Coastal Imaging Research Network (CIRN) Boot Camp and Workshop
This year, the Coastal Imaging Research Network (CIRN) Boot Camp and Workshop will be held back-to-back at the Water Research Laboratory, UNSW Sydney, Australia. WRL is the modern birthplace of Coastal Engineering in Australia, providing a wide range of consulting and research services since 1959. WRL introduced Coastal Imaging to Australia as part of the Gold Coast Narrowneck Reef in ~2000. Today WRL operates cameras along over 35km of Gold Coast Beaches as well as research sites at Narrabeen-Collaroy, one of the longest routinely monitored beaches in the world.
There is a no cost to attend the bootcamps (Oct 21-22) or CIRN Workshop (Oct 23-25). See descriptions of both events below. Registration is required to attend any the events. A limited virtual option will be available for some events but does require registration. Please note that food, accommodation and transport are not provided. All attendees are expected to cover their own costs.
1 CIRN Bootcamp: Oct 21-22, 2024
The boot camp (Oct 21-22) will provide both the background and hands-on experience in working with coastal imaging for new users. The specific topics of the 2 days are still being decided based on facilitator availability.
We expect 1 day to be a Bootcamp for CoastSat satellite imagery toolbox.
The second day may include options for Planet imagery analysis, UAVs, or other topics.
2 CIRN Workshop: Oct 23-25, 2024
The CIRN workshop (Oct 23-25) will focus on showcasing innovative research on coastal imaging systems and coastal imaging tools utilizing remotely sensed observations. All attendees, especially students, are encouraged to present in this informal environment. Those wishing to present, please include your presentation title in your registration. There will also be planned time for discussion around CiRN activities.
Grants now open to support a Future Made in Australia
Grants of up to $5 million to help innovative startups and high-growth small and medium businesses (SMEs) to commercialise their big ideas are now available through the Industry Growth Program (IGP), a part of the Albanese Government’s a Future Made in Australia agenda.
The IGP grants will translate more world-leading Australian know-how into viable businesses, growing the pipeline of investment-ready projects for the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund to consider.
These grants will provide targeted support for SMEs across the NRF’s seven priority areas to overcome the challenges associated with growing and scaling up through two grant streams:
Early-Stage Commercialisation grants from $50,000 to $250,000 to help establish the commercial viability of an innovative product, process, or service.
Commercialisation and Growth grants from $100,000 to $5 million to help push ideas from prototyping through to market readiness stages. Grants will help develop strategies for entry to market and scaling up into national and international markets.
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.
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.