case study

Collaborative Synthetic Aperture Radar Solutions for Australia

Through funding from the UK Space Agency’s IPSP Programme, the Satellite Applications Catapult has been working alongside three leading Australian science and innovation groups – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) – to overcome challenges associated with SAR and to develop a sustainable, collaborative R&D programme initially based around the use of SAR data.

A number of collaborative projects focusing on forestry, water, and agriculture allowed all the partners to: demonstrate the feasibility of leveraging EO-derived services through a geospatial data infrastructure, explore the potential export of a robust, internationally comparable and sustainable National Forest Monitoring System, and to identify the barriers and opportunities to the development of an operational water resource monitoring system.

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