Accurate water accounting is an important tool to manage our precious water resources in the dry Australian climate. Understanding the volumes of water extracted and stored in farm dams can assist with on-farm and catchment management. The WaterSENSE […]
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Another summer, another drought. Sydney’s water storages are running on empty, and desalinisation plants are being dusted off. Elsewhere, shrunken rivers, lakes and dams are swollen with rotting fish. Governments, irrigators and environmentalists blame each other for the drought, or just blame […]
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Remote sensing data is being trialled by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to track an environmental flow through the Barwon–Darling Rivers. The flow, which was coordinated by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and NSW Office of Environment and […]
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Flood-related disasters take a significant number of human lives globally, besides causing substantial economic damage amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars per event. In low or middle-income countries, these disasters are largely due to underdeveloped flood warning […]
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New study uses detailed satellite observations to estimate evaporation from irrigation, water bodies and wetlands worldwide. A good part of our global surface and groundwater resources evaporates from wetlands, water bodies and irrigated areas. Some of this so-called ‘secondary’ […]
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TERN OzFlux is a national ecosystem research network set up to provide the Australian and global ecosystem modelling communities with nationally consistent observations of energy, carbon and water exchange between the atmosphere and key Australian ecosystems. TERN OzFlux […]
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Dear Australian EO Community, We’re very happy to announce that from today, Wednesday 8 November 2017, AEOCCG will transition to “Earth Observation Australia” to formally implement the Australian Earth Observation Community Coordination Plan. All of the materials previously on […]
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The job of monitoring Earth’s carbon cycle and humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions is increasingly supported from above, thanks to the terabytes of data pouring down to Earth from satellites. Five papers published in Science today provide data from NASA’s Orbiting […]
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Australia will create its own space agency in an attempt to cash in on a $420 billion aeronautical industry and create thousands of new jobs. Most developed nations have a space agency, including New Zealand, and there are concerns Australia […]
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Rockets, astronomy and humans on Mars: there’s a lot of excited talk about space and what new discoveries might come if Australia’s federal government commits to expanding Australia’s space industry. But one space industry is often left out of the conversation: Earth […]
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An independent report into allegations of water theft and corruption in the Murray-Darling Basin has recommended fundamental reforms to the system. Solutions suggested in the report focus on the state of New South Wales, and involve metered pumps and […]
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Dr Marta Yebra received the inaugural 2017 Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award An inaugural award recognising scientific achievements has been presented to Australian National University researcher Dr Marta Yebra, who also co-leads the ‘Observational Data’ theme in […]
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With help from satellites, artificial intelligence, and a painter born in the 1800s, a cartographer has created remarkable images of human-altered landscapes. The image above is what happens when you take a satellite photo of Earth and use […]
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NCI’s data and compute expertise have played an integral role in a recently launched website that provides easy access to a wide range of environmental data covering the entire country. The data, available on the Australia’s Environment in 2015 […]
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