Aravind 🌍 🛰

In the latest @terrawatchspace deep dive, I look back at the EO market in the first half of 2025, covering: 📊 Total EO funding, by segment and region 📄 M&A activity and major contracts 🔮What to watch in H2: budgets, defense vs. civilian market dynamics & climate

This is one of the slides I shared during my opening note at EO Summit this year, showing how AI is starting to influence every part of the EO value chain - from Infrastructure to Applications. We are still in the early days of EO and AI coming together, but my conversations…

Loving the continuing open data rollouts from Earth observation satellite companies, this time from @planet for hyperspectral imagery from its Tanager birds. While this move might seem obvious for satellite-based hyperspectral imagery, especially to develop the nascent ecosystem…

Have thought about this a lot, especially in the context of publishing deep dives, newsletters and reports on Earth Observation - fewer humans, more machines will be reading them in the future.

That's quite a big hit in BlackSky's revenues due to uncertainty in the NRO budget.

I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote presentation as part of the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem session at LPS last month titled "The State of Earth Observation Platforms: Towards Data Fusion, AI-Readiness and Vertical Specialization." I discussed the evolution of EO…

Seeing the Tour de France pass by the street we live in (literally 50 meters away) is a special experience!

Almost seems unreal, but this is where we are at!