Defense & Security Shall Continue to be Primary Driver
January 02, 2011
Defence and Security: Defence and security has been and shall continue to be the primary driver of geospatial industry, especially in the United States. But its market size is growing significantly in emerging economies as well, pushing demand for GIS and high resolution satellite data. According to Adam Keith, Director-Earth Observa-tion, EuroConsult, "Presently, 65% of 1.1 billion commercialdata is procured for defence customers. This is especially true for US commercial operators DigitalGlobe and GeoEye which have bagged a 7.3 billion US$ deal for the next one decade." Many countries are working on setting up defence geospatial data infrastructure which may allow … (for full article, click on the above PDF)
