Market Watch "at glance"

September 2016

Market

• $250 Billion to Manufacture & Launch 1,450 Satellites Over Next Ten Year

• Airbus Defence and Space invests in very high-resolution satellite imagery from 2020 onwards

•  Airbus Defence and Space's PerúSAT-1 satellite ready for take-off  

• Airbus Defence And Space Plans Pléiades Super Satellite Imagery

• Airbus Defence and Space Expands German Satellite Manufacturing Plant

• Building Big Data Earth: Google, Planet Add More Imaging Satellites

• Descartes Labs, the Start-up That Watches Corn Grow, From Orbit  
•  DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 Inclusions Developed By Orbit Logic   
•  DigitalGlobe’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program renewed 
•  Earth observation manufacturing, data markets continue expansion 
• Earth observation data: Multibillion-dollar opportunity — or dud?
• East View Secures Agreement with Norwegian Mapping Authority
• Ecometrica agrees tie-up with the University of Edinburgh
•  European Space Imaging announces new partnership with Vricon to provide high-res 3D geodata products
• FSS capacity market value forecast to reach $14 billion by 2025
• Geospatial on AWS – How can you use Amazon Web Services? 
•  Global Commercial Drone Market By Type
• Industry remains optimistic about continued growth of cubesats
  
• Intermap Chooses Global Mapper for Enterprise-Wide Spatial Data Production
•  Intermap’s $2.6 Million Mapping Services Contract Expanded to $4.2 Million
• Hera Systems and NASA Enter into Space Act Agreement 
•  Launching New Public-Private Partnership and Announcing Joint Declaration on Leveraging Open Data for Climate Resilience 
• Leidos gets $777 million worth of GIS contract from the US army
• MDA to provide RADARSAT-2 information to Orbital Insight

• New capabilities, new entrepreneurialism and rekindled dreams are making space exciting again, says Oliver Morton
  

• NOAA Selects GeoOptics and Spire for Commercial Weather Satellite Data Purchase
• OGSystems Announces First Strategic Partnership in the BlueGlass Platform
• Opportunities and Challenges in Emerging Applications for UV, Visible & IR Remote Sensing
• PCI Geomatics and PrecisionHawk Enter into Long Term Partnership  
• Planet Hosts European Union Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska at San Francisco Headquarters  
  
• Quantum Spatial to acquire high resolution LiDAR data for NOAA
• SpaceNet on AWS 
• Surrey Satellite and NanoRacks Teaming for Deployment of 100-kilogram-class Satellites from the International Space Station
• TerraColor Australia and New Zealand Landsat 8 Mosaics Released  
  
•  ULA's Launch For DigitalGlobe Will Bring Our Globe Into Better View  
  
• USGS-NASA Pecora award recognizes excellence in earth observation
•  VisionMap Partners with Special Operations Solutions, LLC
• Vricon gets GSA contract to support the Army Geospatial Center     
• Why satellite imaging next big thing