DEA Images & Animations

DEA Coastlines and Landsat data image of 32 years of coastal change at Barubbra Island, Queensland.

DEA Intertidal Elevation (formerly known as National Intertidal Digital Elevation Model, or NIDEM) of Port Patterson, with a three-dimensional visualisation of Australia's intertidal sandy beaches and shores, tidal flats and rocky shores and reefs.

DEA Coastlines visualisation of 32 years of coastal erosion at Busselton, Western Australia.

DEA Coastlines reveals rates of coastal change around Cervantes, WA showing trends of coastal change over time in metres per year.

DEA Intertidal Elevation (also known as NIDEM) creates this visualisation of the elevation of the intertidal zone in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia.

An animation of DEA Mangrove Canopy Cover showing 30 years of mangrove expansion and dieback in the Northern Territory based on Landsat data. This derivative product reveals how these extraordinary trees may be responding to sea level rise, severe tropical cyclones, drought, climatic cycles, changing temperatures and large storm events.

DEA Surface Reflectance using false colour imagery - a multispectral image interpretation using short-wave infra-red, near infra-red and visible green light displayed as red, green, and blue respectively - of the Tiwi Islands off the coast of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

DEA Land Cover shows the contrasts in terrestrial vegetation, mangroves, estuaries and agriculture at the mouth of Queensland’s Fitzroy River.

Made with DEA Surface Reflectance, this image shows one of the first Landsat 8 images acquired over Australia. It highlights mangroves and estuarine eddies of the Cambridge Gulf, on the north coast of Western Australia's Kimberley region. What makes this image unique is that it combines different bands to display the variability in the land and water respectively. Water within the scene is represented using a combination of the narrow blue, green and red bands, and the land is represented using a combination of shortwave infra red, near infra red and green bands.

DEA Surface Reflectance imagery of flooding along the Gacoyne River in the desert of Western Australia. The image is shown in false colour highlighting pools forming between sand dunes, creating an opalescent sparkle in otherwise dry part of the continent.

A Sentinel-2 false colour image showing mineral variation in the MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory captured with a multispectral sensor using short-wave infrared to highlight the mineral variation. This image shows the Finke River in white cutting through the bottom centre of the image and Gosses Bluff in the bottom left - a meteorite impact crater.

DEA Surface Reflectance using Sentinel-2A imagary of Tungamah, north of Shepparton, Victoria, showing a true colour patchwork of fields at different levels of cropping with some dense and ready for harvest.

Animation of DEA Hotspots data for Orroral Valley fire that swept through biushland on 27 January, 2020 and destroyed 80% of the Namadgi National Park, the parkland itself making up nearly half of the entire ACT's land area.

DEA Surface Reflectance using Landsat 5 true colour 30m resolution to show an image of a scrub fire in the Northern Territory.

The smoke, flames and burn scars can be seen clearly in the image, which was captured on 31 December 2019 Sentinel-2 satellites. The large brownish areas depict burned vegetation and provide an idea of the size of the area affected by the fires – the brown ‘strip’ running through the image has a width of approximately 50 km and stretches for at least 100 km along the NSW south coast.

Sentinel-2 image side-by-side comparison of a bushfire at Yamba, NSW in September, 2019. The first image shows false colour including short-wave infrared, revealing the extent of the fire front. The second image is its true colour.

A Sentinel-2B image of the Orroral Valley fire in Namadgi National Park, ACT. This image uses false colour imagery which includes the short-wave infrared part of spectrum, showing the fire front in blazing white.

DEA Surface Reflectance shows agricultural fields along the Murray River using Landsat 8 data. This was captured in early 2019, during the most intense drought, with much of the continent at its hottest and driest since 1911.

DEA Land Cover shows how the land cover changes on an annual basis from 1988 to 2020. This animation of three decades of the land cover measures the changes in the vegetation types in Weipa, as the bauxite mine expands at the township on Western Cape York Peninsula.

DEA Land Cover depicts a bauxite mine in Western Australia, showing how the opencut process scars the earth as the ore is reaped from a shallow depth across the landscape, followed by the rehabilitation that helps return the landscape to its natural state.

DEA Land Cover shows an oblique view of Brisbane off the east coast, with the rich vegetation covering North Stradbroke Island in the foreground shown in green, while the red shows Brisbane's urban growth.

DEA Land Cover shows how the land cover changes on an annual basis from 1988 to 2020. This animation shows the growth of Perth over three decades. Each pixel represents a 25x25-metre square, with the red pixels showing dense urban areas.

DEA Land Cover shows how Canberra has grown over more than three decades where each pixel represents a 25x25-metre square. See how the suburbs in the north in what is now Gungahlin seem to appear out of nowhere in the 1990s.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast on 1 April 2017. Extending more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq km, it is the planet's biggest single structure made by living organisms, called coral polyps.

High tide false colour and low tide true colour Sentinel-2 composite image of part of the coast in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

DEA Surface Reflectance True Colour Sentinel-2 imagery of Murray River flood plume showing sediment that flushed through the river and into the Southern Ocean in January, 2023 following months of high rainfall.