VOL

NO

DATE

NOTES

CONTENTS

ALS Newsletter

1

1

NOV 80

 

ALS open

Landsat Bulletin

MSS late line start

 

1

2

APR 81

 

Flood of orders

Landsat 2 status

ALS photo formats

 

1

3

AUG 81

 

Landsat 2 status

Micro image catalogue

 

 

 

NOV 81

FLYER

Orange field day

 

2

1

MAR 82

 

Landsat 2 in trouble

Spacecraft status

Landsat D

 

2

2

NOV 82

 

Landsat 4 issue

SPOT

 

3

1

SEP 83

 

Landsat-4 Power Rationed for MSS

Operations    

New Ground Facilities
U.S. Evaluation of Private Control for Civil Remote Sensing    

News from DAF    
Landsat Images Produced from Colour Negative Masters    

New Product Annotation     
Improved Framing Accuracy with Landsat-4     

Thematic Mapper Tests Point to Improved Image Analysis  

Radiometric Calibration      

 

3

2

APR 84

 

Landsat 5 Launch 

ACRES Under New Management

LGSOWG Tape Format

MOMS Test   

ISPRS Conference

Landsat '84   

ALS Photo Imagery     

Earth Science Information  

Reference Centres      

Natmap News      

SIR-B Project

 

3

3

DEC 84

 

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Landsat News – Privatisation / Commercialisation

ALS News – Upgrade study

Natmap News

Australian News

Canada

USA

Europe

Italy

UK

Soviet Space Technology Helps Agriculture

The ALS and its Staff

NSCA

Satellites aid fish-finding in WA

Framing Accuracy

Fourier filtering of Landsat 4 noise

Landsat '84 Conference

 

3

4

NOV 85

 

Our First Colour Issue

Landsat Commercialisation Goes Ahead

SPOT-1 Launch

The ALS Precision Production System (PPS)

Coherent Noise Comparison

Spacecraft Status

The Good News and The Bad News

Retirement: Mr W  "Bill" Kempees

Madigan Report

Tasmania to get Orroral Valley Antenna

CSIRO Space Research

Australian Joint Venture with NASA

The Australian Liaison Committee on Remote Sensing Satellite (ALCORSS)

Landsat to Assist in Antarctic Satellite Data Link

Reflight for Metric Camera

Landsat World Wide Status

Radarsat Update

Spot 3 and 4 definition studies underway

NOAA Commemorates 25 Years of Earth Observation

NASA Moves Ahead with Space Station

Remote Sensing Application Centre (RSAC) Perth, W A

The University of New South Wales Centre for Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Activities in the Australian Survey Office

Shuttle Imaging Radar (Sir-B) Over Australia Colin J  Simpson

Remote Sensing — Current Status and Applications

Landsat Products

 

 

3

5

SEP 86

 

Australian Centre for Remote Sensing

ALS Upgrade - $15M announced

SPOT Data Distribution in Australia

US/Australia Joint Scanner Project

Development of Imaging Spectrometer

Joint USA/Australian Workshop on

Arid Land Remote Sensing in Queensland

Brian Bursts onto World Market

EOSAT Poised To Come Up With

New Landsat System

MOS-1 Set For Launch in January 1987

SPOT Program Modified

Landsat Interpretation at

the Division of National Mapping

International Earth Observing System

SPOT - A New Generation in Remote Sensing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACRES NEWS

1

1

JUN 87

 

Floppy disk production at ACRES

ACRES receives 4-star award

SPOT data distribution and news

New SPOT products – "Images a la carte"

In Memoriam – Tony Chiles

ACRES operational contract changed to AWA

Sixth birthday for Landsat-4

Cloud free Tassie

Major Japan-Australian space agreement

AVHRR receiving facilities for Perth and Townsville

Australian Space Board lets ERS-1 contract,

CSIRO releases version 4 of DISIMP image processing and graphics package

South Australia wins $6 million Ethiopian contract

Adelaide University sets up remote sensing steering committee

New AVHRR channel for NOAA K-M

China appoints EOSAT as world wide distributor

Remote Sensing in the Pacific Islands

NASA issues space station RFPs

Canadian $725 million Radarsat program receives go-ahead,

ACRES upgrade - $11M over 3yrs MDA

ERS-1 proposal for Australia and New Zealand

ACRES UPDATE

1

2

OCT 88

 

ACRES shut down

SPOT-1

Landsat 6

ACRES upgrade

SPOT 4 agreement signed

ACRES NEWS

2

1

MAR 89

 

Landsat Funding: An Update

Upgrade Status

Ted Donnell

Satellite Update

Spot Prices

Spot News

User Services News

Geological Photo-Interpretation Workshop

Distributors And Reference Centres

Online '89 Conference

Official Opening - Acres Bruce Facility

Disimp Version 4.1

Microbrian Offer

New Photolab Manager

New Promotions Officer

 

