What Are Digital Earth Australia and Resourcing Australia's Prosperity?

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Digital Earth Australia and Resourcing Australia's Prosperity are two named programs featured on the Geoscience Australia website, alongside Positioning Australia. Both sit under Geoscience Australia's broader mission of applying science and technology to describe and understand the Earth for the benefit of Australia. Digital Earth Australia is listed as a quick link on the homepage, while Resourcing Australia's Prosperity appears as a program heading, and Positioning Australia is described as a program focused on satellite positioning technologies that support precise navigation and positioning in everyday life. If you want to understand how national geoscience insights are organised into programs, these three names are the main entry points on the site.

Digital Earth Australia

Digital Earth Australia appears on the Geoscience Australia homepage as a quick link under the site's main navigation area. The homepage lists it alongside other quick links such as Search data & publications, Recent earthquakes, Online tools, National location information, Community Safety, Organisational structure, Our people and careers, Graduate program, Visit our education centre, and Contact us.

Based on its placement and naming, Digital Earth Australia is a program area you can navigate to directly from the homepage. The available page evidence does not include a detailed description of its internal purpose beyond its listing as a quick link, so the most reliable way to learn what it covers is to follow that link from the homepage and read the program page itself.

Resourcing Australia's Prosperity

Resourcing Australia's Prosperity is listed as a program heading on the Geoscience Australia homepage, in the same group as Positioning Australia and Digital Earth Australia. The homepage presents Positioning Australia with a description: "Our position on the globe is essential to everyday life. Positioning allows us to locate ourselves in the world and get to where we want to go. Satellite positioning technologies have enabled the precise navigation and positioning we rely on at the touch of a button, from smartphones t..." — the excerpt is truncated at that point.

Resourcing Australia's Prosperity does not have an equivalent descriptive excerpt in the available page evidence. What the evidence does show is that the site groups these programs together as major national geoscience directions, and that related news items appear on the homepage under "Latest news and events."

How These Programs Relate to National Geoscience Insights

Geoscience Australia describes itself as Australia's pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation and the nation's trusted advisor on the geology and geography of Australia. Its stated approach is to apply science and technology to describe and understand the Earth for the benefit of Australia. The homepage heading frames this as "Shaping Australia's future through geoscience insights."

The three program areas — Positioning Australia, Digital Earth Australia, and Resourcing Australia's Prosperity — appear to be how that broad mission is organised into navigable themes on the website. Recent news items illustrate the kinds of outputs that sit under this umbrella:

Date Item Topic
24 September 2026 First Nations Advisory Group meets for the first time Governance and engagement
23 September 2026 Explore Australia's green iron opportunity through new StoryMap Interactive StoryMap on national geoscience and spatial information
18 September 2026 Delamerian project reveals new mineral and groundwater insights beneath south-eastern Australia Critical minerals, copper, gold, and groundwater
21 August 2026 Big ships, tiny margins: precise positioning in Port Phillip Bay Precise positioning in a real-world setting
13 August 2026 New global database advances critical minerals research Mineral chemistry database for research, government, and industry

The precise positioning story and the critical minerals stories show how program themes translate into published news and resources.

Where to Find Related News and StoryMaps

The homepage's "Latest news and events" section is the main place where program-related outputs appear, with a "More news and events" link to see additional items. Each news item includes a "Learn more" link.

For interactive, map-based material, the green iron StoryMap released on 23 September 2026 is described as bringing together national geoscience and spatial information about Australia's emerging green iron opportunity. This is an example of the StoryMap format used to present geoscience and spatial data interactively.

To go directly to the programs themselves, use the quick links and program headings on the homepage:

  • Digital Earth Australia — listed under Quick links
  • Resourcing Australia's Prosperity — listed as a program heading
  • Positioning Australia — listed as a program heading with a description of satellite positioning technologies

If you are looking for data, tools, or publications rather than program descriptions, the homepage also provides a "Search data & publications" quick link and an "Online tools" quick link.