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Editor in chief Joe Francica interviews Jill Smith, CEO of DigitalGlobe on January 20, 2011 while both attended the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India. Ms. Smith discusses the challenges to growth of the commercial satellite industry, the need of DigitalGlobe to continue offering new services, not just data, to provide real insights and information from raw satellite imagery. She provided her prospects for DigitalGlobe to sustain aggressive growth and how that will be accomplished with an expanded business model.
Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.