Global commodities broker Marex Spectron's new joint venture with international space company Earth-i will diversify its research arm by bringing "New Space" technologies to the forefront of the metals market.
Bolstered by a global commercial and governmental drive to widen the use of high-resolution satellite imagery and video analytics in mining, the collaboration aims to broaden Marex Spectron's datasets, with the goal of producing end-to-end analytics and insight products. The technology will initially focus on the copper market, with the goal of expanding across...