Market Watch "at glance"

January 2015

• Airbus Defence and Space, TerraNIS and ARTAL Technologies join forces to intensify deployment of geo-information services

• Australia. Defence signs $16.5m landmark geospatial technology deal

• Com Dev completes MESL Microwave acquisition
  

• Earth Observation: NSR's The Year Of Seeing More
•  ESA and Airbus DS confirm partnership to complete the full European Data Relay System 
•  Gary W. Ferrera Named DigitalGlobe Chief Financial Officer 
• Geonorth announces new satellite imagery / remote sensing division
•  GeoOptics Continues Constellation Preparations Through New Partnerships 

• Global Satellite-based Earth Observation Services market by Government Users - 2015-2019

• Google aboard as Musk's SpaceX gets $1 bn in funding

•  Government mandates, mobile advertising and analytics services to drive location market
  

•  Government uses satellite big data to aid running departments 

•  Incorporation of the Magellium Ltd. team into Deimos UK 

•  McKinsey identifies need for GIS and GPS technologies to aid precision farming in India 
  
•  National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration Romania to update its IT system
  
•  PCI Geomatics announces strategic partnership with MDA for Accessing RADARSAT-2 Imagery 
•  Planet Labs Raises $95 Million for Tiny Earth-Observation Satellites 

•  Satellite-based Earth Observation Services Market in the US 2015-2019 

•  Satellogic Finalizes 16-Satellite Earth Observation Constellation 

•  Smallsat Developer Spire To Enter Commercial Weather Market
•  Swedish Space Corporation Expands Canadian Facility, Coverage 

•  UAVs are going to be a game changer in next year or two

• ‘UAV imagery is becoming a big market’