Optical · Ultra-high resolution
SpaceEye-T
- Resolution
- PAN 25 cm · MS 1 m
- Bands
- Panchromatic and 4 multispectral
- Swath width
- 12 km
- Revisit
- Under 1 day, global daily revisit
- Launched
- March 2025
Satellite Imagery.
With SI Imaging Services
We have partnered with SI Imaging Services, a world-leading Earth observation provider, to deliver access to the KOMPSAT and SpaceEye-T satellites. Designed for precision, agility and insight, the imagery lets you map cities, monitor crop health, track threats and manage crises, for faster responses and smarter planning.
01 · The satellites
Down to 25 cm, and radar that sees through cloud.
Every satellite, with its full specifications and imaging modes.
Optical · Very high resolution
KOMPSAT-3A
- Resolution
- PAN 0.4 m · MS 1.6 m, at nadir
- Swath width
- 13 km at nadir
- Spectral bands
- PAN 450–900 nm · Blue 450–520 nm · Green 520–600 nm · Red 630–690 nm · NIR 760–900 nm
- Location accuracy
- 6.2 m RMSE, under 9.4 m CE90, with POD/PAD
- Revisit
- 1 day
- Bit depth
- 14 bits per pixel
- Products
- Level 1R, Level 1G, ortho-ready
- Projection / datum
- UTM / WGS84
- File format
- GeoTIFF
- Launched
- March 2015
| Mode | Swath | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Strip | 13 km | Up to 4,000 km long |
| Multi-point | 13 km per target | — |
| Wide area | 25 km | Adjacent strips combined, up to 204 km long |
| Stereo | 13 km | Single- or multi-pass |
Optical · Very high resolution
KOMPSAT-3
- Resolution
- PAN 0.5 m · MS 2 m
- Swath width
- 16 km at nadir
- Spectral bands
- PAN 450–900 nm · Blue 450–520 nm · Green 520–600 nm · Red 630–690 nm · NIR 760–900 nm
- Location accuracy
- 19.9 m RMSE, under 30.19 m CE90, with POD/PAD
- Revisit
- 1 day
- Bit depth
- 14 bits per pixel
- Products
- Level 1R, Level 1G, ortho-ready
- Projection / datum
- UTM / WGS84
- File format
- GeoTIFF
- Launched
- May 2012
| Mode | Swath | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Strip | 16 km | Up to 4,000 km long |
| Multi-point | 16 km per target | — |
| Wide area | 45 km | Adjacent strips stitched, up to 100 km long |
| Stereo | 16 km | Single- or multi-pass, for elevation models |
Optical · High resolution · Archive only
KOMPSAT-2
- Availability
- Archive imagery only
- Resolution
- PAN 1 m · MS 4 m
- Swath width
- 15 km at nadir
- Spectral bands
- PAN and MS (blue, green, red, NIR)
- Bit depth
- 10 bits per pixel
- Products
- Level 1R, ortho-ready (Level 1G)
- Launched
- July 2006
| Mode | Swath | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Strip | 15 km | Long strips |
Radar · Very high resolution
KOMPSAT-5
- Sensor
- X-band SAR, day or night, through cloud
- Resolution
- 0.85 m to 20 m, by mode
- Swath width
- 5 km to 100 km, by mode
- Revisit
- 0.5–1 day, in any weather
- Location accuracy
- 6.22 m CE90
- Processing levels
- Level 1A (SLC), Level 1C, Level 1D
- InSAR
- Yes: repeat passes combined to measure ground movement
- Projection / datum
- UTM / WGS84
- File format
- HDF5, GeoTIFF
- Launched
- August 2013
| Mode | Detail | Swath | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spotlight, ultra high (UH) | 0.85 m | 5 km | — |
| Spotlight, enhanced high (EH) | 1 m | 5 km | — |
| Spotlight, high (HR) | 1 m | 5 km | — |
| Strip, enhanced (ES) | 2.5 m | 30 km | Up to 840 km long |
| Strip, standard (ST) | 3 m | 30 km | Up to 840 km long |
| Wide swath, enhanced (EW) | 20 m | 100 km | Up to 840 km long |
| Wide swath (WS) | 20 m | 100 km | Up to 840 km long |
Not sure which satellite?
Tell us the area and the detail you need, and we will recommend one.
KOMPSAT-7, an optical satellite, has now launched: ask us for its specifications and availability. KOMPSAT-6 (radar) and KOMPSAT-7A (optical) are still to come. What the terms mean
02 · Applications
What it is used for.
01
Mapping and planning.
Very high-resolution imagery for precise mapping across East Africa, the wider continent and beyond. Spectral reflectance and spatial detail let you map land cover, tell residential buildings from commercial ones, and follow road networks and land use as they change.
