Spotlight EAP: Introducing NIK System
SatVu is launching the world’s first constellation of high-resolution infrared imaging satellites. Delivering a first-to-market, space-based solution to enable governments and commercial organisations to tackle the environmental impact of modern life through the use of high-resolution infrared data.
Ahead of the launch, 66 organisations have committed to harnessing the unique power of infrared imagery by signing up to our Early Access Programme.
As early adopters, these organisations enjoy preferred access to our high-resolution infrared tasking imagery and the opportunity to secure valuable capacity on the inaugural satellite.
Our Spotlight EAP Partners series will showcase these businesses and the innovative products and services they offer.
In this edition we learn about NIK System: a vendor of remote sensing applications products based in Turkey, founded in 1996 as part of NIK Construction Trade Ltd.
Introducing NIK System
NIK System is a global software distributor and reseller, with a focus on satellites, remote sensor instruments and airborne cameras.
The company is producer and distributor of the Turkish version of GIS software, Global Mapper, in addition to distribution partnerships with a variety of innovative businesses.
Distributing products for 21 AT, AxelSpace, Capella, EUSI, HEAD, KGS, Maxar, Pixxel, RESTEC, SI Imaging Systems, Impro, SkyWatch, Planet, Wyvern, BlueMarble, Leica Geosystems Airborne Cameras and Malvern Panalytical ASD Range to customers working across a wide range of sectors, including:
Defence and security
Agriculture
City planning
Universities and research institutions
Geology and mining
Joining SatVu’s EAP
Having already downloaded sample data from SatVu’s image archive, NIK Systems aims to use the high-resolution infrared tasking imagery for a variety of applications.
Acting as data provider for Turkish companies and organisations to use in monitoring pipelines and mapping heat loss in buildings, as well as in mapping archeological sites and buried structures.
Some applications are dependent on data quality, sensitivity, service quality and delivery times, but NIK System also wants to test the data provided by our infrared tasking imagery for evapotranspiration, usability in geothermal energy fields for exploration purposes, as well as some military applications.
NIK System has some Earth observation satellites with thermal bands among their many partnered satellites, but these at best have 40 metres spatial resolution, which is not suitable for many of their intended applications. SatVu’s images will fill the gap between medium resolution satellite thermal solutions and airborne thermal solutions.
The ways NIK System will use the data provided by SatVu are many, and new opportunities are likely to arise in the future.
One of the key applications is periodic data and service supply for city/building heat loss analysis. Other applications include monitoring sea and lake discharges in critical areas, and the monitoring of vehicles and base camps may be applicable in some countries.
Climate Talk
“This data doesn’t need to be restricted to climate data. During the last few years there have been many studies about city heat islands and how it's an issue directly related with human health and environmental protections. Thermal high-res data will play a significant role to achieve sustainable development goals, such as targets #2, #11, #13, #14, #15. This data is unique. As mentioned above there is no high resolution thermal band available commercially, even in the 3000 to 5000nm range.” Yucel Erbay, Director, NIK System.