OPERATIONAL APPLICATION OF THE FULL LANDSAT TIMESERIES TO SERVICE INDUSTRY IN THE AUSTRALIAN RANGELANDS

Significant progress has been made in the development of cover data and derived products based on linking extensive field data to the full MODIS, Landsat and Sentinel-2 archives across Australia. These have led to the development of biophysical products tailored for the Australian Rangelands that are now used for quantifying and monitoring grazing land condition

These grazing land management products include fractional cover, fractional ground cover and persistent green state and trend products, as well as burnt area mapping. They also underpin several rangeland-specific information products used to assess the state and trends in rangeland environments; bare and green cover deciles to report on the current and historical condition of the grazing resource; and custom anomaly products to compare past and current conditions against a known baseline period.

To facilitate the interrogation and summarisation of these massive earth observation data sets in an accessible producer friendly way, a series of time series enabled web mapping and customised web processing services were developed, enabling the full time series over any spatial extent to be retrieved in seconds. These tools are being used by landholders monitoring paddock conditions, organisations supporting land management initiatives in the rangelands and Great Barrier Reef catchments, and researchers developing tools to understand land condition, degradation and human health across all of Australia.