- Land cover and land use mapping
- Urban growth and change detection
- Elevation and 3D models, from stereo pairs
02
Infrastructure and energy.
Imagery taken from the same angle at regular intervals lets you measure structures, verify construction phases and check whether a project is on schedule. The same approach follows oil and gas facilities, from siting and construction to expansion, and picks up pollution such as discharge into nearby rivers.
- Construction progress on roads, bridges, ports and airports
- Facility siting, expansion and condition
- Environmental compliance around industrial sites
03
Agriculture.
Precisely calibrated optical sensors support farming across large areas: detecting drought stress, identifying crop types and cultivated area, and timing planting and harvest. Healthy vegetation reflects more near-infrared light, so the NIR band shows crop vigour, and indices such as NDVI measure it.
- Crop type and cultivated area
- Crop health, and early signs of stress
- Water, fertiliser and pesticide applied only where needed
04
Environment and disasters.
Near-infrared shows the health of vegetation over large areas, so forest and park managers can track deforestation, monitor protected areas and reforestation, and compare cover over time. KOMPSAT also supplies imagery to the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, to map damage and plan recovery.
- Forest cover, deforestation and land degradation
- Protected areas and reforestation
- Damage mapping after floods, fires and landslides
05
Maritime.
Vessels show up in optical imagery by their shape and shadow, even with their AIS switched off, which helps with illegal fishing and the Exclusive Economic Zones of the East African coast. KOMPSAT-5's radar sees day and night and through cloud, for ships, oil spills and illegal discharge.
- Vessel detection, including ships without AIS
- Oil spills, collisions and illegal discharge
- Algal blooms and changes in water quality
06
Security and defence.
Optical and radar imagery gives government and security clients a regular view of the ground: sensitive sites and infrastructure, damage after an incident, and the terrain and layout of facilities for planning.
- Site and infrastructure monitoring
- Damage assessment
- Terrain and facility mapping
Sample imagery: KOMPSAT © KARI, distributed by SIIS.
03 · Ordering
How ordering works.
Tell us the area
Send the area, the dates you need and how fine the detail has to be.
Archive or new capture
We check the archive for imagery that already exists and, where there is none, arrange a new capture. You have a quote before anything is ordered.
Delivered as supplied
The imagery arrives as SIIS delivers it, at the processing level you ordered. If a project needs it taken further, our remote sensing team can do that too.
Need analysis as well as imagery? See Remote Sensing
04 · Reading the specs
Modes and terms.
Imaging modes
Strip
One continuous corridor, along a road, river, pipeline or coastline.
Multi-point
Several separate sites imaged in a single pass, for monitoring work that is scattered.
Stereo
The same ground from more than one angle, for elevation models and 3D models of towns.
Wide area
Adjacent strips stitched together, for regional planning, land cover mapping and disaster monitoring.
Terms
- PAN
- Panchromatic. One broad band, 450–900 nm, recorded in black and white at the satellite's finest detail.
- MS
- Multispectral. Narrower bands (blue, green, red and near-infrared) at coarser detail, used for colour and vegetation analysis.
- GSD
- Ground sampling distance: the size of one pixel on the ground. At 40 cm, each pixel covers 40 × 40 cm.
- Swath width
- The width of ground imaged in one pass.
- nm
- Nanometre, a billionth of a metre: the unit the wavelengths of light are measured in.
- Bit depth
- How many brightness levels each pixel can record: 1,024 at 10 bits, 16,384 at 14.
- RMSE
- Root mean square error: the average location error across the image.
- CE90
- Circular error at 90%: nine in ten points fall within this distance of their true position.
- POD / PAD
- Precise orbit and attitude determination: measuring where the satellite was and where it pointed, to improve location accuracy.
- Level 1R
- Radiometrically corrected: sensor noise removed, with no geometric correction.
- Level 1G
- Geometrically corrected: basic geometric corrections applied, without ground control points.
- Ortho-ready
- Prepared for orthorectification. Terrain correction is still to be done.
- SAR
- Synthetic aperture radar. It images with radar rather than light, so it works at night and through cloud.
- Radar levels
- Level 1A (SLC) keeps the radar's phase, for InSAR. Level 1C is radiometrically corrected, without phase. Level 1D is georeferenced and ready for GIS.
- InSAR
- Combining radar images of the same place, taken at different times, to measure how the ground has moved.
- UTM / WGS84
- The map projection, and the global reference system GPS uses, that the imagery is delivered in.
- GeoTIFF / HDF5
- File formats. GeoTIFF carries its geographic reference, ready for GIS. HDF5 is used for radar data.
Ready when you are
Tell us the area. We will find the imagery.
Send the area, the dates and the detail you need. We check the archive, arrange a new capture where there is none, and quote.
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