Geospatial imagery analytics is an approach that applies statistical analysis and other informational analysis to the data, which either has a geographical or geospatial aspect. The information acquired is presented in the form of maps, statistical data, and infographics linked with images. The geospatial imagery analytics solutions and services are used to analyze the imagery collected from multiple collection mediums such as satellite, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or aircraft to provide actionable insights to its users. 360Quadrants has identified top 10 vendors in the geospatial imagery analytics market, as below:

Top 10 Geospatial Imagery Analytics Companies

  1. Hexagon AB
  2. DigitalGlobe
  3. UrtheCast Corporation
  4. Trimble
  5. Harris Corporation
  6. Google
  7. ESRI
  8. Satellite Imaging Corporation
  9. BAE Systems
  10. MDA Information Systems

Top Geospatial Imagery Analytics Features

Geospatial Imagery Analytics collects, processes and displays geographic information system (GIS) data and images that also include GPS and satellite photographs. They are typically used to design geographic models and data conceptions for more precise demonstrating and forecasts of trends. Some of the main features of the Geospatial Imagery Analytics Software include:

  1. Visible Imagery
  2. Panchromatic
  3. Multispectral
  4. Hyperspectral
  5. Mosaicking
  6. Orientation and Triangulation
  7. Object Detection
  8. Pansharpening
  9. Material Detection
  10. Image Classification
  11. Orthorectification

Top 10 New Entrants

These new entrants are the firms that have a great understanding of the latest technologies and trends, right from their inception. These companies may not be so widespread geographically, but they have offerings. These vendors are generally the ones who are beginning to emerge in terms of product portfolio and geographical coverage, and will need some time to gain traction in the market. Some of the emerging new entrants are:

  1. Keyw Corporation
  2. Critigen
  3. EOS Data Analytics
  4. Skylab Analytics
  5. SpaceKnow
  6. PrecisionHawk
  7. Rezatec Limited
  8. Ceres Imaging
  9. Planet Labs
  10. UrtheCast Corporation

COMPETITIVE LEADERSHIP MAPPING TERMINOLOGY

Vendor competitive leadership mapping provides information about the major vendors of geospatial imagery analytics and outlines the findings and analysis on how well each market vendor performs within our criteria. The vendor evaluations are based on two broad categories — Product Offering and Business Strategy. Each category carries various criteria, based on which the vendors will be evaluated. The evaluation criteria considered under product offering includes breadth and depth of product and service offering, product features and functionality, focus on product innovation, product quality & reliability. The evaluation criteria considered under business strategy includes reach (on the basis of geographic presence), industry coverage (on the basis of end users that the vendors cater to), and inorganic growth (on the basis of partnerships, collaborations, and acquisitions).

VISIONARY LEADERS

Vendors who fall into this category receive high scores for most of the evaluation criteria. They have strong and established product portfolios and a very strong market presence. They provide mature and reputable geospatial imagery analytics solutions and services and also have strong business strategies. The visionary leaders include Hexagon AB, DigitalGlobe, UrtheCast Corporation, Trimble, Harris Corporation, Google, and ESRI

DYNAMIC DIFFERENTIATORS

Planet labs and UrtheCast Corporation are recognized as dynamic differentiators in the geospatial imagery analytics market. These established vendors with very strong business strategies. They offer comparatively less products in the market.

INNOVATORS

Innovators in the MicroQuadrant are the vendors who have demonstrated substantial product innovations as compared to their competitors. They have very focused product portfolios. However, they do not have very strong growth strategies for their overall businesses. The innovator companies include Satellite Imaging Corporation, RMSI, Fugro N.V., MDA Information Systems, Orbital Insight, BAE Systems, WS Atkins, ImageSat International NV and Geocento

EMERGING COMPANIES

Keyw Corporation , Critigen , EOS Data Analytics, Skylab Analytics, SpaceKnow, PrecisionHawk, Rezatec Limited and Ceres Imaging are recognized as the emerging companies in Geospatial Imagery Analytics market. The emerging companies specialize in offering highly niche and tailor-made solutions and services to their clients. The majority of the emerging companies have been undertaking multiple projects and increasing their sales capabilities across regions to offer their integrated services to a wide range of clients.

