Business Activities
SSC Satellitbild is a supplier of geographical information and services using data from selected remote sensing satellites. SSC Satellitbild focuses on land applications with a high degree of value-added work.
The company offers an integrated facility for production of sophisticated satellite image maps which has made it one of the global leaders in this field.
The company is combining its products with expert interpretation, consultancy services and training in the sectors of forestry, land use, telecommunication, environmental applications, agriculture and geological mapping.

Wide Range of Products
The basis for the company's range of products is global remote sensing data, processed for example to precision corrected satellite image maps, base and thematic maps at scales from 1:25 000 to 1:1 000 000. The company provides a range of products including digital elevation models and land cover classification maps for land management (land use, forestry, agriculture a s o) and cellular communications; time series and change detection maps for map updates, environmental studies and monitoring, and disaster management.
SSC Satellitbild has developed GIS Image™ as a platform independent product for storing digital image data from satellites. Customers receive their products on a media that suits their particular geographic information system.

World-wide Client base
Clients include governmental agencies and private companies all over the world as well as international organisations such as the European Union, the World Bank, and the United Nations.

Authorised Representatives in Major Markets
In order to serve clients all over the world with information on the company's products and services SSC Satellitbild has set up local contact networks in Europe, Pacific Asia, Africa, South America and North America.

Research and Development
SSC Satellitbild R&D strategy takes a starting point in customer requirements for end-user products. Based on this understanding, the company makes a selection among the existing and upcoming satellite sensors and develops products together with its parent company, Swedish Space Corporation. In addition to refining and augmenting the existing product line based on data from the French Spot and the American Landsat satellites, the company has during recent years selected the Russian Resurs satellite as provider of medium-resolution imagery (160 m). This imagery is ideal for making products suitable for overview mapping and monitoring. SSC Satellitbild has also started development of land applications such as forestry by making use of imagery from European, Japanese and Canadian radar satellites.
Under separate agreements SSC Satellitbild will also access data from the upcoming, high-resolution satellites Early Bird and Ikonos 1. In particular the Ikonos 1 satellite with its 1 m panchromatic and 4 m multispectral resolution will enable the entrance into a new era of civilian mapping from satellites.

Organisation
SSC Satellitbild is a subsidiary of the government-owned Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Kiruna in northernmost Sweden. The French company Spot Image SA and the French Agency for Space Activities (CNES) are minority shareholders.
Together with the Esrange Satellite Station and the Salmijärvi Satellite Station, SSC Satellitbild forms the Earth Observation Division (EOD) of SSC.
SSC holds 50 % of the shares in Tromsö Satellite Station A/S which has complementary facilities and know-how to EOD in radar imagery and near real-time services for maritime applications. SSC Satellitbild holds 45 % of Spot Asia Ltd, a Singapore-based marketing company jointly owned with Spot Image SA. Spot Asia Ltd markets the products and services of the parent companies throughout Southeast Asia.

Turnover
Operating income is about 70 MSEK. The company currently employs around 60 people.

Head Office: SSC Satellitbild Aktiebolag, PO Box 816,
SE-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden
Telephone: +46 (0) 980 671 00. Telefax: +46 (0) 980 160 44 Customer Support: custsupp@ssc.se
Home page: www.ssc.se/sb

For further information, please contact:
Mr Christer Andersson, Sales Manager
SSC Satellitbild Branch Office, PO Box 4207, SE-171 04 SOLNA, Sweden
Telephone: + 46 (0) 8 627 64 50. Telefax: +46 (0) 8 98 49 75
E-mail: ca@ssc.se