Australia and Earth Observation
Four times a day, a satellite – originally built to help Canada track icebergs – swings above Australia's oceans, its radar technology capturing images across a swathe 300km wide and 3000km long. The company that operates Australia's Coastwatch aircraft is about to try to persuade the federal government that this eye in the sky could help track everything from Patagonian toothfish pirates to people-smuggling boats.
