Market Watch "at glance"

July 2016

Market

• A Minimalistic Way to Tackle Big Data Produced by Earth Observation Satellites by AWS

• Airbus, 3v Geomatics partner for TerraSAR-X imagery acquisition program

• BAE Systems gets contract to provide assistance in geospatial intelligence services

• CartoDB Launches a Self-service Location Intelligence Tool and Rebrands Itself to CARTO

• Commercial Ground Segment Revenues Take Center Stage In New NSR Report

• Competitive Environment, Success Factors for NewSpace Startups

• Copernicus Contest Potential Of A Five Thousand Euros Gleaning  
  

• DigitalGlobe signs contract to provide World Imagery Map for ArcGIS platform
• EARTH-i and what3words Keep an Eeye on the Farnborough International Airshow from Aabove
• EMSA expands use of Radarsat-2 information for maritime applications
• FAO uses GIS to protect Agricultural Economy of vulnerable countries
• Forecast International Expecting 1,935 New Remote Sensing Satellites by 2025
• Internet of Things in Smart Cities Market to reach $147.51 bn by 2020

• Luxembourg invests to become the ‘Silicon Valley of space resource mining’

• Korea's SI Imaging: DigitalGlobe is no longer alone in selling 50-cm imagery
• MDA awarded follow-on contract to support NGA with persistent change detection
• NGA, NRO Announce Plans to Leverage Commercial Remote Sensing Capabilities
• Orbital Insight Raises $20 Million from Venture Capital Firms
• Orbital Insight raises $20 million to wring actionable intelligence from satellite imagery
• SAP Geographical Enablement Framework Simplifies Spatial Processing of Enterprise Business Data
• SCS AG Signs Earth Observation Contract with UrtheCast
• SIIS started KOMPSAT-3A commercial services
• Smart cities driving integration of BIM & geospatial
• Spaceflight Industries raises $18 million to acquire software company . Link to Blacksky news

• Spire Names Industry Veteran John Allan as VP Marketing and Sales for Its Maritime Domain Awareness Business

• Terra Bella’s SkySat 3 Sends Back First Pictures

• The EO Challenge Has Been Issued By Astrosat

• Thales Alenia Space Opens Innovation Cluster for European Offices
• Uber Just Partnered with DigitalGlobe
• USDA Announces $49 Million Public-Private Investment to Improve Critical Wetlands in 12 States
• USGS awards multimillion-dollar contract to Atlantic

• Vexcel Imaging and Orbit GT Sign Reseller Agreement