KOMPSAT-3A
KOMPSAT-3A is a Korean satellite launched in March 2015. Alongside 0.55m panchromatic and four multispectral bands, it carries a mid-wave infrared band that records heat.
Rate card
A$13 per km² from the archive
| Product | Archive per km² | Tasking per km² |
|---|---|---|
| KOMPSAT-3A 40 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-3A
Detail at 0.55m GSD
At 0.55m GSD, vehicles are countable, and building outlines, road furniture and single trees stay distinct. The panchromatic band carries that geometry, and the 2.20m 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 2.20m GSD multispectral sampling, not the 0.55m GSD panchromatic figure.
Mid-wave infrared
A mid-wave infrared band at 3.3-5.2 µm records emitted heat rather than reflected sunlight, so warm targets register where the reflective bands show nothing.
One satellite collecting
Collection rests on a single spacecraft, so opportunities arrive on its orbit rather than on demand. As stated by the supplier: 28 day revisit cycle. That is the cadence to plan against; a cloud-free result usually takes more than one opportunity.