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Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia is Australia's national geoscience agency, responsible for government geoscience, spatial data, and Earth observation ground-segment services.^[1] In EO, it operates the Alice Springs Satellite Ground Station and supports regional reception and distribution of Landsat, NOAA, Terra/Aqua, Copernicus Sentinel, and Suomi-NPP data.^[2] GA also runs national satellite-data analysis services using long archives of Landsat and Sentinel observations for Australian government, industry, and community users.^[3] Its space role combines ground infrastructure, positioning, and data services: GA operates SouthPAN signal and positioning infrastructure, while the GEO spacecraft capacity is leased transponder capacity rather than a GA-owned or GA-operated satellite.^[2]^[4]

Sources

[1]About Geoscience Australiaagency doc2026-06-20
[2]Our satellite and ground station network - Geoscience Australiaagency doc2026-06-20
[3]Digital Earth Australia - Geoscience Australiaagency doc2026-06-20
[4]SouthPAN - Geoscience Australiaagency doc2026-06-20
[5]Geoscience Australia - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:geoscience-australia,
  title = {Geoscience Australia},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/geoscience-australia}
}