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Hexagon AB is one of the world's leading IT software solutions provider in geospatial and industrial landscapes worldwide. Hexagon AB provides ERDAS IMAGINE solution which is offered within the PRODUCER SUITE of the Power Portfolio to maximize productivity with state of the art photogrammetric satellite and aerial image processing algorithm.
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Harris Corporation offers ENVI which is a flexible imagery and data analytics solution that can be customized to meet specific project needs and can be deployed and accessed from the desktop, on the cloud, and on mobile devices.
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Digital Globe is a wireless network planning for IoT solutions and a trusted geospatial partner for the world's leading telecommunication companies. The geospatial analytics provide an imagery source that can access and process the images faster and help businesses in accomplishing their tasks sooner. Digital Globe geospatial analytics brings the best content and a robust analysis together to extract meaningful insights. It provides flexible, cloud-based subscription access to the world's most comprehensive image library.
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Esri offers ArcGIS platform that provides contextual tools for mapping and spatial reasoning to explore data and share location-based insights. ArcGIS platform includes ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Mobile, ArcGIS for Server, and ArcGIS Online. Though ArcGIS provides various advantages by allowing to fuse data, predict status, and create spatially aware services to innovate, engage customers, and monetize data, it is a very expensive software and is not worth for small applications.
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The company also provides Google Maps, a web mapping service offering satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning. This service is also available for Android and iOS mobile devices. Google Earth provides a virtual globe, map, and geographical information program that maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Geographic Information System (GIS) onto a 3D globe.
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Trimble Inc geospatial analytics offers solutions that allow its customers to mark using high-quality, information exchange and productive workflows. The solutions provide drive value for a diverse and global customer base. The customers that are taking services of Trimble are GIS service companies, governments, transportation authorities, utilities, surveyors, and engineering. Trimble's geospatial solutions help customers in getting the most progressive tools in precision technology by using sensors, real-time communications, modelling, and analytics.
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These services range from land use planning, utility planning, urban and rural infrastructure planning using high-resolution imagery to forest mapping, watershed management, natural resource mapping, and mineral mapping using low-resolution imagery. The company is also focusing on improving its very high resolution airborne and satellite imagery and wide spectrum of imagery applications for geospatial data development and analysis.
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PlanetScope and RapidEye are the two imagery datasets provided by Planet Labs. These imagery datasets are created and delivered through a cloud-based platform. Planet Platform is the most advanced, cloudbased imagery platform which delivers daily, high-resolution imagery from planet’s satellites by making it accessible on the web, and furnishes the user with APIs and program based devices to rapidly discover and separate the data which is required.
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UrthePlatform is a cloud computing platform which enables users to access newly-collected, cost-effective data set of imagery collected by Deimos-1 satellite. UrtheCast also provides OptiSAR Constellation, the world’s first fully-integrated constellation of optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. The OptiSAR Constellation will consist of 16 satellites in two orbit planes. The constellation will capture imaging of the same location with SAR and optical satellites.
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BAE Systems is one of the leading intelligence analysis and geospatial imagery analytics software developers across the globe. You can now predict where and when a significant threat can happen to show up and its striking probability with the aid of geospatial imagery analytics and intelligence systems from BAE Systems. With the assistance of advanced software such as ABI or Activity Based Intelligence, you can use it as a fundamental tool to analyze threats and improve counter-operations likewise. With its assistance, warfighters can now counter dangerous operations every day such as IED threats, sudden ambushes, etc. with the amassed intelligence and surveillance from Geospatial Imager Analytics software.

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Orbital Insight GO is one of those advanced AI systems that can analyze satellite imagery petabytes on a huge global scale, thereby assisting clients with the data hedge funds as well as other businesses need. It is a super-intelligent artificial intelligence startup that has been able to dominate the market in contrast to its counterparts. Orbital Insight GO helps in developing geospatial imagery analytics software to produce data for unlocking latest social as well as economic trends at a large scale. It works by analyzing the satellite imagery or drone images petabytes. Improvising transformation in these data, it assists government agencies and NGOs to enhance business and make informed decisions.

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Atkins Group is one of the leading geospatial imagery analytics software that specializes in developing high-end streamlined imagery data. Atkins excels and pioneers in capturing as well as improving geospatial data. It also excels in the design of Geographical Information Systems or GIS. It helps in designing as well as developing geographical information software to assist clients in making the best of their spatial data. It helps them in taking advantage of the GIS benefits through professional support, advice, as well as maintenance services. 

