SIIS team went on a Europe road show for two weeks from May 28 to June 10. Our team delivered updated information about KOMPSAT to sales partners and customers. Our team visited several sales partners including TotalView, GISAT, Progea, Earth-i, Terrabotics, and GeoData Services. They discussed about project opportunities in the future. It was fruitful time to understand the satellite imagery market trend in Europe.

On June 14th at the Grand Hyatte Seoul, the SI Imaging Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Luciad NV in Belgium and its certified reseller in Korea G-Ros Co., with the goal of cooperating on offering joint solution using KOMPSAT data. SI Imaging Services a leading provider of VHR satellite imagery especially representative of KOMPSAT series and Luciad NV is the provider of Luciad software which is geospatial software platform specialized in Defense, safety and security, aviation, maritime and utilities and logistics area. The G-Ros is a certified reseller of Luciad in Korea and also technical partner with SIIS. This MoU means great cooperation between Korea and Belgium and with this agreement, Luciad will enrich its capacity to offer value-added product of KOMPSAT to customer through Luciad-based data management, visualization and analytics system. The KOMPSAT (Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite) program is a part of the Korean government’s space development program, which provides very high resolution satellite imagery to the global remote sensing community. Since the first launch (KOMPSAT-1, 6.6m optical) in 1999, resolution has improved to 40 cm (KOMPSAT-3A), and coverage now also includes X-band SAR satellite imagery. The KOMPSAT 3A offers at 40 centimeter resolution imagery for a variety of purposes such as mapping, monitoring infrastructure, agricultural purpose, managing natural resources etc,. And KOMPSAT-5 offers very high resolution SAR imagery up to 85 centimeters for change detection without weather condition. About SI Imaging Services SI Imaging Services is the exclusive worldwide marketing and sales representative of KOMPSAT series KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A and KOMPSAT-5. SIIS contributes Remote Sensing and Earth observation industries societies by providing very high resolution optical and SAR images through over 90 sales partners worldwide. Customers from industries as well as government and international agencies are using KOMPSAT imagery for their missions and researches and achieve good results in several remote sensing applications such as mapping, agriculture, disaster management, and so on. SIIS started its business as a satellite image and service provider and extended its business to KOMPSAT operation. Learn more at http://siis2014.cafe24.com/ About Luciad NV Founded in 1999, Luciad has grown from a start-up to a global facing company with offices in the US, Belgium, France, Germany, Mexico, Singapore, Spain and Turkey and works with leading organizations such as Airbus Defence and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Lockheed Martin and Thales. Luciad deliver geospatial software solutions that power the world’s mission critical operations. Our APIs provide developers with advanced visual analytics that allow them to unlock the potential of real time location intelligence and create the foundations for next generation geospatial systems. From safeguarding critical assets to creating the digital infrastructure for smart cities, we help users implement intuitive command and control systems. Our customers depend on Luciad for high performance visualization that allows them to implement scalable solutions. “Connect, visualize, analyze, act” is both our method and our motto. Learn more at http://www.luciad.com/ About G-Ros G-ros Co. has been provisioning Satellite/Aerial/UAV data and Digital Mapping/Consulting services with the belief of "We Show You a better world". Our staff are uniquely experienced in RS/GIS and are willing to help clients from resourcing data to processing, analyzing, visualizing and making optimal decisions. We are willing to share our knowledge, resources, best practices combined by very high resolution KOMPSAT series data and creative LUCIAD-aided Solutions for powerful visualization. Learn more at http://www.gros.co.kr

SI Imaging Services is pleased to announce it has signed a contract with DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), to provide KOMPSAT satellite imagery on DigitalGlobe’s SecureWatch imagery subscription service. SecureWatch features a web-based interface that gives intelligence agencies and defense organizations access to DigitalGlobe’s 7 billion sq. km. imagery library  totaling 100 petabytes of data  and millions of square kilometers of daily image collections, allowing them to understand and respond to changes in their areas of interest. SI Imaging Services will deliver electro-optical imagery from KOMPSAT-3 and 3A and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from KOMPSAT-5 within 48 hours of collection. These additional data sources will allow DigitalGlobe customers to monitor the world’s most dynamic and volatile locations with greater frequency, in particular those that are prone to heavy cloud cover. About SIIS SI Imaging Services (SIIS) is the exclusive worldwide marketing and sales representative of KOMPSAT series, KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A and KOMPSAT-5. SIIS contributes Remote Sensing and Earth Observation industries societies by providing very high resolution optical and SAR images through over 80 sales partners worldwide. Customers from industries as well as government and international agencies are using KOMPSAT imagery for their missions and researches and achieve good results in several remote sensing applications such as mapping, agriculture, disaster management, and so on. SIIS started its business as a satellite image and service provider and extended its business to KOMPSAT operation. For more information, please visit www.si-imaging.com. About DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution Earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the world's leading constellation, our imagery solutions deliver unmatched coverage and capacity to meet our customers' most demanding mission requirements. Each day customers in defense and intelligence, public safety, civil agencies, map making and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, navigation technology, and providers of location-based services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and expertise to gain actionable insight.

SIIS team went on a China road show for two days from May 24 to 25. Our team did KOMPSAT training in China visiting our partners. After the training, our team had meetings with Beijing Space View Technology, Beijing Vastitude Technology, and 21AT to discuss ongoing and future projects. We thank for their hospitality and excited to work with them in the future for big projects.

'International Symposium on Remote Sensing 2017' was held for three days from May 17 to 19 in Nagoya, Japan. The customers and companies from Japan gathered at the conference. SIIS team promoted KOMPSAT products at the event and had meetings with our reseller and customer. Our team cound find out the satellite imagery market trend in Japan.

'Earth Pixels and Space 2.0' was held for three days from April 25 to 27 in Silicon Valley, United States. Earth Pixel was a fruitful event to share technical knowledge in space industry, and our team discussed about remote sensing industry trends with other panel members. It was more focused on satellite imagery. The main topic of Space 2.0 was spacecraft system, and our team had opportunity to meet professionals at the event.

'International GIS Forum' was held for three days from April 19 to 21 in Moscow, Russia. The customers and companies from Russia gathered at the conference. Through sessions, presentators delivered presentations about satellite, UAV, and application.

SIIS team went on a road show from March 27th to April 7th in Southeast Asia to visit sales partners and customers. The sales partners and customers shared their opinions about KOMPSAT promotion. It was fruitful for us to know about customers' direct suggestions such as having KOMPSAT workshop in Southeast Asia. Moreover, SIIS team was pleased to discuss about big projects in the future.

KOMPSAT-3A satellite image is now available on SpyMeSat, which is the only mobile app by Orbit Logic for satellite imagery order. This is the easiest way to place an order for satellite imagery. In 2015, KOMPSAT-2, 3, 5 were added to SpyMeSat, and customers could easily place an order through the app. Recently, we have decided to add KOMPSAT-3A which has the highest resolution among KOMPSAT series into SpyMeSat to give customers wider options of products.