Best Companies for Remote Sensing Drone Services 2022

One of the top three drone remote-sensing companies made major headlines today. Terra Drone, based in Japan, has raised $14 million in Series C funding . How will this affect the 2023 rankings? We will find out towards the end o this year. In the meantime, here is a look at the latest rankings.

Based on our most recent analysis (at the end of 2022), the top 3 ranking remains unchanged from 2021, with AERODYNE GROUP , Terra Drone Corporation and Cyberhawk? at the top of the chart. In this category, the number one company Aerodyne also doubles the number of employees of second-place Terra Drone, which itself had accumulated US$85M of investment in 5 deals since its inception in 2016. After this latest investment, the gap between the top two companies will likely be even smaller than before (and it was already closing).

This pattern of competition also continues in the remainder of the ranking, where the competition is much tighter, and four companies managed to enter the top 10. Overall, seven (7) new companies entered the top 20, coming from various countries including Norway, Switzerland, Finland, and Canada. The Norwegian Nordic Unmanned saw the highest climb within the rankings, doubling its number of employees and increasing its rank by 5 spots to reach the top 5 into place 4.

In comparison to the best companies for drone delivery, the top remote sensing companies ranking can be broken down into a very competitive top 7, and an extremely-close environment in the rest of the top 20. In other words, there are a lot of great companies doing very good work with drones and revolutionizing how inspections and surveying (among other tasks) are carried out around the globe.

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