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Australia, through CSIRO and Geoscience Australia (GA), will follow the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to become the next 2-year Chair of the Strategic Implementation Team (SIT) of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) from November 2019 – a major effort for us on the international stage. Our Centre for Earth Observation […]

From 25 to 29 March, CSIRO hosted a group of Earth observation researchers in Perth for the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Calibration Validation (WGCV) Infrared and Visible Optical Sensors (IVOS) Sub-Working Group Plenary meeting. The IVOS Mission is to ensure high quality calibration and validation of infrared and visible optical […]

On 13-14 March 2019, over 30 CSIRO Earth Observation (EO) scientists and practitioners met in Canberra for the EO Science Symposium to learn, share, engage and connect across our CSIRO EO community of practice. Keynote external speakers spoke about the Australian Space Agency, Defence space capabilities, and Digital Earth Australia. Several staff members gave presentations […]

A French delegation led by the French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frederique Vidal, visited Australia 26-29 February 2019 to attend the JSTM (French-Australian Joint Science and Technology Meeting) held in Canberra, and to strengthen the scientific collaboration between France and Australia with a number of agreements signed between the two countries. The […]

Boeing and CSIRO announced, on 27 February 2019, 20 new joint research projects for this year, making this the largest research portfolio in the history of their research and development relationship. The new agreement includes four new joint space technology research projects, one of which involves on-board image processing and analytics for Earth observation satellites. […]

CSIRO, is investing $35M in frontier research in Space Technology and Artificial Intelligence. CSIRO news: https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/CSIRO-invests-35M-in-future-of-space-and-AI-for-Australia Minister for Industry, Science and Technology media release: https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/karenandrews/media-releases/csiro-invests-35m-space-and-artificial-intelligence

The first images from the new NovaSAR-1 satellite – over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, as well as over Cairo and the Pyramids – have just been received. CSIRO Scope: Sydney Harbour as seen from space – it’s not just black and white SSTL: SSTL releases first images from S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar […]

GEOWeek2018, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) XV Plenary meeting, was held from 29 October to 2 November in Kyoto, Japan. Bringing together practitioners, policy experts and decision makers, the theme was “Supporting a Resilient an Sustainable World”. The Australian delegation comprised of Dr Alex Held and Jennifer Zhu from the CCEO, along with colleagues […]

The 32nd Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Plenary Meeting was held in Brussels, Belgium, over 16-18 October 2018. Nearly 100 attendees from country space agencies discussed how to contribute to the advancement of space-based Earth Observation community efforts. The CCEO and CSIRO was represented by Dr Alex Held, Jennifer Zhu and Dr Cindy Ong, […]

Earth Observation (EO), combined with modern data processing and big data analytics technologies such as cloud-computing, offers unprecedented opportunities to assist with rapid decision-making and inform policy. EO data is an important tool for Pacific countries in particular to decide how best to manage surveillance of maritime activities, food security and sustainability of land and […]