KOMPSAT-3
KOMPSAT-3 is a Korean satellite launched in 2012, collecting 0.7m panchromatic and 2.8m multispectral imagery. It rolls up to 45° and pitches up to 30°, so it can collect a stereo pair in a single pass.
Rate card
A$13 per km² from the archive
| Product | Archive per km² | Tasking per km² |
|---|---|---|
| KOMPSAT-3 55 cm · min width 2 km | A$13 min 25 km² | A$28 min 100 km² |
- Excl. tax, Australian dollars, processing included on optical orders.
- Smaller areas are billed at the minimum. Narrower parts are widened to the minimum width.
How it arrives
- Files
- Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF with STAC metadata
- Processing
- Orthorectified, pansharpened, colour-balanced, mosaicked
- Included
- Raw scenes, orthorectified scenes, surface reflectance, pansharpened, mosaic, QA report
- Sign-off
- An analyst signs off every delivery
- Delivery
- Most orders within 24 hours, archive often the same day
Samples are by application: apply, a short call, then the sample.
Apply for a sample →Technical specifications
What you can do with KOMPSAT-3
Detail at 0.7m GSD
At 0.7m GSD, buildings, road networks, field boundaries and mature trees read clearly, while street-level objects do not. The panchromatic band carries that geometry, and the 2.8m GSD multispectral bands are pansharpened against it, so colour products hold the same detail.
Standard index bands
Blue, green, red and near-infrared cover the everyday products: true colour, colour infrared, and the indices built from red and near-infrared (NDVI) or green and near-infrared (NDWI). Those index rasters carry the 2.8m GSD multispectral sampling, not the 0.7m GSD panchromatic figure.
One satellite collecting
Collection rests on a single spacecraft, so opportunities arrive on its orbit rather than on demand. As stated by the supplier: Agile body pointing ±45° roll, ±30° pitch. Pointing that far off nadir buys more chances at one area, at the cost of a more oblique look.
Stereo for elevation
Stereo pairs are collectable, so elevation comes out of the imagery itself instead of a global model: landform, terrain and the massing of built-up areas across your site. A stereo order includes a surface model, a terrain model and height above ground.