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The survey segment provides a range of services to support the activities of the oil & gas industry and a broad range of commercial and civil industries, as well as governments and non-governmental organizations. The subsea services segment provides underwater support services to the oil & gas, marine, construction, and renewable energy sectors. The geoscience segment provides products & services associated with collecting, processing, interpreting, managing, and storing geophysical and geological data.
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In imaging systems, the company delivers the highest quality images captured through processing. Moreover, the company also offers a suite of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions deployed from an advanced sensor delivery platform. It includes proprietary products, including electro-optical, hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar sensors, and other products that are manufactured and integrated with hardware and software to meet the unique and evolving intelligence mission requirements.
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Regardless of whether you’re a professional imagery accessor or an amateur just looking to glance at satellite images, Geocento Geospatial Imagery Analytics software is the exact technology you’re looking for. It is by far the most superior independent satellite imagery analytics developers with committed services and unrivalled imagery analytics. It improves online application integrating APIs that assists users in accessing the tools they require for locating and selecting satellite imagery from both new acquisitions as well as old archives. Its groundbreaking feature EarthImages assists in matching accessor to the data that fulfill their requirements and that too fitting into both their budget and purposes.
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MDA Information Systems is one of the groundbreaking geospatial imagery analytics software that is known to develop high-end geospatial imagery analytics software. It delivers essential software, informational products, as well as distinct technical expertise for enabling organizations in improvising smart decisions while diminishing risks. Regardless of whether you are using it for commercial operations or government applications, MDA helps in accessing real-time acquisition of data and helps to track advanced fusion of geospatial images, exploitation, as well as for analytics. It helps in performing superior intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance operations. MDA resells optical as well as synthetic aperture radar images from its RADARSAT-2 and renowned DigitalGlobe satellites.
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Space know systems is a company which deals with the potential of Geospatial analysis. It provides insights into the financial market, global economy, and distinct business activities. It also deals with AI-powered devices that aid in satellite imagery analytics. 

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It also offers customers highly accurate digital model or 3D representation of a terrain's surface to serve multiple objectives, such as supporting engineering designs; construction activities; and mining, geological, and environmental surveys. It serves various verticals such as commercial, education, hospitality, healthcare, sustainability, leisure, and manufacturing & industrial.
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Imagesat International NV or iSi is one of the most dedicated and revolutionary geospatial imagery analytics software. They have pioneered the geospatial imagery industry for decades. Amassed with decades of unparalleled geospatial analytics experience, advanced skills and unmatched innovation integrated with robust technology, it delivers incredible geospatial data, exclusive insights along with cutting edge space-focused imaging solutions. It helps you to analyze data following your interest with the aid of space-based EROS high-resolution satellites. It also addresses your homeland security interests and intelligence requirements with actionable insights through high-resolution cameras that aids in the tasking of ongoing satellites.

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CARTODB is one of the revolutionary and record-breaking geospatial imagery analytics software committed to providing you with the best insights. You can now solve all your spatial problems through the aid of groundbreaking data as well as analysis. Due to the unprecedented data and intelligence, CARTODB is known to be a leading intelligence platform across the globe. This company is superior in providing insights to you, be it for faster delivery routes, planned store location, or any targeted campaign. It does all the work through data ingestion, enrichment of data, analysis, integrations as well as solutions along with visualization. It helps in speeding up everything through accessing top-notch spatial analysis.

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Rezatec Limited is a Geospatial Imagery Analytics Software. This software performs to show the Earth's observations, remote sensing, and many other operations. This software is a product of REZATEC Company. This software only works in the United Kingdom. It also facilitates the service of Data Monitoring. This software helps to solve the problems of Agriculture Management and Forestry Management. This software is the most dedicated software in the United Kingdom towards Geospatial Imagery Analytics software.
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Critigen is known for its unmatched problem-solving capabilities in the field of Geospatial visualization and data analytics. The company deals with developments in the field of geospatial analytics, GIS foundations, Data analytics, Lemur, which is more than just mapping the data and much more to surprise us.

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Are you aware that observation satellites surveilling around the Earth daily captures approximately images counting to 7 trillion pixels? However, most of these unprecedented accumulated data is not analyzed. Skylab Analytics does that. It examines the information for finding distinct trends, anomalies and well as helps in correlating it with other external data sources, thereby providing cutting edge answers to all your business requirements. Skylab integrates advanced science, modern AI, and advanced machine learning along with computer vision for delivering actionable planned insights. They work with many airborne and spaceborne data companies and sensor technology organizations.

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PecisionHawk is a Geospatial Imagery Analytics Software is one of the most revolutionary geospatial imagery analytics software. This software is related to drone service. PRECISIONHAWK software is a product of PRECISIONHAWK Company. This company is one of the leading companies from drone services. This software can analyze the position and posture of the drone, which helps them to make stability in their work. This software helps to support your drone program and provides some extraordinary features to it. This software is specially used for business purposes. 

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