Planet Insights Platform Launched

Today, governments and businesses are facing immense challenges to reduce risk, lower costs, remain compliant, and optimize performance in a time of rapid global change. It is our belief that organizations require the ability to dynamically monitor, measure, and report on assets across space and time – look broader, backward, closer and deeper, to make sense and take action. That’s why we’re so excited to announce the Planet Insights Platform, the next milestone in our journey to provide multidimensional Earth insights.

The Planet Insights Platform is the all-in-one place for unifying our product portfolio and the power of Sentinel Hub, which we acquired last year. Combining our analysis-ready Earth data products with cloud-based analytics and tools will allow users to efficiently analyze, stream, and distribute data at scale, so they can make decisions reliably and with confidence. With the Planet Insights Platform, we’re enabling broad area management solutions that allow governments and businesses around the world to unlock Earth observation data, get answers, and remove friction.

New Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Intertidal Release

The Digital Earth Australia Intertidal product suite provides annual continental-scale elevation and exposure products for Australia’s intertidal zone, mapped at a 10 m resolution from our open-source Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite data.

DEA Intertidal products have been used across government and industry to help better characterise and understand this complex zone that defines the interface between land and sea.   

Our latest DEA Intertidal product suite adds new time series data for the intertidal zone, enabling users to better monitor and understand some of the most dynamic regions of Australia’s coastlines in multiple dimensions.

Call for Abstracts to the Australian Space Research Conference

The Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC) is the primary annual gathering of space scientists, engineers, educators, industry professionals, government representatives, and NGO personnel in the space sector in Australia.

It provides a unique platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and exploration of cutting-edge research and developments in the field of space science and technology.

ASRC2024 is co-hosted by the National Committee for Space and Radio Science and the National Space Society of Australia, in partnership with the Mars Society of Australia.

Event details:

• Date: September 2 - 5, 2024 (with additional events on the 1st and 6th)

• Location: Curtin University’s Bentley Campus, Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar boodja

For this year, our conference theme is Walking Together To Space. Celebrating Research, Empowering Diversity, and Catalyzing Collaboration In Australian Space Exploration.

We are hoping to have a strong Earth observation stream this year and we particularly invite all presenters to reflect on the questions of What voices are we not hearing? What questions are we not asking? in their presentations.

We look forward to receiving your contributions, and together shaping the Australian space landscape in positive directions. Please share this opportunity with your colleagues and students.

Continuity of Earth Observation Data for Australia: Risks Report Released

Earth observations (EO) from space can be considered as critical infrastructure that supports both Australian society and the economy. A clear understanding of risks to the access and supply of satellite EO is needed, recognising that it is a critical technology underpinning many essential services and commercial activities, as well as new and innovative research.

A new report, Continuity of Earth Observation Data for Australia: Risks (CEODA: Risks), provides a comprehensive assessment of the civil use of EO in government, research, and commercial applications and services in Australia.

The study identifies more than 170 government programs that are dependent on EO data, spanning environmental issues, natural resource management, water, agriculture, meteorology, forestry, emergency management, tsunami and flood modelling, compliance, mapping, and planning. Of these government programs, almost 80% have values up to $10 million each, and ¾ have a high dependency on EO data.

MIGARS 2024

The International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS) will be in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand from 8-10 April 2024.

MIGARS is a technically co-sponsored conference by IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and IEEE-Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).

MIGARS aims to bring together researchers, industry professionals, and students from around the world to share and showcase recent developments at the interface of machine learning, computational science, and remote sensing, and their implementations in agriculture, forestry, geosciences, and land and water monitoring from space.