Solutions / Industries / Government
Satellite imagery for government.
High-resolution imagery and elevation models for emergency management, environmental compliance, land administration and maritime awareness.
- Resolution
- 30cm – 10m
- Cadence
- Daily – Weekly
- Coverage
- AU · Global
- Alignment
- ARD
High-resolution optical imagery, processed and sharpened for individual-asset detail.
Priority tasking within hours for emergencies, through to scheduled monitoring of the same area.
From regional open-data coverage to street-level detail, through one platform and one integration.
Analysis-ready data aligned to Australian government standards and delivered into Digital Earth Australia workflows.
Agency domains
Built for every arm of government.
Federal, state and local - emergency services, environmental regulators, lands agencies, planners and maritime authorities, all served from one sovereign tasking pipeline.
Emergency management
Rapid bushfire, flood and cyclone mapping delivered straight into state and national operations rooms, with all-weather radar layered in when cloud or smoke blocks the optical view.
Environmental compliance
Illegal clearing, wetland disturbance, deforestation and biodiversity tracking for environmental regulators and Indigenous rangers.
Land administration
Cadastral boundary updates, topographic refresh and national mapping support, aligned to ICSM and GDA2020 standards.
Planning & infrastructure
Urban growth tracking, zoning compliance, critical-asset monitoring and corridor change detection for rail, road and water assets.
Border & maritime
Maritime domain awareness, dark-vessel detection and monitoring of illegal fishing across the exclusive economic zone.
In the field
Real captures across agency priorities.
High-resolution optical · 7 Mar 2025
Maritime · Auckland container port
High-resolution optical
Urban · Sydney planning & cadastre
High-resolution optical
Water resources · reservoir and dam
A single capture
What one image tells a remote operations team.
Land & tenure monitoring
Sub-metre optical resolves cadastral boundaries, land-use change and tenure encroachments across vast remote holdings - without a site visit.
Infrastructure & asset status
Roads, airstrips, water infrastructure and remote facilities tracked against baseline for condition assessment and maintenance planning.
Fire scar & vegetation
Post-fire scar extent, Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) recovery and fuel-load change detection for land managers, Indigenous rangers and biosecurity programs.
Baseline change
Time-series stacks detect new activity, illegal clearing and strategic-site development across areas where ground patrol is impractical.
Capabilities
Capabilities across agency missions
Emergency management & disaster response
Tasking within hours of a bushfire, flood or cyclone, with flood extent, fire scars and damage mapping delivered straight into operations rooms. Radar sees through smoke and cloud; high-resolution optical quantifies asset-level damage within 24 hours.
Environmental compliance & biodiversity
Illegal clearing, wetland disturbance, deforestation and biodiversity tracking for regulators and Indigenous land managers. Vegetation indices run across open-data archives and high-resolution stacks, with fire-scar time series supporting ranger and biosecurity programs.
Land administration, cadastral & topographic
Sub-metre refresh of cadastral boundaries, base maps and parcel change, aligned to ICSM, ANZLIC and GDA2020. Stereo-derived elevation models cover corridors and floodplains, giving lands agencies audit-ready, timestamped evidence.
Maritime domain awareness & border
High-resolution imagery and all-weather radar for maritime traffic monitoring, dark-vessel detection and illegal fishing across the EEZ. Daily sub-metre follow-up confirms vessel activity with timestamped, georeferenced evidence for compliance and enforcement.
Sovereign geospatial, end-to-end.
The problem
Government teams juggle emergency response, regulatory oversight, cadastral updates and maritime security across fragmented data and vendor silos. Evidence arrives late, at mixed resolutions, in formats that don’t stack across agencies or survive audit.
The Terrabit approach
Terrabit delivers analysis-ready imagery and elevation models through one sovereign platform, aligned to ANZLIC, ICSM, AFAC and AIDR standards. Everything lands in your GIS, Digital Earth Australia or sovereign cloud with audit-ready provenance.
Lifecycle
Monitor, assess, act - one geospatial fabric.
Three stages of the decision cycle. The same tasking pipeline answers each - from baseline monitoring to incident response to audit-ready archive.
01
Monitor
Federated commercial optical, multispectral and specialised data tasking across 20+ constellations - scheduled captures covering every asset and tenure in your remit.
