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Q: Hello Pat and team: I would be interested in your thoughts on UrtheCast Corp (UR). Thanks.

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A: UrtheCast Corp., $1.27, symbol UR on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 104.7 million; Market cap: $150.9 million; www.urthecast.com), is a Vancouver-based technology company that serves the rapidly evolving geospatial and geoanalytics markets. The company operates Earth Observation sensors in space, including two satellites, Deimos-1 and Deimos-2. They produce imagery data that is displayed on UrtheCast’s web platform. The company also operates two cameras aboard the International Space Station. UrtheCast’s customers include governments and businesses that can use imagery to track the movement of cargo shipments and the development of crops and weather patterns, for example. With the technology, clients can see ships leaving ports in China and use that information to help determine trends in the movement of goods. Other clients use the technology to monitor farmers’ fields in the U.S. or the development of regional weather conditions. Through its subsidiary, Deimos Imaging, UrtheCast also processes and distributes imagery data and other products on behalf of the PanGeo Alliance. This is a network of…