I received the Quarterly Newsletter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Private Sector Liaison Group, which is edited by Microsoft’s Bill Gail. This quarterly newsletter aims to point out the business opportunities in the remote sensing market.

The following excerpt points to the scope and promise of remote sensing for sustainability:

If trends can be discerned by “follow the money”, sustainability is rapidly becoming a major motivator for remote sensing systems and applications.  Environmental sustainability is no longer simply about “green” or “eco-friendly” – it is fundamental to the economic viability and national security of every nation, with a total annual global market size approaching $1 trillion.

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