“Some would also add the opportunities from the Internet of Things (IoT)/Machine-to-Machine (M2M) markets that are related to sensing the Earth in situ in remote locations, as well as observing and tracking ships, planes and trucks. In combination, these are also very sizeable markets. Overall, the Earth observation market is more than $10 billion, a multiple of just optical Earth imagery. It is this latter market that is particularly crowded and competitive, yet clearly still ripe with opportunities as new companies are getting funded.”

　　“还有的开发商会将物联网/机器-机器市场与地球实地和遥感探测联系起来获得机会，同时检查和跟踪船舶、飞机和货车。总之，还有很大规模的市场。总体上，地球观测市场超过100亿美元，是仅仅地球光学图像（市场）的数倍。正是前者市场，开发商众多和充满竞争，而且随着新公司得到资助，显然这个市场在机会中成熟。”

　　 ——近日，Spire公司副总裁Theresa Condor对全球地球观测（EO）市场进行了分析，他指出，EO经常被认为等同于地球图像，但地球图像的市场每年仅30亿美元，实际的EO市场则要大得多，包括了新的卫星红外观测系统和天气数据等，每年市场是图像市场的2倍，大约60亿美元。Condor还进行了上述深入和全面分析。