2020

Webinar hosting:

  • Understanding biomass:  the importance of satellite-derived products and global collaboration (January)

Communications support for:

  • Geoscience Australia survey distribution (February)

  • COSPAR assembly, Sydney, August 2020 (February).

  • IOCCG summer lecture series (ocean colour) (January)

  • International Space University Adelaide conference (January)

  • SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon (January)

  • CSIRO-hosted Supersites and Biomass Validation Workshop, Canberra (January)

  • Copernicus Australasia Adelaide Workshop (January)

2019

  • AEO forum 2020 website launched (December); call for abstracts underway.

  • EOA Inc. was included as a member of the Australian Space Agency EO Technical Group.

  • New EO community newsletter launched (November).

  • Provision of satellite imagery & video to the Queensland Govt for state development promotional video at International conference (Sept)

  • Letter of support for 2022 Ocean Optics Conference bid by Go2Q Pty Ltd in collaboration with Destination Gold Coast (August).

  • Organisation and delivery of the First Cross-sectoral Australian EO data users workshop funded by Geoscience Australia (August).

  • Circulation of Radarsat-1 Survey on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency (June)

  • Release of the Queensland Parliamentary Committee’s Final Report into job creating opportunities in Queensland arising from the establishment of an Australian space industry and Deloitte’s Building Queensland's space economy (March)

  • Provided information for Australian Activities Report on behalf of the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group committee (March)

  • Remote sensing training in Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer on behalf of Geography and Spatial Sciences Discipline of the University of Tasmania (February).

  • Updated Satellite Map of Queensland on behalf of Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Earth-I (February).

  • Hosting NovaSAR-1 Data Products & Access Survey on behalf of CSIRO (January).

Webinar hosting:

  • Understanding fire in the Australian landscape: webinar presenting current research on EO research and applications for pre-, during and post fire monitoring and management (Dec 2019)

  • Copernicus Australasia Data Hub on behalf of Geoscience Australia and FrontierSI (September 2019)

  • Using Earth Observations to Monitor Water Budgets for River Basin Management on behalf of NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (March 2019))

Communications support for:

  • Communications support for the Qld Department of Science & Technology (recruitment)

  • Web page hosting and development for the Australian Sentinel-3 Validation Team for Ocean Colour

  • University of Tasmania – ecosystem monitoring using drones survey (November)

  • Queensland Government land use mapping team  information survey (October)

  • SmartSat CRC research scholarship promotion (October)

  • Australian Space Agency - promoting grants from the International Space Investment – Expand Capability program

  • ‘Industry Track’ & ‘Ideas Stage’ at GEO week 2019 on behalf of the Group on Earth Observations (August)

  • The Australian Forum for Operational Oceanography 2019 on behalf of the organising committee (July)

  • JOINT ROSES - TOSCA Call on Surface Water and Oceanography Topography (SWOT) Science Team 2020-2024 on behalf of NASA and CNES, Canadian Space Agency and the United Kingdom Space Agency (June)

  • Launch of the Smart Satellite Cooperative Research Centre (April)

  • Australian Surface Water & Ocean Topography Workshop 2019 on behalf of the organising committee (April/May)

  • Australian Rangelands Conference on behalf of the Australian Rangelands Society (March)

2018

  • Industry surveying and response for submission to the Queensland Space Industry Capability Survey hosted by Deloitte Access Economics Pty Ltd (Dec)

  • Industry surveying re USGS/NASA’s ‘Opportunity to highlight Australian capabilities and ideas - the future of Landsat’ (Nov)

  • Presentation by Stuart Phinn at the 19th October public hearing for the above enquiry (Oct)

  • Submission to the Review of Australia’s Space Industry Capability’s request for comments on the Issues Paper and its three main principles for the review, which will direct how the government invests in space activities, including earth observation. (Sept)

  • Presentation (by Stuart Phinn) to the 18th Australian Space Research Conference: ‘Linking Upstream and Downstream Using Australia's Earth Observation Capabilities’ (Sept)

  • Industry consultation on behalf of the Australian Space Agency (Aug)

