Per speakers at a business conclave during the ongoing 58th International Astronautical Congress in India:
The size of the geographical information system (GIS) market in India is expected to be $10 billion in 10 years...
Annual revenues of the global GIS market are expected to grow from an estimated $4 billion to $150 billion in the next decade.
Also of note, points made by Barbara Ray (corrected per note and some research, was a USGS Liaison, not sure of current position, though) of USGS, even as the US figures out the Landsat continuity plan:
Barbara Ray of US Geological Survey said public-private partnership could unleash the power of land remote sensing. "Land cover information is a largely untapped resource and will need continued access to land remote sensing assets," she said.
She also called for developing simpler tools to help unleash the power of land cover and other types of information. "By developing simpler tools
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Economic Times