2

2

DEC 89

 

Carl McMaster - The New Remote Sensing Unit Manager

1990 Price Review

Antenna Problems Solved

ACRES Distributor and Reference Centre Workshop

Manager's Message

Steve Dovey Leaves for the Philippines

SPOT of the Antarctic

Don Gray - Forty Years Of Public Service

ACRES Thematic Mapper Products Processing Options

ACRES Image Writing Service

Robert Denize Is Back

LTWG Report

Second MOMO Meeting Report

John Horn Visits Eros Data Center

Photolab News

Computer Lab News

Spot Distributors' Training Course

The National Agricul­tural and Resources Outlook Conference

User Services News

Geoimage becomes an ACRES Distributor

Resource Industry Associates, another addition to the ACRES Network

Mapping And Monitor­ing Technology ACRES Townsville, Qld, Distributor

Update On The 5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference

 

3

1

 

NEVER

PRINTED

 

3

2

JUN 90

 

DAF Upgrade & SOSS

Manager's Message

New Director Appointed
5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference
ACRES Thematic Mapper Information
ACRES New Marketing and Sales Section

Change to Landsat TM Microfiche      

Conference Reports    

ACRES Applications News (MOVE)

ACRES Administration  

ACRES Computer Centre News  
New Software Release ‑ ER Mapper

ACRES Photolab News  
Enlarged Colour Transparencies

ESCAP/UNDP Project

 

3

3

SEP 90

 

DAF Opened

Managers Message

From the Directors Desk

5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference Update

20 LGSOWG

Marketing and Sales Report

Applications News

Photolab News

Conference Reports

New Contractor at ACRES

 

3

4

DEC 90

 

SIS

Managers Message

Marketing and Sales Distributor & Reference Centres

Price Review

Geographic Information Systems

Acres SPOT Microfiche

5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference

ERS1 SAR Project  & FDP

Production News

Optronics Imagewriters

Customer image writing

MSS Photographic Products

Durst Enlarger

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACRES UPDATE

 

1

DEC 91

 

Managers Message

 

 

2

MAR92

 

ERS & JERS  Status

Sticky tape

Exabyte products

Landsat 6

 

 

3

 

NEVER

PUBLISHED

 

 

 

4

JAN93

 

SAR Processor Delivered

JERS Agreement Signed

SPOT News

ACRES Organization Changed

Satellite Image Mapping

CREO delivered

 

 

5

APR93

 

ACRES Staff and Organisation News

MDA on site – LS6 ETM upgrade

Satellite Imagery for Global Forest Assessment

SPOT News

New Regolith Mapping Technique

News from the Alice

Calendar

 

 

6

JUL 93

 

Raster/Vector Integrated GIS

ENCOM joins ACRES team

Eliminating geometric distortions

New WA Centre opens

 

 

7

OCT 93

 

LS6 lost

MSS processor retired

LANDSAT 21 years old

Graziers getting smart

Fertiliser requirements by satellite

Cities of the world from space

 

 

8

FEB 94

 

Detecting salt lands in Victoria

Satellite imagery for environmental health

CD ROM product

New system benefits

ACRES distributes Thai data

New South African satellite

 

 

9

JUL 94

 

Landsat’s future decided

Why microwaves

New manager - PT

Radarsat

JERS SAR results

 

 

10

FEB 95

 

Indonesia special

Variable window products

Digital catalogue

 

 

11

MAY 95

 

Customer Service Guarantee

ACRES Quality Accredited

MMX testing

ERS 2

 

 

12

NOV 95

 

1994/95 sales

ACRES digital catalogue

New MSS prices

WWW upgrade

TERSS DTU

BAEA contractor

MMX implemented

 

 

13

MAR 96

 

ACRES digital catalogue goes live

RADARSAT

MDA on site

SAR products – FDP

 

 

14

SEP 96

 

RADARSAT Sub-distributors

TERSS

Budget affirmation

TQM audit

SPOTprogramming fee

 

 

15

MAR 97

 

ERS SAR processing levels

RESURS satellite data

 

 

16

MAR 98

 

New Geodentric datum

A short history of Landsat

 

 

17

JUL 98

 

RADARSAT certification

Geodata SPOT-Lite

Catalogue

 

 

18

JUN 99

 

Landsat 7 in orbit.

ACRES to offer enhanced Landsat 7 imagery.

New $2 million optical data processor

About the new processing system.

Progress on the DAF upgrade

ASDAMS to manage satellite data acquisition and programming.

Upgrade to digital catalogue.

Upgrade to ACRES SAR processing capability

RADARSAT certification.

Shuttle mission to test DEMs for ACRES

SPOT 5 to carry enhanced stereoviewing capability

RESURS-01 #4 stops operating.

