Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery of Queensland at various resolutions is available online or by subscription.

Satellite imagery acquired is either openly available or has been procured from commercial providers and access is restricted under licence agreements.

High-resolution satellite imagery

The Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (DNRMMRRD) maintains general reference imagery captured by commercial satellites under whole-of-government licensing arrangements. Statewide imagery coverage was last acquired in 2018 from the DMC3 TripleSat constellation at 80cm resolution.

The most recently captured high-resolution satellite imagery can be viewed on the Queensland Globe.

Earlier data is available to select agencies through the spatial imagery service program. Previous statewide captures including DMC3 TripleSat 80cm during 2016 and 2017, SPOT 1.5m during 2013–14 and SPOT 2.5m during 2012 are also available to state and local government agencies.

QSat imagery

Subscription access

Through an agreement with Planet Labs PBC—the operator of the world's largest constellation of Earth-observation satellites—we have access to a near daily feed of high-resolution satellite images covering the whole of Queensland.

Select agencies can access the imagery feed through the spatial imagery service program.

Free access

Under an agreement with Planet Labs, you can access a high-resolution mosaic of Queensland for free under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence (CC BY-SA).

This mosaic comprises a 2.4m resolution ortho-rectified visual mosaic product, composed of the highest quality natural colour (RGB) planet imagery acquired between 1 July 2017 and 30 September 2017.

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Natural disaster

Past natural disaster imagery can be used to improve economic and community resilience to extreme weather events. Our program of disaster imagery helps with recovery activities and future planning.

Natural disaster imagery, including flood imagery where captured, are available on the list of public web services, to connect to using a GIS.

If data licensing allows, natural disaster imagery is made available to view in the Queensland Globe using the Past Imagery Tool.

Landsat imagery

Landsat satellite data is now openly available through the United States Geological Survey's EarthExplorer.

The Queensland Government's archive collection of Landsat satellite imagery is managed on behalf of the DNRMMRRD by the Remote Sensing Centre, Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.

Government remote sensing products produced from Landsat satellite imagery for statewide monitoring programs can be downloaded from the QSpatial data portal.

Sentinel

The Queensland Government is part of the Copernicus Australia consortium, which supports the sharing of data collected from the European Space Agency's Sentinel satellites.

Data from the Sentinel satellites is freely available to research, industry, government and public users. Visit Copernicus Australia for details on how to access.

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