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There are two distinct ways in which the commercial world is involved in observing the earth from space. One way is for a commercial company to build an earthobserving satellite and sell the images to anyone willing to pay for them - whether they are in the public or the private sector. Companies such as GeoEye, Digital Globe and SPOT Image fall into this category.
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Norris, P. (2010). Commercial surveillance: mapping on a large scale. In: Watching Earth from Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6938-5_4
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