Digital Earth Australia: Satellite-Based Environmental Change Tracking

Digital Earth Australia (DEA) is a national analysis platform for Earth observation satellite data developed by the Australian Government. DEA processes and presents satellite imagery to track changes across Australia, identifying phenomena like soil erosion, crop growth, and water quality changes. It builds on the award-winning Australian Geoscience Data Cube, developed through partnerships with Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, and NCRIS-supported NCI.

Use Cases

• Monitor soil and coastal erosion based on satellite imagery analysis
• Track crop growth and agricultural potential using Earth observation data
• Assess water quality changes from processed satellite data
• Analyze urban and regional development changes from satellite imagery

Strengths

• Based on a globally recognized innovation, the Australian Geoscience Data Cube, which won the 2016 Content Platform of the Year award
• Developed as a partnership between Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, and the National Computational Infrastructure

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Processing and interrogation of Earth observation satellite data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 04:31:59.056174; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia