Market Watch "at glance"

October 2016

Market

A Look At "Big Data" In Earth Observations Markets Scrutinized By NSR
Airbus Defence and Space Invests in Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery from 2020 Onwards
$250 Billion to Manufacture & Launch 1,450 Satellites Over Next Ten Year
DigitalGlobe to acquire The Radiant Group
DigitalGlobe's Basemap Suite Expands to Include 250 Million Square Kilometers of 30 cm Imagery
Digital mapping firm HERE wants new investor by year-end
DigitalGlobe to Acquire The Radiant Group, Leading Provider of Advanced Geospatial Solutions to the U.S. Intelligence Community
DigitalGlobe Now Targeting Late October or Early November for WorldView-4 Satellite Launch
Earth on AWS Call for Proposals
Earth on AWS: A Home for Geospatial Data on AWS
Esri becomes Ambassador of NOAA and Weather-Ready Nation
GAF Operationally Provides Ocean Colour Data to ESA
GeoOptics Talks Benefits of Commercial Weather Contract with NOAA
Google rebrands cloud business to compete with Amazon, Microsoft
Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views
How Democratized Earth Observation Data Can Radically Change Environmental Debates
MDA to provide RADARSAT-2 information to Orbital Insight
MDA announces board and senior executive appointments to enable US Access Plan implementation
Mining A New Partnership
NASA Awards $130 Million Landsat 9 Contract to Orbital ATK
NGA Growing in Acceptance of Satellite Imagery Startups
NSR: Smallsat Market to More than Double Over Next Decade
Orbital ATK awarded contract to extend Landsat mission
“One Atlas” – Airbus Defence and Space Launches World’s Freshest Satellite Image Library
Satellite-based earth observation market size and business growth report scrutinized in new research
Sentinel Hub wins Copernicus Masters prize
Significant supply expansion for EO industry
Spire CEO: We are Launching Satellites Every Month
Successful launch of BlackSky satellite
Terra Bella’s Four New SkySat Satellites Send Back First Pictures
Terra Bella & Spaceflight Industries Sign The Big Bird To Launch Small Imaging Satellites
TerraGo Edge Delivers Again with Customer-Driven Enhancements to ArcGIS and Platform Integration, Mobile Forms, Drone Imagery and More
Thales Alenia Space Spain Sees Red...To Make Infrared Earth Observation For ESA
Trimble changes name to reflect company’s technology evolution
Two companies win first NOAA commercial weather contracts
What Radiant acquisition means for DigitalGlobe
White House releases $50M for smallsats
White House Announces $50 Million Investment in Smallsats

Earth Observation – Future missions & payloads
Global Satellite-based Earth Observation Market Analysis 2016 Forecasts to 2021
OECD Report: Space and innovation: the next frontier
Research Report explores the China Satellite-based Earth Observation Market 2016-2021
Remote Sensing Detector Market - Industry Trends, Key Players, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Cost and Revenue
Satellite-based Earth Observation Surge To Drive $35B In Manufacturing
Trends & Prospects for Emerging Space Programs
+91% CAGR for small satellite market to register USD 5.32 billion by 2021, according to latest research report

A Resolution Of An Even Higher Order Is Verified For KOMPSAT-3A
Airbus weather satellite MetOp-A notches up 10 years
Airbus Defence and Space-built PerúSAT-1 delivers first images
Agreement between EuroGeographics and the European Environment Agency (EEA)
Brazilian parliament approves joint satellite mission
Copernicus' Accelerated Bootcamp
DLR and CNES sign an agreement for the construction and operation of the MERLIN environmental satellite
East View Brings Iranian Cartographic Data Online via New Digital Platform
EU Commission sketches out the route to next research programme
EU new space policy encourages companies to use space data
EUMETSAT and DLR signed a cooperation agreement for the development of the METimage instrument
Geoscience Australia to distribute Copernicus data in Australia over AARNet
GÖKTÜRK-1A Has A December 5th Vega Propulsion Date With Arianespace
How satellite imagery helped Indian forces conduct surgical strike in PoK?
Iran Signed Deal on Remote Sensing Satellite Signed with Russia
IST celebrates WSW to create awareness on outer space
ISRO has plans to go small with lighter satellites
Japan to Export Earth Observation Satellite to Vietnam
NASA’s Next Ocean Monitoring Spacecraft to be Built at Goddard
Next Generation Architectures for Earth Observation Data
NOAA Invests $6 Million to Speed use of New Research and Technologies to Improve Severe Weather Forecasts
Pakistan to launch remote sensing satellite in 2018
Peru releases 1st images from satellite
Proba-1 satellite still going strong after 15-year observation period
Sentinel-3A Earth colour data released
Southland's earth observation institute still in the running for government funding
Three CEOs from the HBR 100 list who influenced geospatial industry
Turkey ready to produce new satellites for Azerbaijan
Vietnam to launch home-made satellites for earth observation

5 Takeaways from this Year’s World Satellite Business Week
Airbus weather satellite MetOp-A notches up 10 years
Azercosmos to join AfricaCom
Commercial geospatial imaging companies: UAVs are sideshows, satellites the main event
Drones and Robots: Revolutionizing Farms of the Future
e2v wins contract to supply customised image sensors for weather satellites to Leonardo-Finmeccanica
Esri to Donate Free Software to Winners of EPA Smart City Air Challenge
GSDI 15 Grants for Developing Country Participants
Google Search Science Datasets Schema – Will it change the way how data is found?
KARI Taps Thales Alenia Space for South Korean Augmentation Satellite System
Leidos gets $777 million worth of GIS contract from the US army
Orbital Insight Measures China Oil Supply With Satellite Imagery Analysis
Rwanda Launches World’s First National Drone Delivery Service
SpaceX to Launch Terra Bella Satellites Through Spaceflight Industries
Terra Bella and Spaceflight Industries sign agreement for Falcon 9 launch for small imaging satellites