Market Watch "at glance"

August 2015

• 101st Dove Satellite Reaches Space

• $255 bn for 1,400 satellites in next decade: Euroconsult

• Antwerp airport to use satellite data for landings

• Another first for ISRO as it readies to launch 9 US satellites

• Australian start-up builds iPhone-powered 3D laser scanner
• Avere Systems Announces General Availability of High Performance, Scalable NAS for Google Cloud Platform  

• Azavea awarded research grants for Earth observation web tools  

• BRIEF-Rostelecom, Russian Space Systems to develop geo-information systems

• China to launch self-developed remote sensing satellite in October

• DigitalGlobe, in major policy decision, won't sell 30-cm imagery to free-access map providers like Google
• DigitalGlobe to Present at the Jefferies Industrials Conference 
• DigitalGlobe launches New API and POrtal for developers
• EOMAP Enters Into Teaming Agreement With Fugro  
• Google restructures into new company called Alphabet
• Here's why small satellites are so big right now 
• Imagery Proliferation has Diplomatic Cost for France
• Inside Spire: How SmallSats Are Enabling A Successful Startup
• ISRO’s BIG plans for the world / ISRO is hoping its 'BIG' offering would gain popularity in the market

• L-band Sensing Satellites Suffer Setbacks

• LiDAR Market Worth $1 Billion by 2020   

• Hexagon introduces smart mapping app
• How 3 technologies equal 1 huge step forward for Remote Sensing
• MDA Corp. Explains Drop in Satellite Orders, Says Move Out of U.S. Possible
• NASA awards Raytheon $240 million contract for earth science data system
• New TerraColor NextGen Landsat 8 Mosaics Released
• NSR: Sub-100 Kilogram Satellites to Exceed 2,500 Next Decade
• NSR Report Projects Satellite Earth Observation Market to Reach $4.5 Billion in Next Decade  
• NSr´s nano and microsatellite Markets ... the Gods have been good to space entrepreneurs lately

• Planet and GPC Group Team Up to Map the UAE

• PlanetiQ and Blue Canyon Technologies Partner to Transform Weather Satellite Industry and Dramatically Improve Weather Forecasting

• PlanetiQ Teams Up with Blue Canyon Technologies to Build SmallSat GPS-RO Constellation

• PlanetiQ opens Boulder facility for satellite weather sensor development

• Research and Markets: Global Satellite-based Earth Observation Market 2015-2019 - Launch of Growing Number of Earth Observation Satellites, a Kay Market Driver

• Satellite Earth observation market to reach $4.5 billion in next decade

• Satellite Images Show Economies Growing and Shrinking in Real Time

• Sentera receives FAA approval for use of drones in Agri operations

• SmallSat Entrepreneurs Eye Commercial Market Over Government

• Sony takes off into drone market

• Supergeo resells Formosat-2 imagery

• Surrey Satellite US expands business development team

• SSTL Announces the Successful Launch of the DMC3/TripleSat Satellite Constellation
• SSTL CEO Sees Stronger Demand Going Forward for SmallSats
• Trimble partners with AGCO

• UK and South African Space Agencies to increase collaboration

• UrtheCast Reports Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results

• UrtheCast HRC Achieves IOC, Looks to Grow EO Presence

• USDA gives $17 million for smart grid
• USDA Invests $63 Million to Support 264 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects Nationwide
• USGS Awards $4 Million to Support Earthquake Early Warning System in California and Pacific Northwest

• Venture capital to nurture ESA space applications