Thursday, August 6th, 2015
China plans to launch its first commercial satellite remote sensing satellite in October. The Jilin-1 satellite constellation will have four satellites with different sensors, one for high-definition images, two for video and one for testing new space...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014
Many reports in the Chinese media have indicated that Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce site that is on an investment spree, will team with State-owned China North Industries Group to promote the commercial uses of the Beidou navigation...
Sunday, September 15th, 2013
The Chinese government, which over the past 20 years has been one of the world’s biggest markets for commercial Earth observation satellite imagery, has achieved autonomy in medium-resolution imagery and expects to reach that goal in submetric...
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is considering a “freemium” business model as a way of ensuring free public access to a multi-sourced database of land imagery of “national significance”. Under the suggested scheme, relatively low-quality imagery would...
