The Australian Geoscience Data Cube: a global analysis platform for Earth observation data

The Australian Geoscience Data Cube has won the 2016 Content Platform of the Year category at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards.

The awards recognise significant contributions made by champions of change within the global geospatial industry and were presented during the 2017 Geospatial World Forum held in Hyderabad, India.


The Data Cube was developed by Geoscience Australia in partnership with the CSIRO and the National Computational Infrastructure at the Australian National University, and is a world-leading data analysis system for satellite and other Earth observation data.


Visit www.datacube.org.au to find out more including the technical specifications, and learn how you can develop your own Data Cube and become part of the collective.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2017-01-18T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2017-01-20T11:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/103840

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia
Purpose

Backdrop for presentation of Geospatial Worls Leadership Awards

Status
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Function
Offline access
Theme

  • Geoscience Australia

Keywords

  • Datacube

  • earth observation data

  • satellite data

  • geospatial

  • mapping data

  • open source

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

YouTube link

YouTube link

OnLine resource

Download the Movie (mp4)

Download the Movie (mp4)

Distribution format

  • mp4

Resource lineage

Statement

Not supplied

Hierarchy level
Product

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/3d59eda2-1309-448f-81d3-4f80a44d55bb

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Outreach / Teaching

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/103840

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3d59eda2-1309-448f-81d3-4f80a44d55bb

Date info (Creation)
2025-05-08T02:20:55.819Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-05-07T06:41:12.925Z
Date info (Creation)
2017-01-18T13:36:26
Date info (Revision)
2025-05-08T02:20:55.818Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

Datacube Geoscience Australia earth observation data geospatial mapping data open source satellite data
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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Associated resources

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