full-day program of presentations about our new products and applications. In closing, we would like to thank all attendees, Skymap global staffs and ours who supported KOMPSAT high resolution satellite imagery in India 2016, which was indeed very successful.

Tanjung Langsat Port (TLP) is the third port in Johor, Malaysia, designed to complement the Port of Tanjung Pelepas and Johor Port in Pasir Gudang. It is Southeast Asia's premier speciality terminal, it handles bulk cargo such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and dangerous chemicals. KOMPSAT-3 imagery spotted each tank's edge, and it allowed STEE team to measure the diameter of them. The number of tanks and their size give information of the capacity of port to handle chemicals and gas. In other parts of the analysis report, KOMPSAT-3 and KOMPSAT-5 image show oil rings on the sea around Tanjung Langsat port. Please download below attached file to see the full analysis report. Analysis report on Tanjung Langsat Port

KOMPSAT Reseller Meeting 2016 was held on 18-21 of May, 2016 in Daejeon, Republic of Korea. We truly appreciate our sales partners' attendance to KOMPSAT Reseller Meeting 2016. It was a great pleasure to all of us to meet each other in person at the event. During this period of time through the event, we became a KOMPSAT family. We would like to share some of the comments about our event from the participants: "Thank you so much for all the help this week.  The big things, the little things, and everything in between.  I will remember Daejeon and the SIIS group for a long long time.  You are going to make a difference in this industry and I hope that together we can make a difference in the world. We are building a great network together. A very valuable visit for me. KOMPSAT!!!" "Thanks a lot for the reseller meeting. I appreciate very much the organisation, the hospitality and the seminair. I take great time during the meeting. Latitude Geosystems will do our best to sell Kompsat data and we will try to give the same level of service as SI Imaging done." "Good morning and thank you very very much for the care you showed us at the Conference. You all got  +100%! Greeting to everyone. We look forward to getting back to you soon. Thank you." The pictures from the events are posted on the following website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/121979483@N04/albums/72157666287671514 KOMPSAT Reseller Meeting is held every two years. We look forward to seeing all of our KOMPSAT familes in the next two years again.

  Kotelny (Kotel’nyy) Island is located off the northeastern coast of Siberia and has been home to an actively maintained civilian meterological station on its northwest shore for several decades. During the summer of 2013, Russian Northern Fleet engineers landed on Kotelny Island to re-open the air base at Temp (Tempa) to facilitate further engineering efforts to expand the air field and build a permanent military base. KOMPSAT-5 imagery made it possible to detect a radar facility and new military base called 'Northern Shamrock'. Moreover, more details such as approximately 36m diameter radome and 19.5m diameter radome were shown in the analysis report. Please download below attached file to see the full analysis report. Status Analysis of Russian Expansion of the military base in Kotelny Island, Russia 

  SIIS has successfully held booth at Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The exhibition was held from May 23rd to 26th in 2016. The exhibition was focused on geospatial information and business regarding satellite business. SIIS members discussed some projects with other exhibitors and attendees. A lot of them had interest in our product, KOMPSAT, in particular, our newly launched products.

SIIS has successfully held booth at ISRS 2016 in Jeju, Republic of Korea. The exhibition was held from April 20th to 22nd in 2016. KARI's booth was located right next to ours. It was good opportunity to promote KOMPSAT to users. Moreover, many informative sessions were held during the exhibition.

Russia has been openly re-establishing its military presence in the Arctic for some time now, and it is close to completing a permanent military compound. According to the country's officials, The base can 'comfortably' house 150 soldiers with enough supplies for 18 months. The report shows recently built airfield and main base of the area. Moreover, facilities in the main base such as construction equipment and materials storage and heating and power plant are detected in the imagery. Even it was covered with snow, users can notice the facilities over the area using SAR imagery. For the original report, please download the PDF file below. Status Analysis of Russian Expansion in the Arctic_Alexandra Islands

Terrabotics shared a report of DSM generation out of KOMPSAT-3 stereo imagery. We truly appreciate for their great effort. Following is the comment about KOMPSAT-3 imagery from Terrabotics. "We are quite pleased to share some pictures of the very high-quality 3m DSM that we have managed to generate from the K-3 imagery. We luckily managed to procure some ground control data from one of our customers to do a quick accuracy assessment. We are pleasantly surprised by the results. In summary, we are quite impressed by the quality of Kompsat-3, and especially it’s positional accuracy." For the original report, please download the PDF file below. KOMPSAT-3 DSM result_Albian Sands site, Canada