Data continuity and new opportunities for land monitoring

Monitoring of Australia´s land and water using remote sensing is being advanced through new policy and coordination at the national level, and by strategic science and collaborative projects, including investments in national research infrastructure, that are allowing robust calibration, large scale processing and time-series analysis of data in high performance computing environments. The benefits of these developments will be wide-spread, but will first be seen in large scale projects, such as the National Flood Risk Information Project, which will improve knowledge of flooding through analysis of the complete Landsat archive. Together, these developments position Australia for both improved and sustained land monitoring capabilities.