Market Watch "at glance"

July 2018

Market

• Airbus-led consortium to provide European Union with seamless satellite-based coverage of Europe at unprecedented scale and speed

• Airbus and Planet Join Forces to Bring New Geospatial Products to Market
• Airbus Makes Universal Space Access a Reality for UN . Airbus to Help United Nations Provide Universal Access to Space
  
• Analysts Predict a Golden Age for Cubesats… If they Can Get Launched
• Atos activates new Earth Observation platform Mundi to consolidate disaster preparedness 
• Copernicus Accelerator is looking for high-level professionals as mentors
  
• DigitalGlobe and CGIAR Partner to Accelerate Machine Learning Solutions for Agriculture

• EarthWatch Launched by DigitalGlobe. Free trial

• Earth-i's Project OVERPaSS Consortium Funded by UK Space Agency
• Earth-i leads consortium to develop on-board processing for video imagery from space

• EC Open Call for the Copernicus Accelerator

• EO Investment Picture
  
• ESA, EIB Partner to Promote Space Investment Opportunities in Europe
• Forget Google Maps - New live Street View will blow your mind
• GAF Introduces Perfect Reference in x, y, z for Orthorectification of VHR Data
• Google and the United Nations Environment Programme to partner to monitor environmental. Google and UN Environment Partner on Data for Global Goals
• Indra Develops System To Give Direct Earth Observation Satellite Access
  
• Looking back on 20 years of Copernicus 
• "LoReTT" Complex is the development of the Russian engineering company "LoReTT"
  
• Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe Introduces EarthWatch, the Most Powerful Cloud-Based Commercial Product for Geospatial Information
• Maxar considering quitting GEO satellite manufacturing business. Maxar’s MDA Brings World-Leading Space Robotics and Sensor Capabilities to the United Kingdom. Maxar Technologies’ MDA Announces Acquisition of Neptec Design Group
  
• Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock
• PASCO Wins First Prize in Satellite Image Recognition Competition
  
• Planet Analytics Launched by Planet
• Planet trims workforce by “less than ten percent”
  
• Sinergise is the winner of the EARSC Company Achievement Award 2018
• Spatial businesses in Australia welcome the Australian Space Agency
• The World Bank and Singapore Land Authority Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote Greater Use of Geospatial Information and Technology for Sustainable Urban Development
• University of Redlands and Esri Partner to Shape Future ‘Spatial Transformers’
  
• WEkEO provides harmonized access to Copernicus data