Technological Trends in Remote Sensing
Significant technological advances and substantial reductions in the costs of operating satellites, launch services, supporting infrastructure, data storage and transmission technologies have led to a dramatic rise in the availability of satellite imagery for civilian use in recent years. This rise in availability of satellite imagery stems from a larger number of satellites launched into orbit by space agencies from many countries of the world and some private companies.
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25 MAY 2021
Charles Sturt signs MoU between University s AgriPark and Geoscience Australia s Digital Earth Australia to enable sharing of database of satellite images for research and education to grow agriculture industries.
Charles Sturt’s AgriPark signs a Memorandum of
Understanding with Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia
The University will help Digital Earth Australia use
its database of satellite images for research and education to underpin growth
in Australia’s agricultural industries
The MoU allows for the collaborative development of research,
courses, conferences and learning materials
Charles Sturt University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia program for a collaborative partnership through the University’s AgriPark.
April 15, 2021
The evolution of Australia’s coastlines can now be seen in unprecedented scale and detail, via a new tool developed by Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia (DEA) program. Using satellite imagery collected since 1988, DEA Coastlines maps annual changes to Australia’s coastlines to highlight long-term trends in coastal erosion and growth.
The free online tool can also illustrate how natural coastal features like sandbanks or river mouths shift and change over time.
Geoscience Australia’s National Earth and Marine Observations Branch Head Maree Wilson said DEA Coastlines provides scientists, managers, and policymakers with new information to maintain and protect Australia’s iconic shores for future generations.
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A MULTIMEDIA work Open Air has won collaborating artists Dr Grayson Cooke of Southern Cross University and Emma Walker the 2020 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.
This visual music project set to the 2013 album ‘Open’ by Australian cult band The Necks combines time-lapse Landsat satellite imagery of Australia from Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia project and videography by SCU Associate Professor, together with aerial macrophotography of paintings by Ms Walker.
The resulting work encapsulates the vastly different forms of aerial earth imaging to produce a complex picture of a changing planet.
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize is Australia’s premier biennial natural science art prize.
The judges said of Grayson and Emma’s work:
The work is a synthesis of the Australian landscape and artistic practice. Both are examined individually and then woven together in such a skillful way as to make it challenging to distinguish which is landscape and which is art. The images are then bound further together by a mesmerizing soundtrack. By bringing natural science and art together so seamlessly makes this a worthy winner of the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize 2020.
When asked how it felt to be named the Open Category winner Grayson Cooke said winning this prize couldn’t be a more perfect accolade for this work with Emma Walker, adding it was not so much about winning this prize but the fact that Open Air had been given the honour of such recognition.