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.
NASA PACE Launch Successful
NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission (PACE) will extend and improve NASA's over 20-year record of satellite observations of global ocean biology, aerosols, and clouds.
PACE will make climate-quality global measurements that are essential for understanding ocean biology, biogeochemistry, ecology, aerosols, and cloud properties. Its data will be used to determine the role of the ocean and atmosphere in global biogeochemical cycling, ocean ecology, and how perturbations to Earth's energy balance affect – and are affected by – climate change.
With advanced global remote sensing capabilities PACE is expected to provide high-quality observations that will contribute substantially to basic research and applications and extend the current time series of climate-relevant data to enable detection of long-term trends.
Check out the Applications Capability Matrix to learn about the questions being addressed by PACE Early Adopters.