Earth Observation in Australia Community Survey 2026

Reflecting on ten years of the Australian Earth Observation Community Plan, and shaping the priorities and time horizon for the next community strategy.

The Australian Earth Observation Community Plan 2026 (the Plan) set out a ten-year vision for Australia's Earth Observation (EO) sector, built from a 2016 community survey and organised around five priority areas: connection and coordination; Australia's role in the international EO community; infrastructure and people; access to EO data and services; and generating value.

As that Plan reaches the end of its ten-year horizon, Earth Observation Australia (EOA) is running this survey on behalf of the Australian EO community. Whether or not you've been involved in the Plan, we want to know what's worked, what hasn't, and where a next strategy should focus.

This survey is open to anyone who produces, processes, distributes, or uses Earth Observation data or services in Australia, across governments, industry, research, community organisations and education. You don't need to know anything about the existing Plan to take part; your everyday experience of the sector is exactly what we're after.

Time to complete: approximately 15–20 minutes

Confidentiality: responses are anonymous unless you choose to provide an email address for follow-up. Any quotes used in the resulting report will be de-identified.

How we'll use this: EOA will publish a report summarising responses, and use it, on the community's behalf, to help decide the priorities and structure of any next strategy.

Where a question was also asked in the 2016 survey that shaped the original Plan, this is noted; it lets us compare how the community's experience has changed over the past decade.