NASDA terminates JERS satellite operations

GEODATA SPOT-LITE is now online

ACRES annual distributors meeting.
RADARSAT distributors meet.

 

 

19

AUG 99

 

LANDSAT 7 PRODUCTS

History of Landsat launches Product description

Upcoming remote sensing satellites

ACRES new simplified processing options

ETM+ on board Landsat 7

How Landsat data is used

Successful Landsat 7 underfly manoeuvre

Radarsat Operations Technical Interchange Working Group (OTIWG)

SAR upgrade is operational

ASEAN EXPERTS MEET IN HANOI

ACRES successfully acquires SPOT 4 data

SPOT-LITE update

TERSS upgraded

Same day cataloguing for acquisitions

 

 

20

DEC 99

 

ACRES releases SPOT 4 products

SPOT 4 sensors

SPOT 4 useful for agriculture and geology

New features for GEODATA SPOT-LITE

Landsat 7 ETM+ image archive growing

Celebrating 20 years

Alice Springs DAF - 20 years in the bush Managing the first 20 years

The new millennium - ACRES

SPOT and ESA groundstations

LGSOWG

 

 

21

JUL 00

 

Terra — Observing the Earth

MODIS technical specifications

ACRES successfully acquires MODIS

New Millennium satellite — EO-1

EO-1 project scientist visits ACRES

ACRES to operate ALOS node

SRTM and the first Australian 3D image

ERS 1 attitude control system fails

ACRES wins RADARSAT Y2K award

Upcoming remote sensing satellites

Action Agenda for spatial info industry

ACRES Director - ISR 2000 Award

New Catalogue includes RRP and GST

AGRECON wins Technology award

LANDSAT 5 and 7 update

ACRES new archive print product

ACRES new-look digital catalogue

Remote sensing and emergency management Queensland

WA agencies map floods

First Australian meeting of groundstation operators

First ALOS inter-agency meeting

ACRES at the Remote Sensing Conference

AUSLIG Spatial Data Forum

10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference

 

 

22

DEC 00

 

ACRES archive a valuable resource

Projects using ACRES archive

Trends for the future – 10th ARS&P Conference

Second X Band antenna at Alice Springs

ACRES high speed communication link

ACRES awards contract to BAE

Report on remote sensing industry

Upgrade to SAR processor provides “Sea” Look Up Table

SPOT products, etc

Landsat 7 update

Upcoming remote sensing satellites Australia’s Oil Spill Response Atlas

Infrared thermal band on MODIS ideal for detecting forest fires

ACRES 1999/2000 sales report

Spatial Data Forums a success

Staff changes

SPOT Asia Pacific sales network seminar

 

 

23

 

NEVER

PUBLISHED

 

 

 

24

JUL 01

 

ACRES new STAR Service

Second antenna on track at Alice Springs

ACRES role in testing of EO1

Validation team uses LS 7 image to make

exciting discovery

Action Agenda develops vision for industry Priority Processing Service

Fees scrapped for future acquisitions

SPOT Imaging opens in Canberra Landsat 7 update

Launch schedule for new remote sensing satellites

MODIS Update

NOAA acquisitions to resume by September

RASTER 250K keeps on getting better Improved DEM suitable for engineers, scientists and planners

Second ALOS inter-agency meeting in Canberra

LTWG Meeting #9

SOS responding to customers’ needs

New ACRES Manager Account

Manager Product Manager

 

 

25

DEC 01

 

Government widens access to spatial data

ASIBA acting on Agenda

Strong national spatial agency created

$2m government grant for spatial information project

Sensing something special at the National Museum of Australia

Speedy delivery of satellite imagery benefits agriculture industry

New antennae to upgrade services from Alice Springs

Best practice software delivers improved NOAA products

Prices and copyright now on par for Landsat data

ERIC wins research award

New MODIS products now available

Planning continues despite ALOS launch delay

Australian landcover as never seen before

Off-the-shelf Landsat 7 images

Project to improve orthocorrected image products

Launch schedule for new remote sensing satellites

Another year possible for EO-1

ACRES Staff changes

ACRES 2000–2001 sales report

Taking over from Landsat 7

 

 

26

SEP 02

 

Manager’s Message

Extra antenna expands Australia’s data acquisition capabilities

All systems go for new NOAA antenna

Landsat products more accessible and cost effective

Plans for future Landsat data continue to take shape

Dedicated NOAA antenna widens range of AVHRR products

Data from extended EO-1 mission

Get more on DVD

Low priced Landsat 7 single scenes from the Y2K mosaic

Orthocorrected products show improved locational accuracy

Hyperspectral workshop

Launch schedule for new remote sensing satellites

Remote sensing in the 21 st Century

Staff changes