Geoscience Australia

The upgraded Alice Springs antenna was commissioned by Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Matt Canavan at a ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra on 9 November 2016.

The Australian Government has invested more than $4 million to upgrade the Alice Springs antenna, securing Australia’s access to essential satellite data into the future.

The antenna enables Geoscience Australia to collect data from a number of Earth monitoring satellites, including Landsat 7 and 8, which provide information to detect changes in land use over time and other useful environmental data. This data is used by government, industry, education and research, contributing billions of dollars to the Australian economy.

The upgrade allows the US Geological Survey (USGS) Mission Operation Centre located at NASA to send command and control signals to current and future Landsat satellites via the facility at Alice Springs, as well as receive status updates on a satellite’s position and ‘state of health’.

Geoscience Australia

The upgraded Alice Springs antenna was commissioned by Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Matt Canavan at a ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra on 9 November 2016.

The Australian Government has invested more than $4 million to upgrade the Alice Springs antenna, securing Australia’s access to essential satellite data into the future.

The antenna enables Geoscience Australia to collect data from a number of Earth monitoring satellites, including Landsat 7 and 8, which provide information to detect changes in land use over time and other useful environmental data. This data is used by government, industry, education and research, contributing billions of dollars to the Australian economy.

The upgrade allows the US Geological Survey (USGS) Mission Operation Centre located at NASA to send command and control signals to current and future Landsat satellites via the facility at Alice Springs, as well as receive status updates on a satellite’s position and ‘state of health’.

Improvement in tsunami warning as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Great artesian basin.

Australia interactive flood map.
Blue is water always.
Yellow is water sometimes.
Red is infrequent flooding.

http://www.ga.gov.au/interactive-maps/#/theme/water/map/wofs

Zoom in. It’s rather spectacular, the flooding around the Queensland/South Australia border.

mollwollfumble said:

Australia interactive flood map.
Blue is water always.
Yellow is water sometimes.
Red is infrequent flooding.

http://www.ga.gov.au/interactive-maps/#/theme/water/map/wofs

Zoom in. It’s rather spectacular, the flooding around the Queensland/South Australia border.

Love these sorts of sites.

satellite tracking station?
been for look through that

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

Australia interactive flood map.
Blue is water always.
Yellow is water sometimes.
Red is infrequent flooding.

http://www.ga.gov.au/interactive-maps/#/theme/water/map/wofs

Zoom in. It’s rather spectacular, the flooding around the Queensland/South Australia border.

Love these sorts of sites.

All the rivers of southern NT, the Finke, Sandover, Todd, Hay, Plenty, Hugh, are all noticeably absent from this website. Perhaps they don’t exist? TIC. Ditto all the creeks flowing into Lake Eyre from the west.

It’s images like this one, from Lake Torrens to Fraser Island, that really make me wonder about how one defines a “river”.

PS. The Recherche Archipelago off Esperance shows up beautifully on this website.