- 20+ constellation federation
- Multi-decadal open-data archive
- Sub-daily priority tasking
- AU-based ingestion & delivery
02
Assess
Analysis-ready products at scale - colour-balanced, orthorectified to control, atmospherically corrected and pansharpened - with change detection, fire-scar, flood-extent, vegetation indices and damage.
- Change detection & classification
- Flood and fire-scar mapping
- Vegetation NDVI / EVI time-series
- Damage assessment polygons
03
Act
Evidence into your operations - ArcGIS, QGIS, Copernicus, Digital Earth Australia or sovereign cloud - with timestamped provenance your regulator, command centre and audit trail can stand behind.
- STAC, Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG), GeoPackage, WMS/WMTS
- Esri, QGIS, Databricks integration
- Audit-ready provenance chain
- ANZLIC, ICSM, AFAC alignment
Data & methods
Analysis-ready imagery, elevation, and specialised data.
Every capture arrives fully processed - colour-balanced, orthorectified, atmospherically corrected and pansharpened - so it slots straight into your workflow. Specialised data follows where the question needs it.
Imagery & analysis-ready processing
- Optical & multispectral · 30cm – 10m commercial optical with 4 – 8 band multispectral, plus 5 – 30m open-data archive for civil agencies
- Colour balancing · radiometric harmonisation across captures so the imagery reads consistently scene-to-scene
- Orthorectification to control · sub-pixel geometric accuracy from ground control - imagery snaps to your existing layers
- Pansharpening & mosaicking · panchromatic fused with multispectral colour, then mosaicked into seamless area coverage
- Atmospheric correction (ATCOR) · surface-reflectance products with cloud and shadow masks - ready for indices and analytics
Elevation & terrain
- Stereo & tri-stereo · Native digital surface model (DSM) generation for cadastral, corridor and floodplain design
- DEM, DSM & DTM · Digital surface (DSM) and digital terrain (DTM) models at 0.5 – 5m resolution, sub-metre vertical accuracy, GDA2020-aligned
- Flood modelling · DTMs for local council and state flood modelling
- 3D derivatives · Slope, aspect, hillshade for planning and cadastral analysis
- Cadence · Programme-aligned, on-demand or post-incident rapid DEM
Specialised data & delivery
- Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) & all-weather · All-weather radar for cloud-blocked, night-time or post-event coverage when optical cannot deliver
- Hyperspectral · Narrow-band material identification for vegetation, mineral and biosecurity questions
- Delivery formats · Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF, GeoPackage, ECW, STAC, WMS/WMTS - DEA ARD-aligned
- Integration · ArcGIS, QGIS, Databricks, Esri ArcGIS Online and Albatross - no conversion step
How it works
From brief to delivered product in one pipeline.
Same pipeline, same provenance - every agency, every mission.
Define your area & mission
Upload a shapefile, KML or GeoJSON for your region, tenure or maritime zone and tell us the mission - fire-scar mapping, cadastral refresh, maritime monitoring. We match sensors, cadence and classification path to it.Task or pull from archive
Our team searches archives across 20+ constellations and tasks the right sensor on the right day. Priority windows support emergency response; standing programs cover baseline monitoring.Process to analysis-ready products
Captures are orthorectified, corrected and pansharpened into analysis-ready imagery. From there we derive flood extent, fire scars, change polygons and detection layers, aligned to DEA, ICSM and ANZLIC reference frames.Deliver to your stack
Products land in ArcGIS, QGIS, Databricks, Digital Earth Australia or sovereign cloud, in the formats your platform expects - timestamped, attributable and audit-ready.
Platform
One tasking pipeline, every agency.
Coordinate imagery, elevation and specialised data tasking across departments, with centralised budgets, multi-user access and audit-ready archives.
Albatross is where every agency orders and manages satellite data. Submit tasking, approve budgets, track deliveries and keep a defensible audit trail, all in one platform aligned to ANZLIC and ICSM standards.
Products
The data products behind the page.
Products
Satellite Imagery
Analysis-ready optical and multispectral commercial imagery - colour-balanced, orthorectified, pansharpened and atmospherically corrected - for emergency response, ISR, environmental compliance, cadastral refresh and maritime domain awareness.
Products
Digital Elevation Models
DEM, DSM and DTM products from 0.5m to 5m resolution for flood modelling, cadastral work, corridor planning and ground baselines - GDA2020-aligned.
Put satellite imagery to work for your agency
Talk to the team about imagery, elevation and specialised data for your mission, delivered through one sovereign pipeline.