SIIS and UP42 Agreement Makes KOMPSAT Satellite Imagery Available on the Marketplace
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SI Imaging Services (SIIS) of Daejeon, South Korea and UP42, have signed an agreement to make imagery from the KOMPSAT satellites available on the UP42 marketplace and developer platform. The deal includes high-resolution optical imagery from KOMPSAT-3 and -3A, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from KOMPSAT-5.
KOMPSAT imagery is a valuable addition to the more than 50 geospatial data sets now available on the UP42 marketplace, including satellite imagery from five international organizations. UP42 users will find imagery from the Korean constellation complements other data products by offering diverse spatial and spectral capabilities, broad dynamic ranges, afternoon acquisition times, extensive archives, and attractive price points.
“The addition of the KOMPSAT 3, 3A, and 5 broadens our current offering of high-resolution satellite and radar data. This high-quality constellation is invaluable for unlocking new use cases for our users globally through higher combined revisit and ranging acquisition modes.” said UP42 CEO Sean Wiid.
Wiid predicts one of the most important impacts on new use cases for UP42 users will come in the area of intraday monitoring — with the aid of KOMPSAT’s afternoon collection times. The addition of KOMPSAT data will also provide existing UP42 users with more options to augment infrastructure monitoring and vegetation management use cases.
“The UP42 marketplace enabled us to reach out to potential global customers. On the UP42 platform, customers will have easy access to high quality VVHR KOMPSAT EO and SAR constellation imagery up to 40cm resolution and gain valuable information through analysis,” said Moon-Gyu Kim, CEO of SI Imaging Services.
In its initial offering from KOMPSAT, UP42 will make tasking and archive ordering available from the following satellites:
The UP42 platform offers extensive Earth observation data sets and more than 70 analytics tools – along with cloud computing power – to create custom geospatial solutions easily and inexpensively. Users purchase just the data needed to cover their area of interest and then leverage off-the-shelf processing capabilities to analyze the data sets without investment in their own computing infrastructure. And for users who only want to purchase imagery, one simple API on the UP42 marketplace enables them to search multiple data providers and integrate selected imagery directly into their geospatial workflows.
The SIIS agreement broadens the UP42 data ecosystem, comprising of both satellite and non-satellite data sources:
Tasked and archive KOMPSAT imagery may be ordered now, along with other satellite and aerial data sets, by clicking on this link.
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 to Remote Sensing and Earth observation industries societies by providing very high resolution optical and SAR images through over 150 sales partners worldwide. Customers from industries as well as government and international agencies are using KOMPSAT imagery for their missions and research for remote sensing applications such as mapping, agriculture, disaster management, and so on. Visit https://www.si-imaging.com/ for more information.
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