{"id":52802,"date":"2023-09-07T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iceye-to-supply-flood-and-bushfire-data-to-australian-government\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:21:06","slug":"iceye-to-supply-flood-and-bushfire-data-to-australian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iceye-to-supply-flood-and-bushfire-data-to-australian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceye to Supply Flood and Bushfire Data to Australian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government signed a deal with <b>Iceye<\/b> for flood and bushfire hazard data across the country. The agreement for access to Iceye\u2019s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery will help Australia deal with the impact of flood and bushfire and the nation\u2019s disaster response. Australia estimates that flood and bushfire events caused a $5 billion economic impact for the nation last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The flood and bushfire data will be made available to agencies via ArcGIS, the mapping and analytics software developed by Esri. The Flood Insights product details structure-level flood extent and depth information, and the Bushfire Insights product can deliver property damage assessments in near real-time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australia has been a customer of Iceye\u2019s and has used the company\u2019s Flood Insights product since October 2022. To date, Iceye has analyzed 18 large-scale flood events across Australia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the true impact of floods and bushfires quickly, can transform response and improve recovery outcomes for survivors. This partnership is about bringing that transformation to federal, state, and territory-level agencies across Australia,\u201d commented Andy Read, global head of Government Solutions for Iceye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government signed a deal with Iceye for flood and bushfire hazard data across the country. The agreement for access to Iceye\u2019s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery will help Australia deal with the impact of flood and bushfire and the nation\u2019s disaster response. Australia estimates that flood and bushfire events caused a $5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}