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Observing Australian natural hazards through satellite imagery - Classroom activities using Digital Earth Australia (DEA)

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This document steps teachers and students through accessing and using satellite data on the Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Portal, with a particular focus on bushfires and flood events. The document is intended to be followed with the DEA portal open so teachers and students can explore the data using the links provided in the guide. The document also provides brief background information on how spectral satellites operate and how various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum can deliver useful data.

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Title Observing Australian natural hazards through satellite imagery - Classroom activities using Digital Earth Australia (DEA)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/68e8a916-d235-4596-94ea-abb419959fba
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Observing Australian natural hazards through satellite imagery - Classroom activities using Digital Earth Australia (DEA)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/observing-australian-natural-hazards-through-satellite-imagery-classroom-activities-using-digit