ASPRS Ten-Year Remote Sensing Industry Forecast: Phase VI

The ASPRS Ten-Year Remote Sensing Industry Forecast began in 1999 with the goal of providing the remote sensing-based geospatial industry with an iterative, phased snapshot of key qualitative and quantitative metrics over time. The primary intent of Phase VI of the Forecast is to provide additional information about the industry in response to questions elicited by the results of the first five phases. In particular, Phase VI extended its inquiries into the areas of workforce issues, technology trends, information needs by users, and trends in U.S. leadership in the geospatial industry. Phase VI of the ASPRS Ten-Year Remote Sensing Industry Forecast developed a two prong approach to information gathering on the current issues of the industry. This approach consists of a Gross Revenue Survey (GRS) of private sector firms and an internet survey of individual members. This report summarizes the results and conclusions of these two separate, but complimentary data collection components. The Executive Summary of this report will address both the GRS and the internet survey results and conclusions. The specific methodology and results of each of the information components will be described in detail in later sections.