DEA news and updates
Satellite imagery at work in our community
Last updated:18 June 2024
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The new Digital Earth Australia Intertidal product suite captures Australia’s dynamic coastal regions in unprecedented detail.
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Learning from the past and planning for the future. Using Earth observation products and tools in the fight to achieve global food security.
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The channels are always changing on the way to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia where recent heavy rains have seen flood plains filled in central Australia.
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Digital Earth Australia's Tech Alerts: Info on product and data outages, updates & releases.
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The Knowledge Hub brings together our User Guides, Data Product information, DEA Notebooks, and more into one central location.
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Looking to the past to protect the future: Landsat-based Earth observation products and tools informing water security initiatives around the world.
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How leading-edge Landsat based Earth observation products and tools are helping us to understand Africa’s and Australia’s coastlines.
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Landsat 9 data has been validated, calibrated, and adjusted for Australian conditions for easy analysis across the entire continent.
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Practitioners managing the wellbeing of wetlands have a new tool at their disposal. The Wetland Insight Tool (WIT), developed by Geoscience Australia, provides a visual summary of 35+ years of wetland dynamics.
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Over the two decades he's worked in remote sensing, Norman has seen Earth observations go from on-request DVD mailouts to distributed, instant big data and time series analysis.
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EOCSI is an initiative led by Australia’s national science and geoscience agencies, CSIRO and Geoscience Australia to support the growth and implementation of Earth Observation (EO) -based products and services in South East Asia.
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Now includes 2021 data, plus new coverage of the Great Barrier Reef, the Torres Strait and northwest WA offshore reefs and islands.
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Collection 3 uses the same raw data as the previous collection, but it's processed and packaged in a more accurate and accessible way.
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The Digital Earth Australia Roadmap sets out our vision, mission and strategic objectives for the years ahead.
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DEA Cal/Val scientists deploy drones in Far North Queensland to construct an accurate topographical map of an artificial wetlands terrain while exchanging knowledge with the Wanjuri people.
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Earth observation (EO) organisations and emergency services have a long history of cooperation and knowledge sharing.
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Belle creates amazing artwork in the process of doing her job. She gets a kick out of it every time.
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Our satellite data providers are making changes that may impact you
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We're upgrading our Landsat products to a new version that may impact some users.
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Geoscience Australia has taken part in a global campaign to compare data from the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites during a rare underfly.
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A unique collaboration between Geoscience Australia and a Ngambri-Wiradjuri firefighter is launching two Aboriginal totems into the sky.
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Satellite data is an untapped resource in Australia’s mining and METS sector, finds this report from FrontierSI.
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This Earth observation scientist is diving deep into satellite data to better understand Australia’s wetlands.
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Digital Earth Australia is proud to work with artist Grayson Cooke, whose interpretation of Landsat satellite imagery is opening up new perspectives on our planet.
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Digital Earth Australia has partnered with FrontierSI to deliver a strategy for improving the uptake of satellite imagery.
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The DEA Open Data Cube receives Outstanding Digital Platform of the Year.
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Mapping Australia’s progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Digital Earth Australia provides seed funding to help farmers get the most from satellite imagery.
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The Digital Earth Australia team have created the first 3D model of Australia’s entire coastline.
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DEA satellite data helps reveal the Great Barrier Reef’s sea floor in never-before-seen detail.
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Mapping 50,000 km of Australian coast with three decades of Landsat data.
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Digital Earth Australia data is supporting studies into threatened and migratory species.
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Satellite data maps of Australian waterbodies are fuelling a more confident flightpath for Victoria’s CFA.
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Thirty years of Landsat data maps the nationwide movement and migration of Australia’s mangrove forests.
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Satellite data is providing new perspectives on wetlands, say these leaders.
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The algorithm behind our DEA Fractional Cover data product turns complex satellite image capture sensitivities into simple colours for easy interpretation.
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Cibo Labs depends on DEA data to help graziers manage more than 20 million hectares productively and sustainably.
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The partnership between Geoscience Australia and the USGS Landsat program meant satellite imagery was on-hand to assist responders during Australia’s 2019–20 bushfires.
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The CEMS agreement between Australia and the European Union gives emergency services ‘radar vision’.
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Digital Earth Australia datasets have helped raise New South Wales’ capacity for water governance by 500 per cent.