  • Provision of earth observation images and case studies for the production of a publication series ‘Earth Observation: Data, Processing and Applications’, sponsored by CRCSI, GA, CSIRO and the Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC (July)

  • Release of the 2017 satellite image mosaic of Queensland by the Queensland Government's Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (June)

  • SmartSat CRC Industry Workshop on behalf of the CRC and CRCSI (June)

  • Response to the EO community re: 'Identify end-member and/or historical field validation data in support of Geoscience Australia’s validation strategy for the products generated by the Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Program' (June)

  • Formal EOA Response to the 2018-19 Budget including:

    • large scale and long-term investments in developing Australia’s Earth Observation capability

    • recommendations of the Space Industry Capability Review and Government Response

    • formation of an Australian Space Agency to be headed by Dr Megan Clark. (May)

Webinar hosting:

  • First Look webinar by Digital Earth Australia on behalf of FrontierSI (Aug)

Communications support for:

  • The Australian Space Agency’s draft Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (Dec)

  • CubeSat to Lift Veil on our Environment's Extremes on behalf of CSIRO (Dec)

  • Follow-on opportunities from the AU/EU Industry Mission including Trade Mission to France, European Space Week and Horizon2020 Earth Observation Funding (Oct)

  • Labsphere Hands-On Radiometric Calibration Workshops (Oct)

  • News of the successful launch of NovaSAR (Sept)

  • Conference ‘Unmanned Aircraft Systems for remote Sensing 2018’ (Aug)

  • European Space Agency Space App Camp (July)

  • Advancing Australia’s Earth Observation Imaging Radar Capacity - NovaSAR Open Seminars on behalf of CSIRO (June)

  • World of Drones congress (June)

  • Joint OzFlux and AsiaFlux conference (May)

  • Copernicus Data & Information Access Services (DIAS) implementation (May)

  • 2026 Spatial Industry Transformation and Growth Agenda (April)

  • Horizon 2020 info days Australia on behalf of the European Union (March)

  • Locate - GeoSmart Asia 18 Making of a Spatial Resolution (Feb)

  • National Earth Observation Conference 2018 on behalf of National Centre for Earth Observation, the Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation & the remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society (Feb)

  • Imaging Spectrometry Summer School Sydney on behalf of the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney, in conjunction with the German Aerospace Center, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and La Trobe University (Jan)

2017

  • Submission to the Review of Australia’s Space Industry Capability’s request for comments on the Issues Paper and its three main principles for the review, which will direct how the government invests in space activities, including earth observation (September)

  • Submission outlining Australia’s current EO research infrastructure and steps for how we could build this to more effective system as part of the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap and Investment Planning processes, 2017-2027. (September)

  • AEOCCG survey and collation of responses for submission to the USGS Landsat 10 project team’s request to gather requirements from the user community for Landsat 10's sensor, collection parameters and data distribution….. and to know requirements for specific applications as well as what is working well with Landsat 8. (May)

  • Promotion and organisation of a symposium and on-line discussion to ‘Contribute to the future of Earth Observation Research Infrastructure in Australia’ (May).

  • Hosted the Earth Observation Services Industry Mission in partnership with Geoscience Australia, the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies and the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (Feb)

Webinar hosting:

  • ‘Accessing AusCover Data’ presented by Peter Scarth (July)

  • 'CEOS Working Group on Information Systems & Services (WGISS) Technology Exploration Subgroup’ presented by Dr Robert Woodcock, Matt Paget, Peter Wang and Alex Held (June)

  • ‘CEOS Feasibility Study for Aquatic Ecosystem EO Mission’ presented by Professor Arnold Dekker, Satdek (May)

Communications support for:

  • Invitation to apply for 2018 Remote Sensing Travel Awards on behalf of Remote Sensing journal (Dec)

    International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium on behalf of the Organising Committee (Dec)

  • Releasing the results of the Earth Observation Services Industry Mission (at left) (April)

2016

Webinar hosting:

  • ‘Australian Geoscience Data Cube’ presented by Alexis McIntyre (Nov)

  • ‘Accessing AusCover Data’ presented by Peter Scarth (July)