SPOT Image Corporation has entered into an agreement with KAI Image as the distributor of KOMPSAT-2 products to customers across North America.

Through this partnership, SPOT Image Corporation can now offer users very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for projects requiring the detail of a 1-meter image. By signing this agreement, SPOT Image Corporation will promote, distribute, service, and support data capabilities for KOMPSAT-2 in the United States. KOMPSAT-2 is a 10-bit system featuring four bands (red, green, blue and near infrared), which simultaneously collects 1-meter panchromatic and 4-meter multispectral imagery to produce a standard 1-meter natural color product. The blue band capability of KOMPSAT-2 makes it an ideal solution for mapping shallow water, differentiating soil from vegetation and water penetration studies, such as corral mapping. This will allow SPOT Image to further enhance its current high resolution satellite offerings to a broad marketplace that includes defense, homeland security and commercial applications. Covering a footprint of 15 km x 15 km, KOMPSAT-2 is capable of collecting image segments in excess of 1000 km long. With this combination of imaging capacity and very high spatial resolution, KOMPSAT-2 is ideally suited for reconnaissance, surveillance and large-scale mapping, including urban planning, optimizing road and rail corridors, environmental impact studies, and precision agriculture. KOMPSAT-2 is just the latest addition to SPOT Image Corporation’s already vast selection of imagery products and services. In February 2010, SPOT Image plans to debut their first of two VHR satellites, Pleiades