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Pan-sharpened satellite imagery of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands recorded using the QuickBird Digital Globe satellite, taken over the islands in November 2003. Each pixel represent 0.6m.

Includes copy of AGSO Record 1997/20

This ALOS processed data covers the area from Newcastle down to Batemen's Bay on the east coast of New South Wales for Geoscience Australia. The data has been delivered in a number of both tile and mosaic files. The data delivered to Geoscience Australia consists of 8 AVNIR scenes and 13 triplet PRISM scenes.

Includes copy of AGSO Record 1997/20

SPOTMaps are seamles, uniform, orthorectified territorial coverages produced with 2.5 metre colour imagery acquired by the SPOT 5 satellite. Spectral mode: Colour (3 bands) Location accuracy: 10 to 15 metres RMS, depending on the country Preprocessing level: Ortho (DEM used: Reference 3D or SRTM DTED-1 according to availability) Projection: UTM WGS 84 Format: GeoTiff

Includes copy of AGSO Record 1997/20

ESRIN, The European Space Agency's centre for Earth observation, and Australia's Federal Geoscience Agency, Geoscience Australia (GA), are undertaking parallel development of methodologies to enable management of Earth observation data collection, configuration and management. ESA has developed a common approach through a systematic collect, consolidate, configure and report workflow. GA are developing their solution with a view to manage rapid, frequent, iterative collection production. Both approaches, though quite differently implemented, show a great deal of convergence on aspects of managing large EO archives. This paper investigates the two projects, the drivers that led to their initiation and the scope of each project. We review the reasons that each organisation has embarked on their project and consider how these requirements have shaped the implemented systems and examine the benefits that the chosen solution provides. The underlying IT infrastructure have facilitated these ambitious projects, we consider the technologies used and how their rapid evolution will impact on these activities. The paper concludes by reviewing similarities and overlap that these two projects may have and considers if each project may benefit from adopting some aspect of the other project.

These images are clipped to represent the 1:100 000 map sheet they fall within as per the topographic series. For example, the image im2855.bil covers the same area as the Marble Bar (2855) topographic map. There are 51 individual sheets in total. The data was clipped from the larger mosaic of original Landsat scenes processed using: Directed Principal Components/Band Ratio Image: RGB pc2[4/3 : 5/7] : 5/4 : 1+ 7 Expressing relationships between: hydrosilicates/clay/carbonate: iron oxide : quartz

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