NSW Imagery: Satellite and Aerial Photographs of New South Wales

New South Wales imagery provides a repository of satellite and aerial photographs covering the state of New South Wales, Australia. The collection includes LANDSAT® satellite imagery, 50cm orthorectified imagery, and high-resolution 10cm town imagery, maintained by Spatial Services (DCS). The web service is updated periodically when new imagery becomes available.

Use Cases

• Land cover classification based on multi-resolution satellite and aerial imagery.
• Urban planning and development analysis based on high-resolution 10cm town imagery.
• Environmental change detection based on time-series of LANDSAT® satellite imagery.
• Creating base maps for GIS applications based on orthorectified imagery.

Strengths

• Includes multiple imagery types: LANDSAT® satellite, 50cm orthorectified, and 10cm high-resolution town imagery.
• Coverage is statewide for New South Wales.
• The web service is updated periodically with new imagery.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS)

Collection Method

Imagery captured by AAM, VEKTA, and Jacobs (previously SKM) for various projects.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 00:10:07.344628; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia