Copernicus Australasia: Australia's partnership to ensure European data for the Indo-Pacific
Channel: GeoscienceAustralia
Date: 2023-12-01

The Copernicus Australasia Regional Data Hub (the Hub) is Australasia’s gateway to Sentinel satellite data from Europe’s Copernicus Programme in our region, covering a quarter of the Earth’s surface. A free, open and trusted service that has shared over 25 Petabytes (PB) of Sentinel data since going fully operational in April 2018.

The Copernicus Programme is a multi-billion Euro programme spanning over 20+ years, financed and managed by the European Commission (EC). The Sentinel satellites that collect this data are built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).

A cooperative arrangement between the EC and the Commonwealth (represented by Geoscience Australia) to access and use Sentinel data for the delivery of innovative products and services for societal benefit created the opportunity for the Hub, which is enabled by technical agreements with ESA and EUMETSAT. A consortium of five Commonwealth and State government agency Partners fund the Hub.

After five years of successful operation, the Partners have agreed to continue for another five years. But with the global explosion of Earth observation data and new uses for it being discovered every day, how will the Hub meet the ever-growing challenges of delivering petabytes of data to users in our region?

0:00 - Introduction
3:33 - Seminar