Market Watch "at glance"

May 2017

Market

• Airbus creates new commercial drone services start-up "Airbus Aerial"
• Airbus Defence and Space and Russia's Scanex to Provide EO Images With No Security or Privacy Compromises

• SA space agency, Airbus launch challenge to find new uses for satellite data

• Atos Uses Big Data to Drive Next-Generation Farming

• Cloud-Free Images Released by PlanetObserver with Up-To-Date Geographic Info

• Earth-i aims to become world’s most advanced commercial imaging services provider

• Earth-i plans space video network 

• Future of Big Data, IoT and Cloud in Geospatial Industry

•   MDA views DigitalGlobe merger as hedge against cyclical satellite market 
  

• MDA Seeks to Diversify Into Earth Imagery Market Via DigitalGlobe Merger
• MDA-DigitalGlobe M&A Deal Focused on Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation Services
• Orbital Insight invests $50M in satellite and drone imagery analysis business
• PCI Geomatics Expands Business Partner Network in Central America
• Radiant.Earth: The gateway to EO data for development organizations

•  UK start-up aims to provide super-sharp images of planet