I would estimate to get into the US market fast and with a sales...

I would estimate to get into the US market fast and with a sales team attached it would be somewhere between $10-25m. So us a shareholders don't need to put more cash in.

What you have here is a fantastic deal

You get North American exposure much quicker than what is possible with a start-up with the largest established player. They already have paying customers in the US$73bn market.

These customers will no doubt want even higher quality images for certain applications and these customers will be able to strike up a deal that would leverage the superior image capture rate for applications such as 3D mapping of cities.

Spookfish receives considerable cashflow from the royalties.

I see that EagleView will acquire Spookfish not just to acquire the rest of the shares it doesn't own and stop paying a royalty for North American sales. It will acquire Spookfish for access to the Australian market alone.